EMOTIONAL EATING? HERE’S HOW YOU CAN CHANGE

Elios Stone

You’ve probably heard so much about the impact of having “bad” relationships with food and the effect it can have on your life. Maybe you have experienced it yourself. Most of the “food” that you find on supermarket shelves isn’t food at all, and certainly is not nourishing.

When doing my degree in Nutrition in the early 2000s I learned how food is manipulated. Foods are made addictive! Do you use food to change your mood?

Emotional eating isn’t satisfying, it’s self-soothing. I had unhealthy rituals around food. Eating: takeaways, crisps, chocolate, you name it. All this to avoid certain emotions. Do you use food for emotional pleasure or to avoid certain feelings?

self-sabotage which draw you into eating things you know aren’t good for you.

The gut-mind has immense power. But eating habits are often influenced by subconscious elements. If you follow these feelings without first transforming learned behaviours it leads to emotional eating. How can you transform your emotional eating patterns?

Simple little steps that transform destructive eating patterns:

1 Eat without distraction. Turn off the TV and all devices.

2. Take a moment to feel grateful for the food before you eat.

3 Eat protein and fats first, then any “sweet” stuff afterwards. (Reduces dopamine response).

That’s a start. But, by deepening your level of self-inquiry, you can change your behaviours, release old patterns and emotional eating. Bringing balance to your relationship with food and to your life.

By utilising somatic breathwork and introspection your root patterns change forever. Then, the feedback from your body gets clearer and you can eat consciously and guilt-free.

Dieting can work in the short term, but doesn’t have medium or long-term benefits. The opposite is true. Yo-yo dieting is destructive and damaging to health. The Journal of Clinical nutrition states that after 1 year, only 6% of people maintained weight loss.

Failure can leave you feeling shame and regret. Even with the knowledge of how to eat optimally you can’t escape the patterns of emotional eating. You can’t go “cold turkey” on food addiction, without relapsing. It is extremely common to experience uncontrollable feelings of

“Feeling connected to my body has shown me I can stay in the moment. Not let my mind take over and to try to control situations. I can feel what I'm feeling, accept it and respond rather than react. This also seems to bring more awareness of my thoughts surrounding addiction, giving me a choice I didn’t know was available.” A, Southsea

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