Are You Using Food as a Coping Mechanism?
Diet Culture Rebel Podcast
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Emotional Eating Is a Response to Dieting
i want you to think about that our natural response as humans, if we were to be non dieters, would be to lose our appetite when we're going through difficult emotions. But with chronic dieters, though, something contrary happens. Negative emotions provoke an increased appetite and desire to eat. Dieters develop the response opposite to what we see in intuitive eaters. i'm like a christie harrison fan girl. And she does a great job at explaining how dieting can a can trigger and esculate emotional eating.
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