Episode 28: Ditch the Bad Habit of Emotional Eating

Eating in response to feelings of frustration, loneliness, sadness, fear, or boredom – or emotional eating - is an unhealthy habit in which far too many of us engage. Maintaining weight loss isn’t easy to begin with, but if you regularly engage in mindless, emotional eating, regain will be an inevitability. When we engage in emotional eating, we are unlikely to be making a mad dash to the produce department, sprinting for the carrots and celery. Instead, when we want to dull the unpleasant ache of painful emotions, we gravitate toward those all-too familiar, and aptly named… comfort foods…. You know, the ooey, gooey confections from the bakery, the cold rich smoothness found in tubs of ice cream, or the soft fluffy mashed potatoes drowning in gravy. Too often when people struggle with emotional eating and the increase in weight accompanying that emotional eating, they seek a new “diet” of some sort. That’s not what they need! They need skills for dealing with those unpleasant emotions! Listen in and learn some good skills that are a whole lot more effective than any fad diet for breaking the unhealthy habit of emotional eating!

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