Have you ever found yourself in the kitchen digging through your pantry looking for something to eat right after you have just eaten because you have a craving or a taste for something but you are not quite sure what you want?

Or maybe you have decided to lose a little weight and you know what portion size you should be eating but you just can’t make yourself stop at the right time?

These are both subtle indicators that you might be an emotional eater.

We have been taught by our culture that it’s okay and sometimes expected that we eat when we are stressed out, overwhelmed, feeling heartbreak, or celebrating and it feels like it’s just part of who we are.

Unfortunately, emotional eating, stress eating, and binge eating are just a few ways that can lead to an unhealthy relationship with food.

Food is required for survival. The main purpose of eating is to fuel our body.

As food quality and plentiful supply have increased over the generations, so has our attachment to food.

Our culture encourages mixing food with emotions.

Celebrations almost always have food,

when we are sad, we eat,

we connect with family and friends over food,

we break bread together, and almost every major event, from birthdays to funerals, involves food.

We have normalized emotional eating so that you might not even be aware it’s happening.

Here are 4 signs for you to explore that are typically related to emotional eating:

1. You Seek comfort through food

2. It’s hard to stop eating when trying to lose weight

3. Even when full, you are always thinking about food

4. You use emotionally charged words to describe food like sinful, craving, indulgent, guilty pleasure

Which one has you thinking the most?

I am definitely all about the first one because I seek comfort in food, especially when I feel anxious.

It wasn’t until I started to make connections between food and my feelings that I could understand why I was overeating.

This understanding allowed me to make different choices with food because I was able to figure out what I was feeling and take better care of my emotions so that I didn’t need food to fill that space.

It is from this journey that Scale the Limit has grown. While our food program is highly effective for weight loss, the most important part of the program is the emotional exploration and exercises.

Real change is found beyond the food at a deeper level, which is what we are all about.

If you are ready to go deeper with yourself and create lasting change, I invite you to join us now. CLICK HERE to learn more.

Enjoy your week!

Talk Soon,

Karen

Karen Que

Founder/CEO

Scale the Limit LLC

www.scalethelimit.com