On today’s video, I want to go over what emotional eating is and what it really takes to heal your emotional eating.

It's important for you to know, that you are not broken.  I work with really smart and successful women every day who come to me and say, “Marna, I’m so smart. I’m so successful. Why can’t I figure this emotional eating thing out?”

You’ve got to know, that healing struggling with emotional eating is not an intellectual issue,  but rather, an emotional issue. Yes, you’re smart.  Yes, you’re wise but there is a part of you that has tied feeling safe, loved,  happy or numbed out with food.

You don't consciously link up food to an emotional need – you unconsciously created this connection with food. So the key to fixing emotional eating is breaking your eating apart to understand it’s purpose and power in your life and find new ways to utilize this power in your life.

My definition of Emotional Eating – Consciously or unconsciously combining food to an emotion. The most common reasons why I see women struggle with emotional eating is to help them  relax and numb out, avoid boredom, celebrate, deal with stress, and procrastinate.

 

 

You probably know if you’re an emotional eater, but let’s look at how you fix it. Can anything really be done? Well the good news is YES my love. YES you can!

The key to long-term success and healing your emotional eating is learning how to separate your emotional world from your eating world.

The first way I help my clients is to help them develop a “normal relationship” with food by having them learn the foundational tools to eating. In essence going back to elementary school and learning HOW to eat again. This foundational eating consists of listening to your hunger and satiation cues.

When I was 30 pounds heavier, I was tying food to everything – happiness, sadness, avoidance, etc.

So the first step I had to go through was learning what was going on inside my body. What does hunger feel like, what does satiation feel like. From that place I could then say “Oh, I’m not hungry, but I'm having a massive desire to eat. Only from knowing that I wasn't hungry, could I decipher that something emotional was going on.

Breaking free from emotional eating is breaking your life apart and seeing how you’re using food and why. What is your life craving from you that you're not giving it? What do you need from live that you're craving? From that place of awareness, you can begin to feel your feelings and give yourself what you REALLY need from your life, from you work, from those people around you, etc. Only then can you disconnect the emotional eating part of your life to find freedom.

Is it comfortable? Not always. Especially if you're not used to feeling your feelings. But I promise you, it gets easier.

The most powerful thing you can do right now in trying to losing weight is to stop dieting and start healing your emotional eating. When you emotionally eat, you put so many hundreds or thousands of unnecessary calories into your body and most of these calories get stored as fat.

Remember, you are not broken. The key is separating your emotional hunger from your physical hunger. You deserve to feel free from the shackles of emotional eating.