Tuesday Tip: Emotional Eating 🍫
You might think you just need more willpower to stop emotional eating or that once you lose the weight, everything will click into place. The truth is emotional eating isn’t about control. It’s about unmet needs and unaddressed feelings. Many of us est not out of hunger, but to cope with stress, boredom, loneliness, anger, fatigue. And it doesn’t always look like the classic ‘crying into a tub of ice cream’ scenario. Often it’s more subtle such as:
– Snacking when you’re overwhelmed
– Eating late at night to fill an emotional gap
– Reaching for food just because you’re tired
These patterns can become habits, and over time, they build up creating a pattern that feels hard to break.
Emotional eating is a spectrum. Whether it’s the occasional stress snack or something more persistent, the common thread is using food to soothe emotions.
So what can you do?
Instead of relying on willpower, focus on building awareness. Ask yourself – What am I really feeling right now? Learn to connect with your emotions before turning to food. Create strategies like journaling, walking, or talking to a friend etc that help you meet emotional needs without raiding the fridge.
Just like adjusting calories when weight loss plateaus, emotional eating requires us to check in, reassess, and get curious about our habits and pattern, not punish ourselves for them.
Awareness is the first step toward change.
Happy Tuesday 🤗
Xx
Every Step Fitness 