176. Why You Eat When You're Not Hungry: Understanding What the Food Is Giving You

If you want to lose weight but emotional eating, cravings, stress, and menopause keep getting in the way, "More Than Weight Loss" will help you understand what your body actually needs without putting you back on another diet.

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THIS WEEK'S EPISODE

Food does make you feel better.  We know and there is science behind what it does in the brain.

That may sound strange coming from me because I say all the time that emotional eating isn't really about the food. But if chocolate, chips, peanut butter, ice cream, or whatever you reach for didn't give you something, you probably wouldn't keep going back to it.  Right?

In this solo episode of Emotional Eats Podcast, we're looking at what happens before you reach for food, what you're hoping to get from it, and what's there when the food is gone.

I explain the difference between physical hunger, emotional eating, and simply eating for pleasure. Because enjoying chocolate, birthday cake, or popcorn at the movies doesn't automatically mean you're emotionally eating.

We'll talk about:

• Why emotional eating can feel so urgent and automatic

• The "job" you may be asking food to do

• How shame and guilt keep the emotional eating cycle going

• My emotional receipt exercise to help you understand what you actually needed