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4 Myths About Triggers for Overeating That Every High-Achieving Woman Should Know

Emotional Eating

As a high-achieving professional woman, you’ve built your life on mastering challenges, solving complex problems, and achieving success in your career.

But when it comes to your relationship with food, things might not be so clear-cut. If you’ve ever struggled with overeating, emotional eating, or binge eating, you’re not alone—and there’s a good chance that some common misconceptions are holding you back from finding the solutions you need.

Understanding the triggers behind your overeating is crucial to taking control of your habits and creating a healthier relationship with food. However, there are several myths about these triggers that can make the journey to self-awareness and change more difficult than it needs to be.

In this article, we’ll debunk four of the most pervasive myths about triggers for overeating and help you see the path forward more clearly.

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Finding Your Triggers For Overeating to break free from emotional and binge eating

The Ultimate Guide to Discover Your Triggers for Overeating

Emotional Eating

The Ultimate Guide to Discover Your Triggers for Overeating

As a high-achieving professional woman, you’re no stranger to the pressures of balancing a demanding career with personal responsibilities. You’re driven, ambitious, and always striving for success, but there’s one area of your life that might feel out of control—your relationship with food.

If you’ve found yourself turning to food during stressful moments, using it as a way to cope with emotions, or struggling with overeating, you’re not alone. The key to breaking free from these habits lies in understanding your triggers for overeating.

In this guide, we’ll explore

  • why it’s crucial to identify these triggers,
  • how they impact your eating habits, and
  • the steps you can take to gain control.

By the end, you’ll have a clearer understanding of your relationship with food and the tools to start making positive changes.

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Being always productive might be the reason for overeating and binge eating

Do you always need to be productive? This can be the reason for overeating.

Emotional Eating

Do you always need to be productive and do something otherwise you feel like you're lazy or even worthless? This might be the reason for overeating and binging.   Your self-worth is tied to being an overachiever and you always need to be productive or at least do something. You feel guilty when you do nothing. It feels like you’re lazy, you’re wasting time and you may even feel worthless. Here is when overeating comes in. When you overeat you can switch your brain off, zo ...

Practicing gratitude to stop emotional eating

Practicing gratitude to stop emotional eating

Balanced LifeEmotional EatingHealthy Lifestyle
  Gratitude helps you see the positive aspects of your life, brightens your mood, and consequently reduces the need to eat to feel better. How we feel - how happy we are, how stressed we are, even how well we sleep - may seem like it’s out of our hands, but it is actually often a choice we make. We can choose to be grateful for what we have and feel more blissful. Or we can choose to focus on what we’re lacking, who has wronged us, and what’s not going our way. And guess what? We’ll feel miserable. We may blame others, circumstances, or fate for our unhappiness. But at the end of the day, it’s often about us and the choices we make. One of the simplest ways I find to be able to shift my mood is focusing on gratitude. Of course, sometimes that’s easier said than done. But as a motivation to practice gratitude more often let's see the benefits of gratitude, how you can easily integrate it into your life, and how practising gratitude helps to stop emotional eating.   ...
Navigating Emotional Eating and Food Temptation During the Holiday Season

Navigating Emotional Eating and Food Temptation During the Holiday Season

Emotional Eating

  I talked about emotional eating and navigating food temptations during the holiday season on Instagram with Samantha, the founder of Inner Bloom, a women's personal development platform. You can watch the replay HERE. We talked about: 🌸 Our own experiences with overeating. 🌸 How the overeating or binging habit forms. 🌸 Understanding our eating patterns. 🌸 Pinpointing triggers leading to stress-induced snacking and emotional indulgences. 🌸 How to replace these habits wit ...

Autumn: The Best Time to Begin Overcoming Emotional Eating

Autumn: The Best Time to Begin Overcoming Emotional Eating

Emotional Eating

Are you struggling with emotional eating, those moments when your emotions take the reins, leading you to unhealthy food choices? You're not alone. Eating for emotional reasons can be a challenging issue, but the good news is that autumn is the best time to begin overcoming emotional eating and reaching food freedom. Here are several reasons why this season is the perfect time to start addressing emotional eating: Season of Change and Renewal Autumn is a season of transformation. The leaves ch ...

Freedom from emotional eating through hobbies

Discover Freedom from Emotional Eating through Hobbies

Emotional Eating

Discover how having a hobby can help you take the first steps towards freedom from emotional eating! The content of this blog post is taken from my podcast interview with Hobbyscool. You can listen to the podcast here: Emotional Eating: Breaking the Cycle with Science, Psychology, and Hobbies With Rita May How having a hobby can help with emotional eating? Savour Life, Not Food Having a hobby can serve as a better way of releasing stress than eating. When people are very busy and ti ...

from food obsession to food freedom

Dieting Diana and Balanced Bianca – from food obsession to food freedom

Emotional EatingHealthy Weight Loss
This blog post introduces the two extremes of my clients' journey from food obsession to food freedom. The starting point for many of them is food obsession, constant dieting or yo-yo dieting. This state is represented by Dieting Diana. The goal state is food freedom, which although can be defined in many ways, is simply the opposite of the above. This is what my clients reach after working with me and it's represented by Balanced Bianca. NOTE: I taught an entire class on Diana's and Bianca's case study (a.k.a. from food obsession to food freedom) and you can watch the replay HERE if you want to know how to become Balanced Bianka.  In this 1-hour class, I talked about 5 of the most common mistakes that dieters (e.g. Dieting Diana) make that drive them to overeat and how to fix these issues (what Balanced Bianca does). Change these and you are on your way to food freedom.  It's not the same content that you can read here. Let's see how these ladies eat, exercise, think, what they believe and how they relate to food and themselves.

Let me introduce you to Dieting Diana

  Diana really wants to have a better relationship with food. She would like to look at food as something just to feed her body and get some pleasure from. She doesn’t want it to be her main source of joy, comfort and reward. She wants to be able to enjoy food and have fun with her friends and family without thinking about what she’s eating or shouldn’t be eating all the time. She doesn’t want to think about food as something evil that makes her become out of control. Sometimes it feels like a monster takes over her body, and she can’t stop eating. She doesn’t even enjoy the food anymore but she just keeps eating. She knows it's possible to have a healthy relationship with food while also being at a healthy weight, but it seems really far away.   from food obsession to food freedom   ...