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Taking a deep breath can make you more anxious and stressed

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Taking a deep breath to calm down may not work for you and it can make you more anxious and stressed. When it comes to breathing and anxiety, slow and steady wins the race. By focusing on extending your exhale and practising diaphragmatic breathing, you can promote feelings of relaxation and reduce stress in your body and mind.

“Taking a deep breath” to calm down is NOT what you need

As a busy, high-performing person, you often find yourself constantly on the go, with a never-ending to-do list and high expectations to meet. This can lead to feelings of overwhelm, stress, and anxiety.

To cope with these overwhelming feelings, many people turn to unhealthy coping mechanisms such as overeating, binge eating, or drinking. You may find yourself reaching for sugary snacks or junk food to help you cope with your emotions or turning to alcohol to unwind after a long day.

Unfortunately, these coping mechanisms only provide temporary relief and can lead to long-term health consequences.

One of the most common pieces of advice given to help calm anxiety and reduce stress is to “take a deep breath.” However, I recently learned that quickly taking a deep breath can actually worsen the symptoms of anxiety by upsetting the delicate balance of gases in our bodies.

How to apply Coue’s method for weight management and lose the struggle

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In this post, I show you how I use Coue’s method for weight management and to do things I thought I couldn’t do.

What you believe you can do changes what you can actually do.

Let me explain.

In this blog post, I talk about

– Cuoe’s method,
– autosuggestions,
– how they work,
– 2 examples from my own life,
– how I applied Coue’s method for weight management,
– how I can help you.

Interior design to help you break free from emotional eating

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Optimizing our environment (using interior design principles) is a powerful tool to help us develop new habits.

I work with my clients to change on six levels to break free from emotional and binge eating. One of the levels is their environment.

When I worked with Adriana Gómez Navarro, Holistic Interior Designer, on her eating habits, she had brilliant ideas about making small changes in her home to help her build the new eating and thinking habits I taught her.

I loved her ideas so much that I asked her to write a guest post about them so you can benefit from her tips too.

Check out her post below about how to use Interior Design to help you break free from emotional eating.

Interior Design to help you break free from emotional eating

My name is Adriana Gómez Navarro, and I am a holistic interior designer. Beyond creating beautiful spaces, my work is about well-being and designing for the changes people want to see in their lives. We shape environments, and then as we live in our spaces, the environment shapes us back.

I met Rita a couple of years ago and loved her guidance while reviewing my habits and impulses around food. We both agree that forcing new habits doesn’t work. Instead, it’s best to flow towards desired outcomes. We both help our clients look at their experience to identify, in their armour of beliefs, why they are stuck in bad habits that don’t allow them to have the life they want.

Overeating to improve your mood – does it work?

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Overeating to improve your mood

It’s important to find mood-boosting activities if you’re an emotional eater. Overeating to improve your mood is only a temporary solution.

They say the third week of January is the gloomiest, most depressing time of the year (it’s cold and dark, etc.). I know it’s already the 4th week but does it really matter? It could be any day of the year.

But it doesn’t have to be.

We can find a few minutes every day to do something that improves our mood. Or we can learn to manage our thoughts and feelings to improve our baseline mood.

It’s especially important to find some mood-boosting activities if you’re an emotional eater and overeat to improve your mood.

Using food to escape an uncomfortable feeling, aka. overeating to improve your mood is only a temporary solution.

You know that, right?

Because that ‘something’ that caused you to feel uncomfortable is still there. You haven’t dealt with it. So it’ll trigger those same feelings again in the future.

If this habit of distracting yourself with food has resulted in weight gain, you’ll have even more negative feelings.

So you have your original issue plus negative thoughts about your body.

Eating to improve your mood doesn’t work very well, right?

You need different solutions

You are successful in your life but struggle with food

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Smart, successful people, like you, despite all they’ve accomplished, sometimes can’t figure out how to stop overeating.

CEOs, entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, physicians, lawyers, coaches, and leaders know how to solve complicated problems, lead the work of other people, win big contracts, save lives, solve legal issues, and coach other people on various topics, but they feel powerless around food.

You’re always busy, your job is stressful, you may even travel a lot, plus you raise a family. To build your career first, you may have had children later in your life. Now you’re in your late 40s or early 50s and have to face the problems associated with your busy career, perimenopause, moody teenagers and ageing parents at the same time.

The eat-to-soothe stress habit became your release.

You can read about how stress-related overeating works and how this habit forms here.

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7 reasons for overeating in the evening or at the weekend and how to stop

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A common question I get:
“I always overeat in the evening or at the weekend. How can I stop this?”

Overeating in the evening and overeating at the weekend are complex issues and there are so many reasons they can happen. I’ll cover the most common reasons and solutions in this post, but if you want my undivided attention, book a free call here so we can find the best solution for YOU.

Let’s see the first reason for overeating in the evening or at the weekend.

How stress-related overeating works

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How stress-eating works

Acute, short-term stress decreases appetite.

However, when stress persists (chronic stress), a hormone called cortisol is released.

Cortisol increases hunger due to the imbalance of ghrelin and leptin hormones, leading to overeating.

Numerous studies show that cortisol also affects food preferences, i.e. increases cravings for foods high in sugar or fat, or both.

5 ways to start living mindfully to stop emotional eating

5 ways to start living mindfully right now to stop emotional eating

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In this post, I introduce 5 ways to start living mindfully to stop emotional eating, binge eating and habitual overeating.

There’s no doubt you’ve heard of mindful living. It’s about being present in your day-to-day life and not letting distractions or worries take over.

In my previous post, I talked about the many benefits of mindful living and showed 4 signs indicating that you live your life mindlessly. Being more mindful also helps with emotional eating and overeating.

If you want to live more mindfully to be able to stop emotional eating but don’t know where to start, try some of these exercises.

how to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

18 ways to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

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How to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

Chances are you feel very sceptical reading the title and you’re probably thinking, “Yeah, right, as it could ever happen…”

But what if I told you it can be done? What if you had some science-backed techniques to help you? Then, would you believe me?

What have you got to lose?

These are my top 18 ways to avoid gaining weight during the holidays.

Let’s get started!

Can mindful eating help with emotional eating? A mindful approach to curb emotional eating

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Mindful Eating to Help Curb Emotional and Binge Eating

If you have developed the habit of emotional or binge eating, in other words, you immediately crave a specific type of food or volume of food when you are stressed, sad, anxious, upset, bored, or even happy, mindful eating can help you tremendously. Especially if you find yourself mindlessly eating a large amount of food without even tasting what you are eating.

It is important that you try a variety of things until you figure out what helps your own issues with emotional eating, but mindful eating is a great tool.

Magyar

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