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Uncover Your Triggers

Your Essential Step Towards Freedom from Emotional Eating

By Rita May

Are you tired of feeling trapped in a cycle of emotional eating, stress-induced binging, or habitual overeating?

The solution you’ve been searching for starts with a fundamental step: uncovering your triggers.

UNCOVER YOUR TRIGGERS

Let’s dive into why uncovering your hidden triggers is absolutely crucial for your journey towards a healthier relationship with food:

Awareness Unlocks Transformation

When you gain clarity on your unique triggers, you open the door to transformation. Understanding the situations, emotions, and circumstances that drive you to eat emotionally is the first step towards change.

Each person’s triggers are unique. By uncovering yours, you can create strategies that suit your individual needs.

You may feel like you already know what triggers your overeating habit but we all have blind spots.

You will be surprised when you discover what you are really hungry for.

Breaking the Cycle of Reaction

Triggers often lead to automatic reactions—eating without conscious thought. You look down and realize you finished the whole bag of chips or the whole tub of ice cream without even noticing.

But by recognizing your triggers, you can interrupt these patterns and make choices aligned with your goals.

Identifying your triggers empowers you to choose how you respond. Instead of reacting impulsively, you can consciously decide your next steps.

Addressing the Root

Triggers are often tied to emotions or unresolved issues. Uncovering these connections allows you to address the root causes of emotional eating instead of just dealing with the symptoms.

For example, if rejection triggers you to indulge in sugary treats, it could stem from past experiences. Recognizing this trigger prompts you to work on self-esteem and build healthy relationships (in addition to dealing with the overeating habit itself).

Lasting results

The goal isn’t just to momentarily curb emotional eating—it’s to achieve lasting change. Uncovering triggers lays the foundation for sustainable, long-term success.

How Feelings Can Be Set Off

Let’s imagine a girl named Emma who’s having a fantastic day at the park with her family. The sun is shining, and she’s all smiles and laughter. Her sister takes a picture, and Emma excitedly asks to see it. She thinks it looks great but suddenly starts feeling down, and within an hour, she’s pretty sad.

Have you ever felt a bit upset because of something really small, and you don’t even know why it’s bothering you? Well, that’s what we call emotional triggers. They’re like invisible buttons inside you that can make you feel differently. It’s like a secret code that brings up emotions you’d rather not have.

For Emma, the trigger was the photo she saw. When she looked at it, she thought her sister looked so slim, and that made her realize she wasn’t happy with her own body. It started a chain reaction of thoughts about her weight, and she began to feel really down.

But it could have been another trigger too. Maybe when she looked at the photo, she noticed her mom looked older, and it made her think this might be the last time they came to the park as a family.

Then, all of a sudden, she’s thinking about death and what’s the point of everything when everyone you love will go away someday.

These triggers are like little switches that can flip your emotions, and it’s a bit like a water gun – even a small pull of the trigger can splash you big time! Some triggers can make you super happy, too, like finding a piece of your favourite childhood candy.

The thing is, these triggers are things you’re sensitive to, and they can affect your whole day or even your whole week. Just a few words, a picture, or a moment can make you feel off-balance, like you’re stuck in a cloud of sadness, worry, or shame.

But don’t worry if a sad memory makes you feel sad again. It doesn’t mean you’re weak or not okay; it means you’re human. We all go through this because of what things remind us of and the thoughts they bring back. It’s just part of being a human.

Let’s take a different example: Imagine someone, let’s call her Lily, who endured constant teasing and ridicule for being overweight when she was a child. You can easily understand how these painful memories might lead to several emotional triggers in her adult life.

Lily could become super sensitive about her weight, always feeling like people are judging her. Or she might have turned to unhealthy eating habits as a way to cope with those feelings of not measuring up.

She might also have this intense need to exercise for hours every day, or she could still struggle with a really negative body image, seeing herself as much bigger than she really is.

Now, what happens when one of these triggers gets set off? How do you react when you suddenly feel this intense pain?

Well, you might fall back into the habits or defence mechanisms you’ve developed over the years. For some people, that means they physically withdraw from everything, becoming very isolated. For others, it could lead to feeling out of control and overwhelmed.

If you are reading this it’s highly likely that it leads you to turn to food. You eat to comfort and numb yourself or distract yourself from these uncomfortable emotions.

The worst part is, that these reactions can stop you from living your life the way you want to.

That’s why it’s important to be aware of your triggers.

Once you figure out how to spot your emotional triggers, you can take charge of your impulses and stop yourself from reacting without thinking.

When you start recognizing these triggers, you can keep an eye on them and understand that you have the power to step in before you react.

This is the secret to turning things around and working toward a better result in any situation.

I know what it´s like to feel out of control and powerless around food. It´s like a monster taking over you and you just can´t stop eating and snacking.

I used to binge eat during my 20s because of stupid restrictive diets and not feeling good enough.

I used to eat to relieve stress during my 30s while balancing demanding work, looking after small children and attending to all the other responsibilities.

In my 40s I finally managed to figure out how to stop emotional eating and habitual overeating.

I want the same for you so I’ve created something for you.

You will get a chance to uncover the true reasons for your overeating habit and I will provide you powerful tools to overcome habitual overeating/binging & emotional eating.

I know you want to eat and feel normal again so badly but until you find the real reasons causing you to overeat you will always fall back.

What's included?

Video lessons, worksheets and cheat sheets to uncover your triggers to overeat (worth $65).

Detailed solutions to the most common triggers so you will know how to address them (worth $35).

How to Stop Eating Your Feelings workbook (sold for $15)

Who is Rita May

I’m a certified Nutrition and Diet and Adviser and Health Coach. I help busy and driven female professionals, entrepreneurs and hard working mothers to find time and motivation to eat a balanced diet and transform their relationship with food.

I help you reprogram your mind and build healthy habits so you can stop emotional and habitual overeating and binging.

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To sum it all up

Triggers are very personal. Different things trigger different people, and so a trigger for you may not affect another person at all.

When looking to better respond to your triggers, you need to identify the trigger itself first. The external stimuli may appear to be innocent (because, in a real way, it is!), but it could be a trigger simply because of what it represents to you.

It may have nothing to do with what happened to you and more to do with the links you make in your mind.

Let’s find your triggers so you can step in before you react!