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

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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.

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

The Ultimate Guide to Discover Your Triggers for Overeating

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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.

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.

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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, zone out, and release tension while you’re also doing something. Instead of just doing nothing and “being lazy” you’re busy eating.

You also enjoy being wanted and being the go-to person – you crave the acceptance of others. Saying no to a request would never happen. The thought of what people might think would drive you crazy.

So you take it all on and then try and manage the stress of it all after.

You’re a people pleaser, have no boundaries, and you’re at the bottom of your to-do list.

No wonder you end up using food as a reward for all your efforts or as me-time after a long and busy day.

It’s a human need to feel acceptance. When we don’t accept ourselves we search in our community for acceptance and need constant external validation that we are good enough.

Allow yourself to do nothing or something you enjoy from time to time so your brain doesn’t make you eat to switch off.

Also, learn to accept yourself. You deserve it.

Do you need help with this?

My Eliminate Emotional Eating coaching program is the perfect solution for you. Feel free to check it out here and if you like it book a free discovery call so you can explain your specific situation to me and ask your questions about the program.

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

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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.

Breaking free from the fear of failure to overcome emotional eating

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How the fear of failure may manifest itself in your life

Most of my clients shared the same initial fear before we began our work together: “What if I fail?” They worried about putting in tremendous effort, only to return to square one.

Perhaps you can relate to this cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain, or the frustrating battle with overeating or binging that seems to resurface every few months.

Fear of failure might manifest itself in thoughts and feelings that getting rid of your unwanted eating habits

– is too difficult,

– takes too long,

– is impossible because you won’t have the willpower to do it,

– means that you will have to deprive yourself.

These negative thoughts and feelings will stop you either during the process or might even stop you before you get started.

overeating in the evening, overeating at the weekend, overeating at night

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.

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.

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