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: Breakin ...
Managing mental energy to overcome emotional eating
Being mentally exhausted or overwhelmed are typical reasons for emotional eating and constant snacking during the day. Especially if you work from home and you can easily grab a snack when you feel mentally tired, stressed, overloaded and overworked. ...
Dieting Diana and Balanced Bianca – from food obsession to food freedom
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 s ...
Breaking free from the fear of failure to overcome emotional eating
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 y ...
From Stress to Success: How to Manage Emotional Eating for High-Achievers
Many high-achieving, successful people often face the challenge of overeating and emotional eating, even though they excel in other areas of their lives. In this blog post, I introduce the W.I.S.E.R. model as a tool to manage emotional ...
Taking a deep breath can make you more anxious and stressed
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 diaphragmat ...
Interior design to help you break free from emotional eating
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. ...
Overeating to improve your mood – does it work?
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 ...
You are successful in your life but struggle with food
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 com ...
How stress-related overeating works
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, lead ...
