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How to Avoid Emotional Eating {Episode 253}
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Do you eat to make yourself feel better? Do you have a food addiction? How often do you engage in emotional eating? In this epsiode, Bonnie and Audrey discuss how to avoid emotional eating, the connection between anxiety and eating, and how to make better food choiced during the holidays.
Mentioned in this episode:
Episode 220 Eating for a Healthy Weight
Life Coach School episode: The Urge Jar
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Introduction & Hosts Introduction
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listening to episode 253 of Outnumber the Podcast, Emotional Eating. We're going to dive in today on how to manage our emotions, especially around the holidays, and avoid face planting into all the desserts because we feel terrible about something. So we're going to share four tips today on avoiding emotional eating, including getting in tune with your body, evaluating the emotions that are likely going to come up for you in the holidays,
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acknowledging that certain foods feel better than others, and finally being aware that negative emotions might cause us to react in other unhealthy ways as well. So let's get to it.
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Hello and welcome to Outnumbered the Podcast. I'm Audrey. And I'm Bonnie. We are experienced moms to a combined total of 19 children. In our weekly episodes, we explore relatable topics using our perspectives of humor and chaos. Tune in for advice and encouragement to gain more joy in your parenting journey.
Emotional Eating & Holidays
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Hello friends. Welcome back to the show. Today we're going to be talking about emotional eating, which sounds like really heavy and emotional, but it won't be. It's going to be a fun discussion. And it's just in time for the holidays, right? Thanksgiving coming up and all of the junk food that comes at us during the holidays and all of the emotions that come at us. So it's going to be a good talk. Well, you know what they say. Desserts is just stressed, spelled backwards.
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Understanding Emotional vs Physical Hunger
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All right, so holidays are officially upon us, I guess, right, for Thanksgiving after Halloween, holiday season, and they're just notoriously filled with all kinds of food.
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But especially the kinds of food that we generally don't eat all the time and probably shouldn't eat all the time, right? The junkie kind. Yes, some foods are labeled comfort food and that's for a reason. But today we want to talk to you about how to avoid some of this emotional eating that can happen. And like most of us find out that we're
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making food decisions that we're not proud of during the holidays, like either we gain weight or we lose weight or whatever's going on, it's often due to emotional eating. And that kind of comes with all the extra maybe family time or memories or stuff that's going on inside of us. And we kind of connect it to eating or comfort ourselves with eating or whatever. So we're going to get into a bunch of hopefully helpful tips for you today.
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Yes, yes. So just to clarify, emotional eating or what we're going to talk about as emotional eating today is when we eat to avoid an emotion or
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It also applies when we're eating to chase an emotion. We're looking to feel a specific way, and so we eat to get that way or to avoid something we're already feeling. I'm going to teach you a distinction really quickly here that's important to understand, and that is the distinction between physical sensations in our body and emotions that come from our mind. We use the word feel a lot. I feel this way, I feel that way. But we could feel hunger, which is in our body, and we can feel angry, which comes from thoughts in our mind. They're very different things.
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So it's important for us to understand what we're really feeling before we put food into our body. So when I am feeling depressed and I eat food out of depression, that is emotional eating, or I'm seeking to feel better from my depression.
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If I am feeling hunger, as in a hollowness in my stomach, growling, maybe a headache or whatever happens when I'm actually physically hungry, that is eating out of a physical necessity to eat. So I'm not saying we never ever are allowed to eat emotionally, but we're going to try to lessen it during this holiday season so that we can stay in keeping with the kind of food habits we want.
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Okay, so we're constantly surrounded by food. We are very blessed not to be hungry or very hungry. I'm not even making food choices that are good choices or healthy choices. We're just surrounded by food. So it means we can get out of touch with our body's sensation like, oh, it's noon. It's time for lunch. But when is the last time you actually felt hungry?
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And so that is, that is a physical sensation like you were talking about is the feeling of, you know, your stomach growling or cramping or whatever it does when you feel hungry. Um, when is the last time you, you actually felt that as opposed to just eating because it's a routine or eating, like you said, to chase any emotion or to get rid of any emotion, responding to your physical needs instead of your emotional needs.
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Yes, and I'm glad you brought up how blessed we are because I don't want to ignore the fact that this is not the case for everyone in the world or even in our country that many people do struggle with malnutrition or a lack of food. But for many of us, the problem is the opposite. It's these massive quantities of food very often, low nutritional value, that we keep feeding ourselves in order to try to feel better and we find ourselves
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Malnourished ourselves, but overweight and with other health problems. So really tuning into your body is important. There's a few ways you can do this. So if you notice that it's been a while since you've actually felt hungry, one thing that I do regularly, and I actually do this for religious reasons, but I fast for just a few meals.
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So, I allow myself a chance to kind of reset my body and remind myself what it feels like to be hungry and to manage my body with my mind. Like, I hear you. I know you're hungry. We'll get there eventually, but right now, you're just going to be uncomfortable for a while. Okay?
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I'm not at all a fan of starving ourselves, but if we don't get in touch with that feeling, we run the risk of never actually truly fulfilling our body's needs and just always eating out of a chasing an emotion. Does that make sense?
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It does make sense. And have you ever noticed how good food tastes after you fast or after you skip a meal? I noticed like everything like I don't even I don't only taste the food, but I taste like different aspects of the food, which kind of I've missed, you know, if I've been not paying attention to my
Recognizing True Hunger
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body's hunger signals. Yes. And I will also say that when I eat massive quantities of I'll just say junk food, so highly processed food,
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I am a little bit more, I'm a little bit less likely to catch those nuances and really enjoy fresh, healthy food. I don't know if you've noticed that, right? You eat a bunch of cookies and cake and you don't really enjoy an apple or a vegetable. When we get back to those whole healthy foods, we're able to better really savor the little nuances of them, the little flavors, the crunch. Anyway, that's just kind of a side note about getting back to healthy food if you have been eating a lot of junk.
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Okay, so tip number one to help us avoid emotional eating. Get in tune with your body. Just pay attention to what your body is feeling, not up here. And this can be tricky because sometimes we get all mixed up. We think, oh no, but I'm hungry. We think, but stop. Does it feel like actual hunger or does it just feel like I could use something in my mouth? I can't tell you how many times I just went on a trip with some girlfriends.
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I can't tell you how many times we were like, is it time to eat? We're like, I could eat, I could eat, I could eat. None of us were like ever hungry those entire four days because you know, why not? And we were just eating for fun. It was just a fun pastime, which we totally think is okay at times. Just during the holidays, especially we tended to get a little overboard on that.
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So what does hunger feel like? When did you last feel it? Is it constant or does it come in waves? This is something interesting. I noticed mine comes in waves. Sometimes it's extreme. Sometimes it goes away. And are there any emotions that come with it? So sometimes when I'm hungry, I get irritated. Like my mind is telling me I shouldn't be hungry or I need food. I get irritated or frustrated or any number of emotions come along with that physical hunger. So interesting. I think there's actually a term for that hangry. You're not hungry, you're hangry.
00:08:27
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been there for sure. Okay. So how I tune into my body's needs. The first thing I do when I'm thinking about food is I'll take a drink of water. Like is it actually thirst? And that is, I think a diet tip that I saw or something somewhere or a health nutrition tip. Like when you first start thinking about food, drink water first. Cause oftentimes your body actually just needs some water. So drink some water. It's like cleansing the palette or it's like, um,
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just re-tuning your body like a refresh. Is it actually hunger or was I just thirsty? Then another thing I'll do is, like if it's the middle afternoon, it's not really a mealtime and I'm thinking about food or wanting a little snacky something, I'll just have like a piece of gum. Side note, my dentist told me that something I could do to help my teeth and my mouth
00:09:17
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pH was to chew xylitol gum. I'll link the stuff that he recommended in the show notes. I'm feeling like I'm doing a healthy thing when I just pop in a little piece of this xylitol gum. That makes me chew and swallow, which is some of the signals that are sent to my
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to your brain that you're eating is the chewing and the swallowing. And so sometimes gum will just like offset that and I'll be like, Oh yeah, I didn't, I wasn't really hungry. And this is just kind of making my body think I had a little something and we're good to go for a while. Plus it's supposed to define your jawline chewing gum, right? So like all these good things. Oh yeah. Put that in the show notes. I think we all need that. That's fun.
00:09:57
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No, I mean gum chewing in general. Oh, okay, we don't need that one. Okay, to anything sounds good. Okay, so so here's a tricky thing about listening to your body though, it can get a little confused. The first thing I want to mention is, if you are used to eating way more food than you need, your body will be hungry.
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when you're not, when you stop emotionally eating. So you're thinking, well, I'm hungry, I should keep eating, but you were actually eating too much, right? Does that make sense? So especially if you are overweight, your stomach can get distended. That's why there's bariatric surgery, right? They actually take away a portion of the stomach to shrink it and make it so that you don't overeat and continue gaining weight, right? So just be aware that if you have kind of abused this in the past, your body might not give you true signals and you might need to deal with some of that discomfort as you kind of retune into what your body really needs.
Dealing with Addictions & Cravings
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The other thing I wanna mention here is that addictions can also cause physical urges that are not good for you, right? So if you've ever been addicted to a substance like alcohol or tobacco or something, you know that it's a very real physical need to have that substance that your body does not need. Your body is saying, oh, I need this thing, I need it. When we go off these substances, there is withdrawal symptoms because your body has now become addicted to it. So the same thing can happen with food, especially foods
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that are very calorie dense. So we'll talk about that in a second, but just pay attention. Like if your body's giving you a signal that doesn't make sense, like I just ate a meal and it's telling me I'm still hungry or I need the sugar or something, you might just be dealing with a little bit of an addiction.
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Tip number two, evaluate the emotions that are likely going to come up soon for you during this holiday season and how you'll handle them. So this is something that's pretty hard to do, like to think about what is hard for you to think about or the emotions, what you're going to be thinking about that's going to cause unpleasant emotions and what you could do instead, what you could think about instead or how you can resolve those ahead of time without turning to food.
00:11:54
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Yes, this is just, in fact, this is something I recommend to anyone who is heading into a season of life that they know is going to be difficult, like extended relatives around that you don't love, is to just kind of anticipate the emotions that are going to come up for you. Okay, so last Christmas, when uncle so-and-so showed up and said some rude things, what did I feel? What did I think, right? To think ahead of those and prepare yourself for that. So we know that the holidays are full of emotion. A lot of it is good and a lot of it is not so good.
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As far as the negative feelings go, I know stress comes up for me, anxiety or worry that things aren't going to work out the way I'd like them to. Money problems, if you're spending on gifts and things, relationship issues, you're seeing probably family members that you haven't seen in a while or not seeing family members you would like to. So there's like missing them or sorrow there.
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worries about travel and expenses there and just innumerable frustrations that can come up around all this busy time. So just think about what usually gets you at this time and prepare for it so you don't soothe yourself with food. Okay, so make a plan on how to feel and process those emotions. You know they're going to come up, so what can you do that's not heading for the nearest plate of cookies to soothe yourself, right?
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So I actually want to acknowledge here that I don't have a problem with emotional eating. I actually have a problem with the other way. I have an emotional not eating problem where if I get stressed, it's like my throat actually closes up and I couldn't swallow if I tried. And when I try to explain this to people, they're like, oh, must be nice.
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But it's actually not nice because then I'm having to deal with all these things that come up like during a holiday season and I'm not well nourished going into it. So like I'll get wear down worn down like is very easy to do through a holiday season or through an intense time and I don't have food helping me out because I just like I can't eat no matter what so I have to also think about how I'm gonna process these thoughts and emotions so that I don't stop eating and
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And and then put myself in an even worse position. So sometimes I find like, OK, I could drink a cup of tea because I can usually if drinking something warm and comforting will kind of settle me and drinking a tea isn't going to add, it's going to there's going to be a little bit of nutrients in it. Or if you're an emotional eater, it's going to like soothe a little bit. The warmth of it will be soothing and then like get myself into a better headspace through just slowing down with a cup of tea.
00:14:24
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To be able to maybe slow down enough to think through some of these emotions or why am I not eating? So you could do the same thing like have a cup of tea and think about why you want to go for that plate of Christmas cookies Yes, I'm glad you added that and in reality there's not too much different from you know that the danger that comes from over eating sugar and garbage for months and
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and not eating enough. The only real difference is that not eating enough will probably land you in the hospital quicker than the cookies. But either way, you're being malnourished, not taking care of your body, and not being able to healthily approach these negative emotions that are coming up for you. So great tip. All right, tip number three. Let's just acknowledge here that food feels good.
Dopamine & Food Triggers
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And that specific foods in particular trick your brain into thinking they're good for you. There's a reason why we love sweets. And also, can you tell that my addiction of choice is why I always bring up sugar. Or comfort foods, potatoes and meats and things that have a lot of calories. They tell our brain that they will help us survive. And sometimes that's good, like in the form of a starchy vegetable or something. Sometimes that's not so good when it's a bucket of ice cream.
00:15:39
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No, that's true. Foods actually elicit a dopamine response. Like high calorie foods like high in sugar, salt, flour, they tell your brain they'll keep you alive for longer. They'll make you even feel even better. And it's a trick because they're usually empty of nutrients or a lot lower in nutrients. So you have to you have to watch out for what your brain is telling you.
00:16:04
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Actually, it's probably not your brain. It's, well, I don't know a different part of your brain. Anyway, it's telling you, Oh, good, eat more. Yeah, for sure. We don't know all the science, but something in there is telling us this is going to help us survive, we should eat more. And please don't think that we're like blaming you for these choices either. We are the chips are stacked against us because the food manufacturers know this, there are scientists
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on their teams that say, guess what? If we add this one little chemical, it will switch to switch in the brain and they will just eat it nonstop because it's telling their brain that this is good for them. So this is why we avoid packaged foods, guys. This is why we have to stay away from the things that are made by the scientists trying to get us to buy more of it, right? Because they know exactly what it does to our brain. It's manufactured specifically for that to get more money in their pockets. That's sad, but that is true.
00:16:54
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I personally choose most of the time to just not keep these types of foods in my house because I'm just human and there's only so much willpower I have, especially when I'm facing negative emotions. And if someone makes a pan of brownies and I'm dealing with those emotions, I will try to give them away before I face plant in the pan of brownies because
00:17:12
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They just taste so good, right? And they give me that dopamine hit so I can move through the negative emotion. If I give it away, then guess what? I have to feel the emotion and process it, which is the whole point of having emotion. We have to feel it to move through it and to release it. But always eating the brownies is going to cause a whole lot of problems. You realize you said the chips are stacked against us. That's why I've been chuckling this.
00:17:36
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The chips, the brownies, the crackers, the cookies, they're all stacked against us. All of them. Hot cocoa, pumpkin spice lattes, you name it. It's all stacked against us. Pumpkin spice, yes. All the pumpkin spice things.
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Oh my goodness.
Unhealthy Emotional Reactions
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Okay, tip number four, be aware that negative emotions might cause you to react in other unhealthy ways around food and substances. So this is kind of my experience with this is the non eating that I've talked to you about. So like, I guess I first came to the awareness that I had this whole non eating thing. After my
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dad died in a car accident and I was dealing with a lot of grief and I just had a baby and I got down to like skeletal amounts of body fat on myself because I just like I just couldn't eat and it was it was really hard to come to that awareness that this was something that I was doing to myself it my brain was doing to me because I don't know like if it's a reverse wiring or something like this food is gonna kill you sort of thought which is like
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completely backward wiring, like those light switches you go into a house and you flip it up and the light turns off. It's like my brain or something, I don't know. But it's just be aware that there's other unhealthy things that can happen around food and substances. So it's not only, I mean, you might think, oh, hey, I'm doing good. I'm not emotionally eating, but there's other things that can happen too, ways that we try to avoid processing emotions that we're feeling.
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Yeah. And I know we've talked in other episodes of different activities that we do to avoid those emotions, right? Like scrolling social media or getting on Netflix or sleeping excessively. I don't think that's any mom's problem. But anyway, if, you know, if I could do that, maybe I would, but there's, you know, lots of substances, like we already talked about alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, all those things give us a little jolt of something that makes it easier to withstand those negative emotions. So it's not in your imagination.
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it is a hard thing. Your brain comes to rely on these substances to make it through a tough day. And if there is a substance or a food that you find yourself not being able to go without, it's some sort of an addiction for your brain. Your brain is craving that coffee, that drink, that food, whatever it is, to just survive the day because
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you don't know how to process those emotions. And sometimes it is like actual physical exhaustion, we should be sleeping more. And so instead, we go and have a bunch of caffeine. But this is our reminder to just tap into what our bodies truly, truly need. And when we give it what it truly, truly needs, actual nutrition, actual vitamins and minerals, we're actually, and sleep, of course, we're actually better able to cope with those negative emotions that come, right? Every time I think all I need is some chocolate to get through this day,
00:20:29
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Well, yeah, it tastes good, but is it really giving my body what it needs to show up for me and my family over and over even as hard things come in?
Parenting & Kids' Eating Behaviors
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Yeah, I have. I'm talking a little bit more about this emotional non-eating.
00:20:40
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I have some kids who have this as well, so maybe it's a little bit of genetic to it, or maybe it's a learned behavior from watching me. But I'll try to help, like I know, I recognize this in myself, so I see in them, so then I can try to help them with it a little bit. And so I will like maybe say, hey, let's have a cup of tea and start there, like to help them out with that. I also have watched others go through emotional eating, and I don't,
00:21:06
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Like I love all these tips that we're sharing, but I know that I have observed that there's also this almost like looping, like they eat because they're feeling this or avoiding feeling this emotion. And then they beat themselves up because they did the emotional eating.
00:21:22
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And then they're avoiding feeling that emotion, so then they're eating to avoid that emotion or to soothe themselves from that emotion. It seems like there's this whole loop thing. So if you can just, I don't know, maybe some of these tips to break it somewhere or to at least stop the part where you beat yourself up over it.
00:21:42
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Because it's like, it's natural. It's why, I mean, it's so, it's, it's why there's so much comfort food packed into this time of year. You know, the pumpkin pies and the mashed potatoes and all the, you know, it's supposed to be this warm, friendly, happy, good feeling, comfortable family, all this stuff going on. But for some people it's just not. And so food has such a big connection with this time of year. Like just start maybe even thinking about it will help try to start breaking that cycle somehow.
00:22:12
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Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say is when we start to make changes to how we're eating, it brings up a lot of garbage, a lot of emotions. This is what life coaches and therapists are for, right? It's like to work through some of this garbage that comes up for us. It's like, oh, and I did it again. And then like you say, the loop, but just awareness is huge. When I was just able to step back and go.
00:22:33
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Oh my gosh, sometimes I just eat for the feeling of it. Not the physical feeling, this emotional feeling. Sometimes I just go eat, like ice cream is one for me. I'm actually not a huge fan of ice cream, but I eat it socially.
00:22:45
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My friends go out. I eat it because I want to feel like I belong. I want to feel like I'm at the party. I want to feel like, you know, so interesting that it's not actually something that I really want so bad. It's something that I, it's a feeling that I'm chasing. So just that awareness has been huge for me. Do I still eat ice cream? Yes, I do, because it's hard to cut out. But I acknowledge that sometimes I just do it to feel a certain way. So maybe this holiday season, all you're going to do is just pay attention. Just pay attention. Like interesting. Did I eat that pie?
00:23:12
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I really wanted it because obviously you're not eating pie because you're hungry, you're eating it because you really want it. Or were you eating it because did you finish off the pie after you brought it home because your aunt Margaret said something nasty to you and you're trying to process it? I actually have an aunt Margaret that wasn't intended at you, Margaret, you're wonderful, but in case she's listening. Just process those emotions. Are the emotions driving the food or can I keep them separate? One of the thought for me is that it isn't necessary to eliminate all emotional eating. I don't think that is even...
00:23:42
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And what I mean by like, sometimes we're going to eat things because we're experiencing something. We're at a party. We're at a birthday. We're, you know, we want to have an experience that doesn't necessarily just fulfill a hunger need, but to keep that within some guidelines so that we still stay healthy. Absolutely. There's some experiences.
00:24:02
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events that are all about the food. That's why we're doing them, right? But the result of too much emotional eating, it includes being out of touch with our emotions because we're substituting or placating or, you know, comforting, whatever. But being overweight or unhealthy or underweight and addiction, like it, those are all some of the side effects of it. And so just like, I think what you said is like, if you
00:24:28
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At this beginning of this holiday season, if you just said, okay, I'm just going to be aware of why I'm eating what I'm eating. I'm not going to make any changes. I'm just going to be aware. And that's like a super great place to start. Or in my case, why you're not eating what you're not eating. Yeah. Yeah. That honestly sounds like a terrible problem. Seriously.
00:24:46
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because then you deprive yourself of even the comfort of food, you know? Yeah. No, I like it. Sometimes it's like, Oh, I know I would feel better if I could just eat this. Like there's something that I would really enjoy eating normally. And it often happens like in a crowd or in a, in a group, like I just like this food looks great, but I can't eat it. Interesting. Yeah. So interesting. And, and so awesome that you are aware of what, what happens for you, even though it's different from somebody else. Um, my final thought guys is, like I said, awareness, and then also just,
00:25:14
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getting in touch with those emotions.
Processing Emotions & Eating Habits
00:25:16
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This has been such a great work for me as I've done life coach training and just really paid attention to how I'm feeling and to acknowledge how important it is to feel. We don't talk about that a lot. If anything, we shove our feelings under the rug because it's not professional or it's not manly or it's not responsible to
00:25:38
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cry a bunch or to whatever, feel frustrated, feel angry, but our emotions are there for a reason. They're trying to communicate something. And so if we continue to ignore them, and like you said, Audrey, there's all these side effects of being unhealthy because we're going to an addictive substance, or I've also seen addictive behaviors happen to people who do not process their emotions in a healthy way, not just food and substances, but other things as well. So just acknowledge that you have feelings
00:26:06
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you are required to feel them or else they will go someplace and hide and jump out and attack you when you at least suspect them and just work on that. Right now I feel angry and I'm not going to eat chocolate and I'm not going to try to feel better. I'm just going to allow myself to feel angry and allow that and see what comes up for me. Okay. I have some final thoughts too, but I wanted to share something that I couldn't remember earlier.
00:26:30
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And some of my friends and I were talking about this earlier, about how when you go from nursing a child to not nursing a child, how the amount that you eat changes. And if you don't pay attention, I could eat an entire rack of ribs by myself when I was nursing, especially if I was nursing one of my boys. Yum. No joking.
00:26:51
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I'd go to a restaurant and I'd order one and the waiter would be like, ma'am, this is an entire rack. And I'd be like, bring it on because of nursing. But now, like two or three ribs fills me up. So if you're not aware of that, I find myself now saying, oh,
00:27:10
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I almost wish I was nursing again so I could eat this because it's so good. Like I could eat more of it, but I can't because I'm not nursing. So just be aware of as moms, there's things that happen to us that cause us to be able to eat less or more and just make sure it's not an emotional thing, but make sure it's these life things happening to us.
Resources & Final Thoughts
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I also wanted to share a really super good resource is Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School.
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has a lot of experience with emotional eating and eating and dieting and yo-yo dieting and weight and all that. And so if you dig back through some of the back episodes of Life Coach School where she was focusing and talking about those, if this is an issue that you've identified for yourself, she has some really, really helpful advice. And I think it's so helpful because she's coming from a place of authenticity, like it's something that she has struggled with. So I definitely recommend go and listen and find some of those back episodes.
00:28:03
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Oh, yes, thanks for sharing. She is definitely an expert on that. And she talks a lot about managing urges, too. I believe there's an episode called the urge jar. In fact, we'll find that and link it in the show notes, but where she talks about managing those urges that you know, you don't want to give into like eating the entire pan of pumpkin pie. And really, really great tips for moving through those. The final final thing I'll share is we do have another great episode in companion with this one. And it's eating for a healthy weight.
00:28:28
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And we'll link that in the show notes. And that's a great one for moms who are trying to maybe balance their weight a little bit, especially after having a bunch of kids, and want to figure out the best way to eat for that healthier weight. So that's all we have for you guys today. I hope this was helpful. Go out, enjoy the holidays, but just be a little bit aware of those feelings and what they're driving you to do. Thanks for joining us this week. I'm Bonnie. I'm Audrey. And we're outnumbered.
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