#4 - Where Food And Feelings Collide - How You Can Stop Eating Your Emotions

Today’s episode of Body Kindness is all about emotional eating. Whether it’s happy, sad or anything between, we’re having a real honest conversation about the challenging relationship between how we feel and what we eat. Plus, we’re starting a Body Kindness book club!

Here’s what we talked about...

• We discuss what’s wrong with labeling foods as “good” and “bad” and why you should fire the food police.
• I explain why all emotions, good and bad, are actually good for you.
• Bernie talked about his relationship with food since his time on The Biggest Loser, from feeling a responsibility to be a weight loss “ambassador”, to the challenges of everyday life and family food rituals.
• I shared how lack of self-compassion can be self-sabotaging when it comes to practicing body kindness and creating new healthy habits that last.
• I gave Bernie practical and simple ideas for bringing more planning and body kindness into his day to help him practicing being the person he wants to become. - Bernie and I discussed how unhelpful thoughts overpower the best intentions for changing - and how to handle them so they don’t run roughshod over you.
• We begin to touch on the idea of food addiction - is it real or is it just a habit?
• We tackled a great a question from a listener in Sad in Chicago, who wanted to know: how she can embrace intuitive eating if she doesn’t trust herself to make healthy choices?
• I share a story about a new client who struggles with perfectionism and how it gets in the way of her body kindness practice. And I invite listeners to share their challenges with emotional eating to address in a future show.
• Bernie has been working on his appetite awareness using my Hunger Scale - http://bit.ly/hungernumber
• In the news this week: A new study has found that negative messages about “bad” foods (e.g. “Red meat is bad for you!”) can trigger feelings of rebellion and make you want to eat those foods. - http://on.fb.me/1oDftXF
• We announced our new monthly Body Kindness Book Club… join us! Our first selection is of course... Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. Grab a copy of the book, or take the audio version for a walk , and tune in next episode for our discussion - http://amzn.to/1WDcwB1
• Boost Your Mood With Body Kindness Challenge Continuing this month’s challenge of Boost Your Mood With Body Kindness, I gave some tips on how to boost your mood with exercise. When our mood is low a workout is often the first thing we drop from our to do list. But that’s actually when it can help the most, delivering energy and endorphins.
• For full show notes visit bodykindnessbook.com

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