Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

As a psychoanalyst specializing in eating disorders, I’ve heard countless stories about the misguided and often harmful advice people receive about binge eating solutions. The impact of this advice can be profound, leaving people feeling misunderstood and unsupported. To shed light on this issue, I asked my Facebook group to share the worst advice they’ve been given. The responses were …

Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

If you’re struggling with emotional eating or binge eating, you’ve probably experienced this: You start a new diet or healthy eating plan with the best of intentions, only to find yourself elbow-deep in a bag of chips a few days later. Or maybe you make progress for a while, but then you stop being healthy and start turning to food …

Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

Binge eating can leave you feeling overwhelmed, guilty, and out of control. After a binge, it’s easy to fall into self-criticism and despair, which is all too often followed by more binge eating. It is possible to break that vicious cycle. Whether you’re dealing with this for the first time or it’s an ongoing struggle, knowing what to do after …

Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

Have you ever had thoughts like this?  โ€œIโ€™ll be happy when I lose weight.โ€ โ€œWhen I stop binging, Iโ€™ll be happy.โ€ As an emotional eating therapist, I have heard that many times. Actually, the opposite is true: when weโ€™re happy, we tend to lose weight and/or stop binge eating. So, consider whatโ€™s stopping you from feeling happy. Are you yearning …

Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

Uncovering the “signs of emotional eating” can be a journey of self-discovery. It’s like peeling back the layers of an onion, each one revealing something new about our relationship with food and emotions. Many of us have had moments of diving into a pint of ice cream after a stressful day. But when this becomes a habitual response, rather than …

Understanding Emotional Eating Causes: Unveiling the Hidden Causes Behind Your Food Cravings

Does this sound familiar to you? You get into a huge argument with your partner or are rushing to complete a very important deadlineโ€ฆ Before  you know it, youโ€™re grabbing that pint of ice cream or box of leftover pizza in the fridge. And before you know it, that pint of ice cream is gone. Every slice of pizza is …

Breaking the Cycle of Perfectionism and Binge Eating Disorder

Breaking the Cycle of Perfectionism and Binge Eating Disorder

Do you strive to be flawless, set extremely high standards for yourself, and often criticize yourself? If the answer is yes, maybe youโ€™re a perfectionist. Perfectionism is that constant drive to be flawless and avoid failure at all costs. It creates impossibly high standards which leads to harsh self-criticism when we inevitably fall short (as all humans do).  For those …

What You NEED To Know About Comfort Food

Today Iโ€™m going to offer an explanation of why you use food for comfort, and also tell you what you need to do to change. Why food? ย I hear this question a lot. People ask all the time, why can’t they donโ€™t use something else for comfort? They wish they were addicted to exercise (not that I see food as …