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

Ever feel like food is your best friend and worst enemy? No matter how hard you try, you end up wondering: Why can’t I stop eating? In reality, it’s not really about the food—it’s about why you’re eating, not what you’re eating. In this blog, we’ll explore how deprivation fuels binge eating, why being kinder to yourself matters, and what …

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

Today, I’m answering the question: What happens when you quit sugar for eight weeks? Many people expect this will be something of a detox and that they will lose weight, feel more energetic, and even stop binge eating. But what if the real transformation isn’t about your body but your mind?  In this article, I’m unpacking the physical, emotional, and …

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

Do you ever plow through an entire family sized bag of chips or order an extra-large pizza and wonder why you can’t control your eating? You likely feel frustrated, blaming yourself for the food choices. It’s easy to think the problem is binge eating. But what if binge eating isn’t the problem at all? What if it’s actually the solution …

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

Have you ever felt like you’re constantly putting others before yourself, leaving your own needs unmet? If you also struggle with binge eating or emotional eating, it’s possible that you take care of everyone else and food takes care of you. This article, “How to Put Yourself First Every Day,” will equip you with practical advice to balance caring for …

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

Many people struggle with body image, believing they need to have a “better” body before they feel good about themselves. It is possible to feel better about your body while you’re in the process of improving your health or losing weight.   The Buddha says, “Cherish your body. It is yours this one time only.” Many people yearn to have a …

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

Have you ever had thoughts like this?  “I’ll be happy when I lose weight.” “When I stop binging, I’ll be happy.” As an emotional eating therapist, I have heard that many times. Actually, the opposite is true: when we’re happy, we tend to lose weight and/or stop binge eating. So, consider what’s stopping you from feeling happy. Are you yearning …