Emotional eaters typically lack the coping skills necessary to deal with stress, pain, fear, and loneliness and so they use food as a drug to deal with them. Typically, their diet is far from healthy and depending on how often they use food to cope with life, it can be downright harmful. Many times, emotional eaters do not know what a healthy diet looks like because they are stuck in the vicious cycle of binging when life’s problems becoming too overwhelming.

It needs to be nutrient-dense and based on whole foods, not processed or refined foods. It needs to be nourishing and meet the individual needs of the person eating it, particularly athletic performance. 

It needs to be nutrient-dense and based on whole foods, not processed or refined foods. It needs to be nourishing and meet the individual needs of the person eating it, particularly athletic performance. 

But we all know those tasty treats can’t take away the stress! Most women who struggle with emotional eating feel guilty and trapped afterward, which only perpetuates the “weight hate” cycle.

Monitoring your stress levels, using a scale, is one way to ensure that you recognize and acknowledge that stress exists in your life and makes you aware of how your body is feeling at that moment.

Monitoring stress allows you to implement the appropriate relaxation techniques (i.e. breath work) to help you become resilient and positively adapted.