Welcome to the blog lovely humans! It’s a privilege to share my wisdom and expertise on all thing’s mindset for the Anasa community.
This month’s hot topic? Emotional Eating.
You can also watch more about it in my Youtube channel specially made for Anasa here
The frustration of Emotional Eating is real. Your following your plan or ‘being good’ and before you know it you’ve eaten the leftovers and then you’re onto the cake and then we’re starting again Monday…
The feeling that takes over when we want to eat something or drink something can sometimes be SO intoxicating it almost feels automatic or like we’re hypnotised.
If you’ve ever been 7 biscuits deep in a daze or have woken up feeling urgh after overindulgence you know the feeling I’m talking about.
So we know all the extras don’t serve us, we know what to eat so why can’t we stop? That’s what I’m going to answer for you today.
I was an emotional eater for 15 years with emotional drinking creeping in for a good 3 years too. I didn’t overcome these through yet another diet plan, willpower or hope and a prayer and I refused to accept that they were permanent and that I was willing to heal and change.
So my first question for you is to reconsider what if this was actually a mild form of addiction? What if addiction wasn’t just reserved for drugs and alcohol and the labels of junkies and drunks? What if addiction was a sliding scale that was fuelled by the feeling of escape?
Now look, your life might be fabulous as mine was when the drinking started … but it’s not the facts that matter. It’s the feelings. What if life being fabulous isn’t safe just like when it’s hard and it creates a feeling you wanted to escape from?
What we’re escaping or running from isn’t often outside of us it’s usually inside. It’s usually an emotion, feeling or sensation that feels uncomfortable, or one we don’t know how to feel. Very few of us were taught by caregivers or society how to regulate our emotions or nervous system and so we learn to soothe and regulate with outside things: food, alcohol, tv, spending and even people pleasing to help us feel safe, calm and relaxed.
So, then the answer then isn’t to focus on the food and blame and shame ourselves but instead to look within at what emotions, sensations and unprocessed experiences are being triggered and driving this behaviour.
The truth is most of the time the emotional reactions that create the triggered response are completely unconscious. They’re happening without your conscious awareness and that’s how we end up deep in the biscuits yet again.
My clients and I found freedom with food by NOT focusing on food and by instead addressing the root cause of the uncomfortable emotions and learning to heal, feel and process them and you can overcome emotional anything (insert your behaviour here) eating, drinking, spending, watching, sleeping etc by healing the root cause of your emotional discomfort and learning how to feel and process it fully.
So what now? Well I made you this mini masterclass on how to overcome emotional eating just for the Anasa Family so that you can take steps to shifting out of emotional eating and into the lifestyle and behaviours of your conscious choice.
Any questions feel free to email: [email protected] and don’t forget all Anasa members unlock 10% discount on any first purchase of product, programme or package at lucysuperfox.com.
See you in the studio!
Lucy
