Do you feed your hunger or do you feed your feelings?

The primary reason why some people overeat or reach for food for comfort is because they currently have an emotion or feeling that is unpleasant.

And that's exactly the reason why they reach for food is because they want to feel a sudden relief from that unpleasantness, they want some comfort.

What can you do?

Every time you feel compelled to reach for food for comfort, take a moment to investigate what triggered your urge.

To manage emotional eating, you have to identify your emotional eating pattern, take note of what you're feeling in the moment you're reaching for the food.

This will help you manage your emotions and the patterns that triggers you to emotional eat.

FIND OTHER HEALTHY WAYS TO FEED YOUR FEELINGS
To stop emotional eating, you have to find other ways you can fulfill yourself emotionally in healthy and helpful ways.

If you're feeling lonely, sad or depressed, play your favourite music, play with your pet, or call someone...

In this FB live, we'll talk about the steps you can do when you can't resist the urge to eat chocolate.

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Are you a fridge raider?
Stuck at home and can't stop eating?

In this live, we'll talk about the things that you can do to avoid massive weight gain during tough times.

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I recently got a question saying,

"Katie, why is it easier to create bad habits than creating and sticking to good ones?

That's a pretty fair question, isn't it?

Why is it so hard to create and stick to good habits and very easy to slip or relapse back to the old bad ones?

If you can relate to this, I invite to watch this video I recently made where I talked about this topic.

I just thought it would interest you or you might know someone who will.

If you find this video helpful, please it to your friends, give me a thumbs up so I would know that this content is something you are interested in.

In the meantime, love what you create.

Which one of these do you think is the worst for your health?

Is it;

McDonald's fries every day
Alcohol every day
Chocolate every day or
Stress every day?

According to NASD, 90% of illnesses and diseases are stress-related that can interfere with your physical functioning and body processes.

We all know that stress makes you put on weight not only from the cortisol that it throws into your system but it also makes you reach for food.

If you manage your stress and if you feel relaxed, you wouldn't be looking for those things to soothe you.

A happy person makes better decisions.

But stress is a part of life. When things don't go the way we plan and things don't work the way want, we get frustrated and it makes us cranky. And it is our job to manage our stress levels and not go straight to frustration.

It's all about;

Understanding why you're feeling what your feeling
Become aware of your feelings
Change your return

When you can take charge of your emotions, feelings and, you...

Are you stuck in a continuous battle against weight gain?

Are you giving your everything to your weight loss program and diet but you just can’t stop eating!? And you end up crying? It's frustrating, isn't it?

If you’re like me, you’ve spent thousands of dollars, tried everything and thought there must be something wrong with you because no matter what you try, you’re bewildered why you find yourself right back where you started, every single time.

I spent 25 years yo-yo dieting. Sometimes I could lose the weight and keep it off for a few years and sometimes I couldn’t stick to a diet for 5 minutes let alone lose weight.

The thing that I battled with the most was emotional and impulse eating. I was bewildered by my own behaviours and nobody could tell me what was driving it or how to stop it.

After 30 years of research, I’ve mastered the beast! And my mission is to share my experiences and help others to step into their most extraordinary life with choices, freedom, and control.

I’m always asked for easy dietless living tips, and one of the easiest first steps to changing your eating habits, patterns and behaviours is to actually enjoy the food that you eat. 

Developing a great relationship with food is the same as any other relationship. It needs

• Your attention
• You to be present when you’re with it
• To stop judging it
• To not complain about it
• To have loving feelings towards it (rather than resentment) 

Here are 7 tips to help you do that and help you lose weight naturally. 

#1 SET THE SCENE, EAT AT THE TABLE 

You’ve heard that it’s best to eat at the table rather than in front of the TV haven’t you? 

This is so you concentrate on eating rather than absent mindedly eating while focusing on the TV/computer/driving/etc. 

Whether you’re eating with the family or eating alone, eating at the table gives your brain an important message. It tells your brain that

1. it’s going to be enjoying a...

Are you preparing not to succeed? 

Diet cookbooks are helping you to do just that. 

I saw a cookbook today, on the big glossy cover were 4 photos of sensational looking food and the title of the book was “Healthy Snacks” with the sub text saying Eat Healthy & Lose Weight. 

TO SNACK OR NOT TO SNACK 

You don’t need to make healthy snacks, if you eat a meal (not a snack) when you’re hungry, eat food with nutritional value and eat until you are full, there is no need for “snacks”. 

Snacks are foods you eat because you’re;

• Skipping meals 

• Eating low nutritional foods 

• Not eating enough food to feel satisfied 

• Or they are something you eat because you feel compelled to eat to relieve stress, boredom, anger or some other physiological or psychological response

PREPARING NOT TO SUCCEED 

If you’re on a diet and you prepare the so called healthy...