Tip for solving emotional and stress eats 🍎

A couple of weeks ago, the reader sent me this question:

I exercise regularly, but I still fight with stress by eating. Where and how do I start dealing with the team?

The chances are, you can connect. How do I know? 1) You’re a man. (Unless you are a robot … in which case: Hi, and please don’t turn us into batteries like Matrix 👋)

2) When we work with clients, they meet the vacuuming questionnaire so we can learn more about them, their goals, which are their biggest challenges.

Emotional dish and stress is The The most common challenge Our clients report – more than time, motivation or even not knowing what to do.

If anything, we eat when we feel emphasized the thing that most of us have in common!

Emotional dish and eating stress are complex behaviors, and in different ways they appear for a lot of people. Until I’m a therapist or registered dietitian, I can Share some forms and strategies we have seen helping others as part of our coaching work in NERD Fitness.

It said, if these behaviors feel particularly intense or irresistible, I want to admit that working with a licensed mental health professioner (especially someone dressed in an unregulated dish) can be really valuable. The therapy here can be a game gearbox, and our trainers often work in tandem with therapists to make sure our work supports what they do. ❤️

With everything that is stated, we explore a few practices within our coaching range we have seen help. 🙌

One of the most powerful things you can do is just pause and notice What happens when you find you eating reflexively.

Is that stress? Exhaustion? Boredom? Frustration? Hunger? Just because it’s a time of day?

It’s not about stopping the behavior immediately – just becomes all more more aware.

I was literally people saying it aloud as they feel at the moment: “I just had a stress interaction with my colleague, and my instinct is to reach something crisp.”

Once we understand our behavior better, we can use some other strategies to discuss help.

Although sometimes, this step I am sufficient! I remember my client Liz told me that this unique practice was so powerful, she helped her act in a way she feels good (although it wasn’t intended!)

2 Proactive Self-Popping (AKA Your Diet Menu)

Many emotional stems for eating from unsatisfied needs – fatigue, loneliness, stress, overdrafting.

That is why we recommend the construction of the “Test Menu”: a list of small, intentional activities that help you fill. Reading, stretching, reaper, walking outside. Whatever truly helps you.

Choose one thing from that list every day to exercise a proactive single.

My client sign often found reaching for snacks at the end of the day while watching TV, although technically disappeared.

We realized that part of the trigger for him feeling like Did not receive any time for herself during imports in southern dayAnd so was this decompression at the end of the night important for him.

Whenever he tried just to fight with “discipline,” it would withdraw and could not endure it.

Until we had time for small pockets of other filling activities earlier during the day that they meet basically, and the stress eat at the end of the day was easier change.

3 Use “always” and “sometimes” language

Useful Reframe We often use: Instead of denoting food as “good” or “bad”, you mean them as “always” or “sometimes” food or “sometimes” food.

“Always” food support your goals and energy consistently. These are the things you want to include regularly in your meals and snacks.

“Sometimes” food remains great opportunities for enjoyment, we simply decide to eat with less frequency than our “all the time” food.

The key is here: No food is not from the table, permanent.

Many times I hear people say things are like: “I’ll finish with this pound of ice cream that is left in the freezer, and then it’s not ice cream!”

While I know it is well-intentioned, this ends back in almost any case.

While we want to be realistic about the types and quantities of foods that support your goals, we want to build a healthy food that does not necessarily have to need it as “good” versus “bad”.

And this Refram can help.

4. Introduce Step Step

Then it’s time to experiment with the break step.

If you notice a strong urge to eat in response to stress, try insert a small break. We usually recommend finding something else in five minutes.

This could go for a short walk, listening to music, beautifying your workspace, everything.

Then you can ask yourself:

“Am I physically hungry or something else is going on?”

Sometimes that break is enough to redirect an instinct or at least bring some awareness of what drives it.

Then you can give aware of the choice instead of reacting to autopilot.

Then we learn and build from there.

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If the dish is stress something you fought with, you are not alone (and we have data to prove it!)

And if you are not sure where to run, choose one step from the list above and see how it feels.

You have this.

-Matt

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