Outrageously Healthy

Overwhelm is something that we can’t always avoid, and it can be a major trigger for emotional eating, overeating, or bingeing. While it’s great to have strategies for staying out of overwhelm, sometimes–no matter how skilled or proactive or positive we are–overwhelm just plain happens.

A colleague sent me a gift recently. She sent me a timer. She didn’t have to explain what it was for, because I know her strategy. She’s about getting big things done by making them Read more…

Stress eating, boredom eating, comfort eating—even eating as a way of celebrating—these patterns often sneak up on women who are busy caring for their families, their businesses, and their complicated lives. My clients sometimes tell me that it feels like the pounds slipped back on when they got busy and were “looking the other way.”

Here are three tips to keep emotional eating at bay:

1. Be proactive with your life. Emotional eating often happens when we feel like we Read more…

Did you ever notice strawberries are crunchy?

Until I started to live more consciously I really hadn’t noticed that strawberries crunched when I ate them, I just thought they were a soft delicious fruit.

I know I can easily become ‘unconscious’ when I eat. At these times I just keep piling food into my mouth and before I know it my plate is empty and I think I want more. At these times I would often be eating whilst doing something else Read more…

Every now and again you come across someone who seems to be speaking to you in a language you understand, maybe reminding you of some forgotten truth you’ve buried deep inside. Gillian Hood-Gabrielson is one of those people, awakening your inner connection to your natural appetite, that intuitive knowing that has been buried underneath all the silly diet rules and conditioning of your life to date. You know the ones, ‘eat everything on your plate or you can’t have dessert’, Read more…