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If so, it’s worth considering whether emotional eating is getting in the way of your healthy eating and weight loss goals.

We all eat emotionally. Read more…

The after-dinner hours are a prime time for overeating, emotional eating, boredom eating, and eating out of tiredness.  Not only do the calories add up, preliminary research may support the theory that our bodies actually put on more weight from calories eaten at night.

In a study that will be published in the October issue of Obesity magazine, researchers at Northwestern University studied two groups of mice who were fed identical high-fat diets.  Half the mice were fed during the Read more…

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…

Worries about money, the economy, income levels, and finances are behind many women’s stress eating and overeating these days.  In a recent group coaching call, every participant’s dominant concern boiled down to money worries of one form or another.  Even if your own financial situation is secure, the worries, stress, and difficulties of others surround us in a big way.

Feeling out of control, anxious, worried, or unhappy are all triggers for emotional eating, Here are some tips to keep 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…

Cyndi O’Meara is the author of “Changing Habits-Changing Lives” and is a very passionate nutritionist. Cyndi’s focus is on holistic food quality rather than the quantity of food or the components of food such as fat, carbohydrate and protein.?Cyndi’s upbringing is the foundation for her passion and career choice. Her father was a pharmacist who became disillusioned with his profession and went to America to learn about Chiropractic and its philosophy of Vitalism.  Cyndi’s parents decided that, unless it was Read more…

Amanda Moxley is a Body and Soul Coach empowering women around the globe to love their bodies through food and inner work.  Recently she was an expert guest in the Outrageously Healthy Women Series; here is some of what she had to share with us –

Step One is really about choosing love not fear. Connecting with our memory of the first time we felt ‘not whole or perfect’ and shining a light on it. Maybe it was being teased Read more…

I had the opportunity to interview Angie Tousignant about her Book ‘More Love, Less Fat’ and the program she and Scott Tousignant, her husband, have created together to help couples tranform their bodies and their relationships.

For many couples their reality dictates that as one is heading out the door for their workout the other is ‘stuck’ at home with the kids, perhaps missing out on theirs. This often generates a feeling of resentment and imbalance in the relationship. Angie Read more…

Have you ever found yourself at the end of a meal reaching for more and realized that you hadn’t tasted a thing y’d eaten? Or perhaps mindlessly munched through a packet of something while watching a movie? I know I can easily become ‘unconscious’ when I eat. Often it’s because I am eating whilst doing something else – talking, watching TV, checking my email – and, of course, paying little or no attention whatsoever to what I am putting into my Read more…