Oh, yeah.

Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the podcast.

I am recording this from my bed in Oceanside.

We are away for a week-long trip, and I didn't record in advance.

But luckily, I have a mic with me, and I'm glad that it turned out this way because I get to kind of talk from a place of where I'm at right now, because we do travel a lot. And I get DMs all the

time from people thanking me for addressing how the nervous system contributes to overeating.

I think when we look back and we notice the times in which we are overeating,

we have to also realize the state that our body is in

when we feel like we need to eat to make things feel better,

aka to eat to regulate.

And vacations are one of the biggest times

when I felt like I needed to eat to regulate.

And what I coach my clients on very often are social events,

where there's like the social anxiety and other people are eating and I'm done

and it just feels uncomfortable.

Like these times when we are in these environments that perhaps are not super

familiar to us, aren't situations that we're in all of the time, and we notice that our system

is really activated. And old habits come up. And old habits came up for me. Binge eating used to be a given for traveling.

It was like, now remember in my normal life I was always overeating.

I just never knew when enough was enough.

I just thought that enough meant you couldn't eat anymore.

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