Hello, you are listening to the ESG Fitness podcast. I'm very glad you're here. Today's topic is

stress eating and that's because it's something I see come up a lot and one of if not by far the

biggest barrier people face when they're trying to lose body fat is the psychological

side.

It's not so much knowing the calories they should eat or lack of knowledge around nutrition.

It's the application of what they know they should be doing in order to get the results that they want.

Fat loss is a simple equation,

but that certainly doesn't mean that actioning it is easy.

And today I want to talk about stress eating,

and I've spoken about this in numerous forms before,

and I'm sure I've done posts on it,

and you could replace stress eating with

emotionally eating. We've been through different ways of dealing with this, self-compassion being

fundamental as well as sitting with your feelings and acknowledging that you don't need to act on

them or finding other coping mechanisms,

so not just always turning to food for comfort.

But one of the problems with finding other coping mechanisms

is that they can actually become a stress in themselves.

So I'm sure that everyone listening to this will have felt stressed about the fact

they've not been able to find time to work out.

And then what was once your coping mechanism to deal with

stress is now just adding to your stress. So in this episode, I want to focus on stress because I think

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