You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 125.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach, and author Cookie Rosenblum.

Today and every Tuesday I will be your coach and your guide to help you end your

emotional leading and lose that extra weight. If you just found me, welcome and if you're a regular

listener, welcome back. Here is where we talk about your habit of emotional eating, which is the main focus of my whole coaching practice.

This is where coaching meets psychology, and psychology meets brain science science and this is where your problem ends

so get comfy and get ready to be coached.

Before we begin I'd like to remind you that this episode of White Loss Made Real is brought to you by the Freedom Group.

The Freedom Group is a group that I run for smart women, just like you, who are ready to learn how to stop eating from stress and

other emotions and learn how to make space for more happiness in their lives.

You can learn more about the Freedom Group and the show notes of this episode.

Now, let's get started with your coaching session. Today we're going to be working on this thought right before you eat something.

I want to get you thinking to yourself,

will eating this be worth it?

So the goal of today's coaching session is to help you think through making the decision to eat something that you know is not helpful or something that you didn't plan and to decide not from what you want right in that moment,

but to decide from the perspective of what you truly want in the big picture.

That's what counts. That's what will give you the results that you want.

So what happens that causes you to eat off-plan? You plan to eat when you're hungry and stop when you're lightly full, right?

That's always going to be your goal. You plan to manage your moods instead of medicating them with food.

You plan to take care of yourself in many, many ways and just use food for

hunger, pleasurable, but mainly for hunger. So what happens when you eat off those basic plan concepts is that you're strengthening a connection that you don't want.

The connection is between your mood and your food and that's what we call emotional

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