You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 40.

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

And today and every Tuesday, I'm going to be here to coach you and teach you

how to end your emotional eating,

how to bust through your binges,

and how to leave all your overeating habits in the past.

Welcome back.

And if you're a new listener, I'm really glad you found me.

Today, we're going to take a look at the connection between stress and your eating.

Really, we're looking at your overeating. So let's dive right into our coaching session.

Have you ever said that you're a stress eater? Have you ever automatically taken out those cookies after a challenging day at work?

When you have conditioned yourself to reach for food, when you feel the emotion of stress,

then you've experienced stress eating.

And stress eating is frustrating because you think you can't stop as long as this stressful situation is happening in your life, right?

That is usually the way that you think. So here's what we're going to talk about today.

We're going to talk about what stress is and how it shows up in your life, in your mind and in your body. And we're going to talk about

why you may have connected stress with eating or overeating in the first place.

Then we can begin to take a look at what steps you can take to disconnect your eating from your stressful mood

and how to view your stress differently.

And later in the next episode we will continue with more depth about how to not eat when you're stressed. So let's look at this first. What is stress?

Well I know that you probably can get that pit of your stomach feeling as I even say the word when you think about something in your life that's

stressful, right? So stress is the reaction in your body to a harmful or threatening situation. Now it could be something that you're

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