FFF 045: Understanding Emotional Eating & The Psychology Of Food Binges - with Dr Tracey Devonport
The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living
Scott Baptie
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What is emotional eating? From a craving that won’t go away, to eating when stressed at work, to celebrating success with a piece of cake, we all are emotional eaters.
However, some people turn to food for the wrong reasons and it can result in growing waistlines and unhealthy food associations.
In this episode of the podcast, Sport and Exercise Psychologist Dr Tracey Devonport explains the causes of emotional eating and how you can combat it. We’ll cover food cravings, being mindful, tips to combat eating when stressed, how to prevent children becoming emotional eaters, the difference between overeating and binge eating, the causes and symptoms of binge eating, the willpower consequences of being overly restrictive, why chronic dieting can lead to cycles of poor eating and lots more.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon? |
| 0:04.0 | Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice |
| 0:09.0 | based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better. |
| 0:15.0 | You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze. |
| 0:19.0 | We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the largest impact. |
| 0:23.2 | Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome to episode 45 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by foodfor |
| 0:39.7 | fitness.co.uk. |
| 0:41.5 | I'm your host, Scott Bapte, and this week my guest is Dr. Tracy Devonport. |
| 0:47.0 | Now, Tracy is colleagues with Professor Andy Lane, who is on episode 39 of the podcast, |
| 0:51.9 | and Andy was talking all about the psychology of eating and why we eat |
| 0:55.5 | what we do and what causes overeating. Tracy is going to be talking about a similar topic. In this |
| 1:01.3 | episode, we'll be examining emotional eating and the psychology behind food binges. So we'll be |
| 1:07.4 | examining exactly what is emotional eating, what causes it, the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger, food addiction, some of the tricks you can use to take away cravings and some of the coping methods you can use. |
| 1:21.0 | And then we'll also be looking at binge eating. |
| 1:23.4 | Exactly what is binge eating, what are some of the triggers, why it can sometimes be associated |
| 1:30.4 | with restriction, looking at some of the signs and symptoms, some of the effects, and how you can |
| 1:35.9 | essentially work towards beating binge eating and any emotional eating disorders as well. |
| 1:42.7 | So it's a really informative podcast. |
| 1:44.6 | I really think you like it if you've liked this one. |
| 1:47.3 | Sorry, if you liked the one with Andy Lane, episode 39. |
| 1:50.5 | And also, if you liked the episode with Naya Shanks, |
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