How to Actually Spot Emotional Eating in the Moment - (216)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell guides listeners through their journey to address emotional eating.
Chris, who has successfully lost 125 pounds, reveals the intricacies of emotional eating and how it is often mistakenly treated as a chemical addiction rather than a psychological compulsion.
Through listener questions from the Becoming Thin Facebook group, Chris explores topics such as the difference between harmless emotional eating and harmful patterns, and how to spot and interrupt emotional eating in real-time.
Chris offers practical advice, emphasizing awareness, self-honesty, and compassion in navigating the habit of emotional eating, aiming to help listeners create meaningful changes in their lifestyle and attitudes toward food.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:17 Listener Questions and Emotional Eating Series
02:38 Understanding Emotional Eating as a Psychological Compulsion
05:47 Differentiating Between Healthy and Problematic Emotional Eating
07:21 Recognizing Emotional Eating Patterns
11:10 Listener Question: Recognizing Emotional Eating
25:22 Listener Question: Emotional Eating and Intuitive Eating
35:22 Designated Mealtime Exceptions
35:57 Pre-Planning Treats and Portions
36:37 Recognizing Emotional Eating Patterns
37:34 Building Awareness and Self-Trust
38:16 Investigating Emotional Eating Triggers
44:33 Phases of Emotional Eating
01:01:19 Controlled Enjoyment vs. Emotional Eating
01:05:26 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is a Becoming Thin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:17.6 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you, |
| 0:22.6 | champion? What new challenges did you encounter? But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:28.0 | What lesson did you get from that failure? Come on now. Don't let a perfectly good failure go by |
| 0:33.0 | without you getting your lesson. That's your reward for your troubles, after all. |
| 0:37.0 | Now if you're new here, |
| 0:38.1 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up, down, |
| 0:44.6 | up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat, |
| 0:49.2 | and it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life, lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all six of those things that created the results in my life that I didn't like. And if I wanted to get results in my life that I did like, I was going to need to go change those same six things. And now I'm here each week to help you change those six things so that you can get the |
| 1:11.3 | results in your life that I know that you would like to have. Thanks so much for being here. |
| 1:16.9 | We are continuing our journey of taking listener questions from the Becoming Thin Facebook group. |
| 1:22.5 | You can join that by searching for Becoming Thin on Facebook or heading to Becoming Thin.com. |
| 1:27.6 | You'll find a resources link there with a link to the Facebook group. |
| 1:30.4 | I'd love to have you be a part of that. |
| 1:32.2 | So for the next, well, I was in the Facebook group and I wanted to do an emotional leading episode. |
| 1:38.2 | So I posed the question, put your emotional leading questions here. |
| 1:42.4 | Ask me anything. |
| 1:43.8 | And while the group did deliver |
| 1:46.3 | there were so many questions i've got four maybe five episodes worth of questions um i was |
| 1:54.8 | originally just going to take the handful of my favorites but when i just kept grabbing my favorites |
| 1:59.6 | of like oh i want to answer this one oh i want to one. Oh, this would be so good for people to hear. |
| 2:17.3 | I just, I looked at my list of questions that I curated. I'm like, oh, wow, this is a big list. So I am going to be breaking it up because I want to answer each question with a little degree of detail. And so we're going to do a several this week. |
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