What You Tell Yourself About Stress Eating – In Session with Marc David

The Psychology of Eating Podcast

Marc David

Nutrition, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we explore stress eating – a type of emotional eating – from the perspective of eating psychology.

But first, for those unfamiliar with the term 'eating psychology,' a quick definition: eating psychology is the study of our thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about food and body. It's a positive and transformational approach that views our eating challenges as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Stress eating has a huge psychological component to it. Whether we're conscious of it or not, our daily stresses can be a HUGE driver behind emotional eating.

But the key is understanding that it's not really our circumstances that drive us to emotional eating. It's the negative and anxious thoughts we have about those circumstances that often cause us to turn to food.

Reaching for junk foods – frequently carbohydrate-rich foods like chips, cookies, and candies – is a quick and effective way to quickly relieve stress. The only problem is that the "feel good" feeling doesn't last, and we can gain weight or develop health issues over the long term.

Most of us know this, and we feel guilty and ashamed for what we perceive as "giving in" or being weak around food. And here's the clincher: shame will often lead us to feel we must be punished for being "bad." Ironically, an exceedingly common way of self-punishing is with food: eating more "bad" food to punish ourselves for being "bad" with food to begin with.

Kind of crazy, right?!

If you can relate, then tune in to hear Marc work with guest coaching client Denise on how to "graduate" from the self-punishment cycle behind emotional eating.

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Ready to call a ceasefire in your battle with eating, and find peace and freedom with food? Learn more about our newest program, The Emotional Eating Breakthrough, set to release in early 2023! https://learn.psychologyofeating.com/

Interested in becoming a certified coach in eating psychology? Then tune in to hear Marc talk about our Mind Body Eating Coach Certification Training, and download a copy of our School Catalog: https://psychologyofeating.com/info-kit/ Learn our powerful, cutting-edge approach, and discover how you can create a unique career helping others find peace and freedom with food.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Psychology of Eating podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life.
0:11.0	Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David.
0:29.4	Welcome, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.
0:35.8	We are in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I am here today with Denise. Welcome, Denise.
0:55.9	Thank you. Hi, Mark. I'm so glad we're here. I'm so glad we're doing this together. The ideas you and I haven't met before and we're going to do a session together and see if we can help move you forward in a good way. So if you could wave your magic wand and you can get whatever you wanted with food and body,
0:57.0	what would that be for you?
1:06.3	I think my ultimate wish would be to figure out what my natural weight is because my weight has been pretty much all over the place for the past couple years for different reasons and to then be
1:13.5	able to consistently eat in a way that's best for me because I've just had so many outside
1:21.3	influences on the way that I eat just to press myself in knowing what's best for my body and my food choices.
1:31.9	Got it. So you want to sort of discover, determine what's your natural weight and then how do you
1:40.7	best eat so you can live there? Right. Okay. That makes perfect sense. So how long have you
1:51.8	noticed that your weight has fluctuated? Well, I've always, I was pretty a natural kind of healthy weight up until I got into my 20s.
2:05.6	And then I progressively just gained weight every year.
2:10.1	I was never like a yo-yoer where I would go up and down until I had weight loss surgery about eight years ago and I had a lot of complications
2:21.9	with the surgery, had to have a second surgery, had obstructed bowel surgery. And so within the last
2:31.0	eight years, my weight has fluctuated over 100 pounds up and down.
2:38.6	So now I feel really confused as to where my natural weight is.
2:45.9	And I get a lot of outside information and different ideas from different things.
2:56.3	But then I start to obsess about it.
2:59.1	And it causes a lot of stress as far as then it's like I don't even want to think about eating at all.
3:07.8	So the weight loss surgery happened. did you say eight years ago?
3:12.0	Yes.
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