Our guest, Tricia Nelson, lost fifty pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating. Tricia is the author of the #1 bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger, 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. She is also the host of the popular podcast, The Heal Your Hunger Show. Tricia is a TEDx speaker, a highly regarded coach, and featured on The List, NBC, CBS, KTLA, FOX, and Discovery Health.
Show Notes
In This Episode:
- Tricia has spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of food addiction.
- Trica shares her personal journey of losing 50 pounds and discovering a lot of it was tied into emotional eating and what were some of the linchpins that caused her emotional eating.
- We talk about the PEP formula that helps people identify if they are emotionally eating.
- Painkiller - we know what food does for us but we need to look at what it does to us.
- Escape - emotional eaters tend to be overthinkers.
- Punishment - emotional eaters tend to beat themselves up over eating foods they enjoy.
- We talk about healthy alternatives to using food as a painkiller, escape, or punishment.
- We also discuss some of the science behind these behaviors.
- How can you tell the difference between an emotional eater and a food addict?
- We discuss the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger.
- The "C's" for emotional eating
- Clean - eating clean
- Centeredness - put money in your spiritual bank account
- Community
- Communicate - say it doesn't stuff it
- Conscienceness - so we don't feel isolated
- Causes - understand the emotional causes
- Three things you can do for a transformation
- Do something in the morning to connect with your source
- Look for areas of stress that you can cut out of your life tied to busyness
- Stop weighing yourself so frequently and learn to not be in diet mode.
Quotes from This Episode:
- I think a lot of people who might be listening might be saying, Hey, I'm not an emotional eater. I just like food. Because that was me., I thought "that's a stupid term. That's not me. But after I heard the information, I started to observe my behavior around food and realized that I was different.
- Carbs and sugar are like a blanket we put on our feelings.
- It's not an eating problem it's a living problem.
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What is Fire Within Nutrition and Fitness?
If you want to transform your life with nutrition and fitness, there are no shortcuts. You need a sustainable plan: the right mindset, and the knowledge and inspiration to stoke the fire within. Just like the Phoenix, you can burn your old habits, never turn back, and emerge anew.