Emotional eating blog posts

The explosive popularity of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro has done more than shrink waistlines—it’s quietly reshaping entire sectors of the economy. As [...]

The curators at ThriveGlobal.com selected this post for their platform. Start with the gut, use ‘afformations’ and reflect on your childhood to move forward positively. [...]

Emotional Eating Is Never About Food Breakups, money woes, and stress at work can all trigger emotional eating But real reasons for gorging on food [...]

1. Observe the emotions that might be triggering you to overeat. Learning to check in with how you’re feeling increases your intuition and self-awareness. Taking [...]

Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for severe obesity, but it can have unintended negative psycho-social consequences, including an increased risk of alcohol use disorder [...]

Perkbox a UK-based employee benefits provider, commissioned research into the incidence of comfort eating with male and female workers and found women are nearly twice [...]

A recent article in a Middle Eastern newspaper detailed the daily strategies a woman went through to make sure she didn’t succumb to her self-acclaimed [...]

When the then Kim Kardashian-West faced recent controversy over some paid-for content on her Instagram feed. She was photographed posing coquettishly with a lollipop in [...]

In an article from the New England Journal of Medicine in the early 1990s, ten overweight people were asked to estimate their calorie intake. Their [...]

If you graze and snack all through the day, it's easy to be confused about whether you are physically hungry or just fake hungry. Grazing [...]

‘When I signed up for therapy with Sally, I was already on the waiting list for a gastric band operation. Major abdominal surgery was something [...]

Emotional Eating Q & A with Examiner.comExaminer.com journalist Betty Russell poses her questions to therapist Sally Baker about her work to transform emotional eating into [...]

​To understand the mindset of an emotional eater, it is vital to understand that their sense of self-worth is directly linked to the numbers on [...]

A young mother struggled to balance the needs of her two children, her relationship with her husband, and her own fears of inadequacy. She was [...]

​ Too much on your plate? Swallowing down your anger with food? Frustrated at your yo-yo dieting? Eating when bored, or on your own? Feeling [...]

From our work as therapists with thousands of clients Liz Hogon and I have compiled for you the key insights we have discovered as 7 [...]

Changing just a few of your eating habits can help you lose weight without resorting to the four letter D**t word. All it takes is [...]

Some people are confused and amazed at their excess weight as they are barely aware of how often they eat, or even what they eat. [...]

Imagine if your fat could speak, what would it want to say to you.Here is a wonderful and intuitive way to find out.Find some time [...]

​ Your greatest wealth is your health and well-being The excess weight you carry, or your disordered eating habits, are simply a consequence of you [...]

For many people, the natural life-affirming act of eating for nourishment has developed into something far more complex, and even fundamentally self-destructive. Emotional eating is [...]

​ Anyone wanting to lose weight can’t imagine sabotaging their own weight-loss success, but that is exactly what so many dieters do time and time [...]

As well as seeing yo-yo dieters who have battled for years with a cycle of weight-loss and inevitable weight-gain, I also regularly see clients who [...]

Breakups, money woes and stress at work can all trigger emotional eating But real reasons for gorging on food are more deep-rooted, say experts From [...]