Do you have a healthy relationship with food? Check out how you can develop a healthy relationship with food: Everyone has thought about their weight and body image from time to time. During the past year, under the pandemic restrictions, many of us have become even more familiar with ourselves.
Graze eating is defined as frequent picking or snacking on small amounts of food in an unplanned manner throughout the day.[1] Graze eating can feel either: Mindless: With mindless graze eating, you may not be paying attention to your snacking, but by the end of the day, you realize that
How Trapped Emotions Work and How to Manage Them It might sound strange, but our cravings and emotional eating can actually be a blessing in disguise. If we’re struggling to lose the weight and keep it off, there is likely something deeper going on, possibly trapped emotions. And if we truly
For many people who undergo bariatric surgery, food has become more than just a part of the natural process of eating to fuel a healthy body. Their relationship with food was an issue. Over a lifetime, food has the ability to take on many roles. It soothes emotional discomfort or
Emotional triggers can come in many forms. Triggering emotions can result from a memory, unhealed event, person, place, sound, smell, or experience that provokes a reaction out of the individual. This reaction could be a mood change, an intense tone, or response, and for that battle with food – it
Overcome Stress Eating: Stress is a crisis in America that can affect nearly every aspect of life. In its annual Stress in America survey, the American Psychological Association (APA) looks at the sources of stress and how people are responding to stressors in their lives, both physically and mentally. Overeating
Create Your Emotional Toolkit to Combat Emotional Eating: Do you have an emotional toolkit? Have you ever thought about putting one together that supports you when you want to feed your head hunger (emotional eating)? Using the information below about the complex issue of emotional eating, you CAN combat emotional
You’ve taken a huge leap in deciding to have weight loss surgery. It isn’t uncommon for patients to spend a year or more just considering surgery and doing their research, and select a bariatric surgeon before making the decision to finally undergo bariatric surgery. Take a moment to recognize how
We have many relationships in our lives, such as with a spouse, significant other, family, friends, co-workers, and many others. Have you ever thought about your relationship with food and your food choices? Just as you'd work on a relationship with your partner, family, friend, co-worker, and others in your
Avoiding Verbal Toxicity: Everyone in their lifetime has had experiences of being told painful things about themselves. What people say to you is not in your control; what you do with the message can make a difference to an outcome of self-care or self-harm. Not everything people tell you is
