Tag Comfort Eating
Winter is Coming: 4 tips to beating the “Winter Blues”
Winter is Coming… Scratch that, it’s already here…. (without Jon Snow, The Dragon Queen or any White Walkers, for those of you that caught my Game of Thrones nod). I feel like over the last week it’s almost constantly rained…
Eat for Happiness: 5 Rules
Take notice, an American psychiatrist, Dr Drew Ramsey (MD) has been one of the loudest spokespeople advocating for more attention to the link between our diet and our master mood regulator – the brain. With epidemic levels of obesity and…
SBS “What’s The Right Diet For You?: Reflections on Season 1 Episode 1.
Recently I have been watching a program on SBS called “What’s the Right Diet for you.” This is a 3 part program which highlights how understanding the brain helps us discover what makes us comfort eat. 75 over-eater volunteers across…
Body image, the media and unhealthy eating patterns.
In our Western society, we are so often encouraged to believe that our success is defined by our ability to fit into a fiercely false, unhealthy and superficial mold of idealized perfection. It is no wonder so many of us…
3 Tips to beat the winter bulge, by recognising emotional eating, and honing into your intuitive eating abilities
Winter is such a beautiful time of the year With the autumn leaves changing colour and falling, days getting shorter, our gardens getting greener, and with the cooler weather, a change in our eating and drinking patterns can also emerge.…
Understanding how stress leads to overeating and procrastination
With many of my clients coming upon mid-year university exams in a matter of weeks, I thought now would be timely to reflect upon the way stress can play out during exam time for school and university students, as well…
Emotional eating, what’s eating you? Part 2
Last week I highlighted what emotional eating is, how it can be a very normal process, but also what to look out for if you have concerns with your eating habits and patterns and suspect they could be symptomatic of deeper…
Emotional eating, what’s eating you? Part 1
Do you find yourself turning to food when stressed? Do you find yourself automatically scouring the pantry or fridge when bored? Do you seek comfort in food when sad? These are scenarios many of us will be familiar with and…
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