Feb 20, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
I often talk about the diet pendulum in relation to dieting and bingeing. The analogy being the Law of Dieting: for every equal and opposite diet, there is a binge (hence the pendulum swinging back and forth.) But how do we stop the swing? And how can we apply this to...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC My philosophy is always to ditch the diet. Diets are restrictive, rigid, and set up for us to fail. If you go on something, inevitably, you go off, left wondering what was wrong...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach Work can be a big emotional eating trigger for many women. In my very first office job, my coworker next door had a candy dish filled with...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Wondering how to stop boredom and emotional eating? In this post I’ll cover 10 tips that my clients and I have used to put an end to emotional eating that’s caused by boredom. Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach,...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach In my own journey, working through emotional eating was a key part of my healing. Addressing emotional eating involves acknowledging the emotional...
Jan 22, 2024 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach 5 Strategies to Help You Stop Emotional Eating 1. Slow down and be mindful Practice being present and aware during meals, focusing on the taste,...
Dec 6, 2023 | Emotions and Eating
I used to ache for what food did for me–take away my pain, soothe my heartbreak and comfort my inner emptiness. How do we move forward on this path and deal with the “hard” stuff when we miss what food does for us? I’ve talked to countless...
Nov 15, 2023 | Emotions and Eating
We all have a perfect idea of how the day should go–we’ll eat these things at these times and we have a plan of what will happen. What happens when life throws you a curve ball? Or something unexpected comes your way? Here are 4 tips to help you roll with...
Nov 3, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, Freedom From Dieting
How diets play a role in emotional eating isn’t something that’s well understood by many women who struggle with emotional eating. But if you want to get out of the cycle of yo-yo dieting and bingeing and restricting, then understanding how diets can be...
Nov 3, 2023 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach How to Not “Give In” to Emotional Eating The best approach to breaking free from emotional eating is a holistic one, so here are a few tips to not “give in”...
Nov 3, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC, Emotional Eating Coach How To Use Yoga To Overcome Emotional Eating Does yoga help in controlling emotions? Yoga is an amazing tool to help us deal with our complex emotional world. In...
Nov 3, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What Defines Emotional Eating? What is an emotional eater? Emotional eating is turning to food for other reasons besides physical hunger and to soothe, distract or numb out from a...