Six Steps for Overcoming Emotional Eating

What if you didn’t have to struggle in overcoming emotional eating?

What if your life were no longer riddled with guilt and shame about the food you eat?

What if you had the power to start feeling better today?

You don’t. It can be. You do.

My name is Christie Inge, I am The Intuitive Eating Coach.

But more importantly than who I am professionally, I want you to first and foremost know that I have been where you are.

Here is the thing. If you are anything like I once was, the usual diets, self-help books, blogs, support groups and all that other stuff just doesn’t seem to work. There always seems to be a massive disconnect from knowing and doing. Well, the reason that stuff doesn’t work is simple – nothing out there seems to address all facets of what it is really like when overcoming emotional eating.

That is why I have my approach to overcoming emotional eating – for real and for good. I promise you it is like nothing you have seen or tried before. It encompasses the best tools of what I learned along my personal path in overcoming emotional eating as well as everything I have learned in my professional training. My approach embodies the belief that overcoming emotional eating must includes mind, body, spirit and emotions.

You don’t have to do this alone.

I can help.

Six Steps for Overcoming Emotional Eating

1. Know the Why – I have had client after client ask me why the why matters. Everyone seems to want to skip that part and just get to the not overeating part already. Well, knowing your why is the key to your being successful at overcoming emotional eating. Only when you understand why you do something do you have the ability to change it.
2. And no, I’m not talking about your traumatic childhood. Your parents divorce. Being bullied in school. I’m talking about learning how to handle your thoughts and emotions in a new way. I call this “doing the work” and you will need to learn these tools if you want this to be your last attempt at overcoming emotional eating.
3. It is important that you learn how to trust your body again. Many women feel like they have been betrayed by their bodies and that simply isn’t true. Your body is truly the only guru you need and if you are willing to put faith in the process and practice listening to your body, each and every day, you can trust your body again.
4. You must learn to accept yourself and the emotional eating. It means you are a survivor. You use food when you don’t know what else to do and it says a lot about you that you wanted so deeply to protect yourself. But here is the thing, you have the ability to not only survive, you have the power to thrive. This always, always starts with love.
5. You must learn new ways of taking care of yourself. This means putting YOU at the top of your list. It means learning to build boundaries. It means making your self-care your number one priority.
6. And finally, and this one is the one that is the missing piece for so many women, you have to learn how to suck at it. You have to learn how to “fall off the wagon”. You have to learn how to “get off track”. You have to learn how to catch yourself sooner. Overcoming emotional eating is a process. It doesn’t happen overnight and the path isn’t always clear cut.

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