Our preferences, associations, emotions, beliefs and environment impact our food choices and eating behaviour. An awareness and understanding of why and how we eat or choose what we eat can help us break habits that don’t serve us and adopt healthier habits if we choose.
For many, emotional eating can feel out of control or be a concern. In the blogs below, I explore emotional eating and ways to break free of the emotional eating cycle.
A pursuit of finding the ‘right’ diet and to eat ‘healthy’ can become unhealthy if it becomes an obsession and takes the joy out of eating and life. Diets and …
How do we stop the cycle of emotional eating when it feels out of control? What is emotional eating? Emotional eating is when the primary reason for eating is mood …
Thinking the ‘diet starts tomorrow’ can lead to overeating in anticipation of future restriction, whether it’s the New Year or any Sunday when the diet starts Monday. Imagine this, it’s …
The media are warning of the risk of gaining weight during lockdown. However, concerning yourself with your weight at this time is not beneficial for your health. Allow me to …
Is it time to ditch the bathroom scales for good? Consider this. Say you’ve started a diet. You’ve been good… oh very good the past few days. All the hard work must …
I wrote this blog on how events can open up emotional wounds and lead to emotional eating when we first went into COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand in 2020. It …
When the food rules of a diet are so strict that people wonder, ‘is this food legal’, it’s too restrictive. Recently I overheard someone say, ‘I’m not sure it’s legal’, …
Are you afraid you’d ‘let yourself go’ and gain weight if you accepted your body and stopped dieting? At the beginning of each year, we’re exposed to many messages telling …
Warning: This blog intends to express how gender norms influence food choice, not to portray gender as binary. Apologies for the gender stereotyping! Although intended as a tongue-in-cheek idiom, Real …
A fear of judgement can influence our relationship with our body and food. In the book, Joyful Eating, I dedicate an entire section and self-reflection activity to judgment. This is because, …
How did I stop eating like it was the last slice of tiramisu I’d ever have, that is overeating when I allowed myself to indulge on ‘treat’ foods? In my …
Children intuitively know what and how to eat. Yet we lose the curiosity and intuition with food by adulthood due to external labels and diet rules. Children interact with the …