Stress & Emotional Eating

Emotional and stress eating is something I had struggled with for YEARS on end! I have many stories of consuming entire pans of pumpkin bars without thinking, to finding myself mowing down candy uncontrollably to sneaking in our basement after my family went to bed to 'enjoy' just a few more treats. It was a long, hard and dark ugly time in my past that took a lot to grow from and heal from. What I can tell you, is our emotional triggers to eat from stress/upset/ etc, are learned habits that were set in play with neurological pathways in our brains. Our brains learned when something hurt, if we ate "insert food of choice here" we'd get a boost of dopamine (happy hormone) and we'd temporarily feel better. That's why many of us will still gravitate towards those foods during rough times.

Others find themselves with feelings of nostalgia for certain foods because of how we felt when we had them; once again a direct correlation to our past and dopamine releases due to being happy or feeling good and that food just happened to be a part of it.

I am going to dive into some details of how these brain pathways work and how we can chance them. I hardly ever struggle with these uncontrollable cravings anymore myself and know I've rebuilt and reformatted how my brain processes information and reaction to MOST things. I'm going to tell you about how I did it so maybe it can help you as well!

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