Why Dieting is NOT the Answer to Emotional Eating

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You notice yourself turning to food when you’re stressed, sad, angry, lonely. You comfort yourself with food after you’ve had a bad day. Food feels like your best friend. And your mortal enemy. And you’re tired of this. So what do you do?

You diet. You try to control food. You cut back on portions, throw away all of the snack foods in your house, and stop eating entire food groups. Because that’s the solution, right? It’s all about control. Be militant about everything you put in your mouth.

Except what happens?

After a day, a week, a month, you run back to food. Something happens and you’re back at the fridge or the vending machine or your favorite drive through.

And you feel really out of control with food again. So what do you do?

You tell yourself that you have to be more strict. You have to diet harder. So this time, you make your portions even smaller. You throw out the snack foods and the bread. You stop eating yet another food group.

And after a day, a week, a month, you turn to food again.

It's such a vicious cycle.

I have no idea why, but it seems like dieting is the only advice ever given to emotional eaters. And it just...doesn't....work. 

In fact, 95-98% of diets fail.  And on this week's episode, we're talking about why that is.  Spoiler alert:  it's NOTHING that you've done wrong. Join me to take that first step away from dieting!

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