Spring Break #5 - Emotional Eating

04/28/23 • 4 min

This week’s spring break focus is Emotional Eating. And we’re exploring all things emotional eating.

Now emotional eating isn’t bad. It’s very normal. It’s okay to get pleasure and comfort and other positive emotion from the food that we eat. We shouldn’t deny ourselves that pleasure if we’re happy with our weight and physically and emotionally healthy. But if our emotional eating is out of balance, if it’s contributing to us being unhappy with our weight and unhealthy, then we’re going to want to do understand why we’re emotional eating and find new ways of helping ourselves to feel better without turning to food.

To find out more about emotional eating and how it shows up for you, check out these three podcast episodes.

#7 Eating your feelings Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

What feelings are and where they come from (by the way everyone needs to know this)
How emotional eating shows up in your life – so you can decide what parts of your emotional eating aren’t serving you
How you personally are using food to avoid your feelings and emotions

#40 Proactive Emotional Health This is a must-listen episode for everyone – no matter your weight or relationship with food. Discover:

How to increase awareness of your emotions
The skill of feeling, allowing, and processing emotional discomfort
How your thinking creates your emotions not the circumstances in your lives
The benefit of leaning into emotional discomfort
How to create emotions you want on purpose

#58 Comfort Eating Listen to this episode if you want to:

Discover your desire for comfort
Increase your awareness of when you eat for comfort
Know when and what you DO want to eat for comfort
Know when and what you DON’T want to eat for comfort
Find ways to comfort, and self soothe yourself without turning to food
Plan for those days when you don’t feel great

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

You will get weekly emails about the podcast and other weight loss wisdom, and you’ll get a copy of Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

And if you want to know more about Emotional Eating and would like personal help and support to apply what you learn here on the podcast, come join us in the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where we have classes and coaching and an amazing community to help you develop the skills to give you the weight loss results you want.

Find out more and enrol at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

And that’s it. Don’t forget to get on the email list!

Next week I’ll share the episodes to help you ditch.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

After overcoming decades of struggling with her own weight and losing 6 stone Clair used her experience and coaching qualifications to create her two programmes; ‘Lose Weight. Live Life’ for her private clients and her ‘My One Life Academy’ membership program.

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

This week’s spring break focus is Emotional Eating. And we’re exploring all things emotional eating.

To find out more about emotional eating and how it shows up for you, check out these three podcast episodes.

#7 Eating your feelings Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

What feelings are and where they come from (by the way everyone needs to know this)
How emotional eating shows up in your life – so you can decide what parts of your emotional eating aren’t serving you
How you personally are using food to avoid your feelings and emotions

#40 Proactive Emotional Health This is a must-listen episode for everyone – no matter your weight or relationship with food. Discover:

How to increase awareness of your emotions
The skill of feeling, allowing, and processing emotional discomfort
How your thinking creates your emotions not the circumstances in your lives
The benefit of leaning into emotional discomfort
How to create emotions you want on purpose

#58 Comfort Eating Listen to this episode if you want to:

Discover your desire for comfort
Increase your awareness of when you eat for comfort
Know when and what you DO want to eat for comfort
Know when and what you DON’T want to eat for comfort
Find ways to comfort, and self soothe yourself without turning to food
Plan for those days when you don’t feel great

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

You will get weekly emails about the podcast and other weight loss wisdom, and you’ll get a copy of Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

Find out more and enrol at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

And that’s it. Don’t forget to get on the email list!

Next week I’ll share the episodes to help you ditch.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

Previous Episode

Spring Break #4 - Hunger and Stopping at Enough

As you may know we’re taking a spring break here on the podcast which means right now is a great time for you to be getting to work applying the tips and strategies you’ve been learning from listening to the more than 100 podcast episodes available.

This week’s spring break focus is Hunger and it’s all about understanding the different types of hunger that you experience. In the LWLL Academy we explore the differences between physical hunger, emotional hunger, habitual hunger and hormone imbalanced hunger. And we help you apply what you learn so that you can reduce your hormone imbalanced hunger, nourish your physical hunger, put your habitual hunger to a stop and learn different strategies for helping you with your emotional hunger.

To be introduced to some of these topics from the LWLL podcast series check out these episodes:

#13 Making it easier to lose weight

Listen to this episode if:

You’re often hungry just a couple of hours after you ate a decent meal
If you ever wondered why you’re hungry when your body has plenty of ‘stored fat’ available to be used as energy
You eat a diet high in added sugar and other refined carbohydrates and you’re finding it difficult to lose weight

#37 Different types of eating

Listen to this episode to:

Discover when and why you’re emotionally eating
Learn about the different types of emotional eating behaviour
Start to understand your own emotional eating patterns

#62 Sugar Awareness

Listen to this episode if you’re curious about:

The impact of sugar on your body
How your brain responds to sugar
How sugar impacts your emotional wellbeing
The steps you can take to reduce the number of foods containing added sugar and refined carbohydrates in your diet

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

Not only will you get these weekly emails, but you’ll get a copy of the free guide Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

And of course, if you want to know more about Hunger and Your Eating Behaviours, and if you would like personal help and support to apply what you learn, please join us in the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where we have classes and coaching and worksheets and an amazing community to help you develop the skills that will give you the weight loss results you want.

Find out more and enrol at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

And that’s it. Don’t forget to get on the email list!

And next week I’ll share the episodes to listen to if you’re curious about digging deeper into ‘Emotional Eating’.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links:

Next Episode

Spring Break #6 - Failing Your Way to Weight Loss Success

Hi everyone and welcome to our last Spring Break podcast focus. From next week we will be bringing you an array of new podcast episodes featuring original content and special guest interviews. Look out for upcoming interviews about ‘How to Feel Better’ with Ruth Kudzi and ‘Understanding Binge Eating’ with Jane Pilger.

So, for our last Spring Break focus I want to focus on the reasons why you want your weight loss journey to be a series of mini failures. Failing your way to weight loss success is the only way for you to learn the tools and strategies that will uniquely help you lose and then manage your weight for life. The alternative is trying to stick to a diet, and we all know that doesn’t help you figure out how you want to eat for your best life.

So, to find out more about failing your way to success and what you want that to look like for you, check out these three podcast episodes.

#11 Creating momentum with ending overeating

Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

The importance of knowing your 'Why'
How to become your own expert
How to demonstrate emotional adulthood in weight loss
How to embrace what's difficult

#26 - When you can’t get ‘back on track’

Listen to this episode to discover:

Why you think about your eating and weight loss as being either ‘on’ or ‘off’ track
Why you feel out of control of your ability to stay ‘on’ or ‘get back on’ track
The problem with on/off track thinking
How you can move forward and not stay stuck

#72 - Overeating Opportunities

Listen to this episode if you want to:

NOT use your overeating against yourself
Make sense of your overeating
Learn from your overeating to help yourself move forward with your weight loss
Not let your primal brain using overeating opportunities as a reason to overeat

And if you’re not on the Lose Weight. Live Life. email list, sign up now by going to www.thebestyou.coach/resources

You will get weekly emails about the podcast and other weight loss wisdom, and you’ll get a copy of Six Strategies for Overcoming Overeating too.

And if you want to know more about Failing your way to weight loss success and would like personal help and support to apply what you learn here on the podcast, come join us in the Lose Weight. Live Life. Academy where we have classes and coaching and an amazing community to help you develop the skills to give you the weight loss results you want.

Find out more and join the wait list at: www.thebestyou.coach/enrol.

About Clair:

CLAIR MACKENZIE IS A LIFE & WEIGHT COACH WHO HELPS FEMALE PROFESSIONALS AND ENTREPRENEURS LOSE WEIGHT BY TRANSFORMING THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD AND THEMSELVES FOR LIFE.

Clair’s uses an array of coaching tools and techniques to help women, who are done with dieting, take control of their eating whilst increasing their self-belief and self-worth.

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping someone overcome their detrimental relationship with food so that they can thrive in optimal physical and mental wellbeing.”

Before following her passion to help women lose weight and transform their lives, Clair worked for a global blue-chip organisation in various marketing and consulting roles.

Clair has been featured on the BBC, interviewed for various podcasts, and loves speaking about how she helps women at events.

Clair lives in rural Warwickshire with her husband, teenage children and their two dogs.

Clair's Links: