33. Stop Emotional Eating NOW - Secrets to Never Having to Diet Again with Tricia Nelson

03:07 Tricia grew up an emotional eater: ‘We were all in pain and we anesthetized our pain with certain addictions. No constructive tools to deal with pain. There were a lot of unaddressed feelings and I buried them with food.

07:37 Stress at a young age: As a kid, you need to have a lot of appropriate coping tools to deal with the stress. We did what we could. Food is a really useful and accessible way of stuffing your feelings. It's handy and it works.

10:24 Diet will not work because it just focuses on the symptom. Being overweight is a symptom of overeating. And overeating is a symptom of what's eating me.

12:39 Emotional eating defined: Emotional hunger can very closely mimic physical hunger; it is needing food for reasons beyond nutritional needs. It's eating to cover up emotions.

17:41 Nutrition vs Emotion: Three Meal Magic. A lot of our eating is just boredom, unconscious eating. A great place to start is realizing that. Stop snacking and by that, you also cut out the unhealthy food that you would normally snack on.

19:43 Is craving a signal of emotional or physical hunger? Emotional eaters tend to hack the system - skip a meal but then make up for it later and overeat instead. Eating to feel good in the moment vs Eating to feel good in the long term.

24:57 Emotional eater vs Food addict: As humans, we have a wiring for emotional eating. Emotional connection with food is not at all bad, but it's a matter of how far you'll take it and how much food serves emotional needs beyond physical needs. Low-end means high control and little consequences; you can course-correct easily. High-end means little control and a lot of consequences.