How do you address the issue of emotional eating with your clients and can you give an example of a strategy used?

Emotional eating is a concern that affects most of us, at one point or another in our lifetime. Strategies to address emotional eating are personalized and interactive. Using the results of my mindful eating questionnaire and active listening as a healthcare practitioner allows me to provide customized recommendations and monitoring techniques to each client. Examples include: - journaling triggers that cause a negative internal response - identifying non-food rewards that can be used to help navigate emotional eating Each client is unique in their emotional response to eating, whether the emotions are stress, sadness, boredom, reward or anxiety, different strategies are identified in response to the different triggers and emotional responses. For more, connect with me at LiveandLoveNutrition.com/book-now or @liveandlovenutrition.fertility

Emotional eating comes form somewhere, and the food is a coping mechanism for emotions related to something else. The only way to combat it is to understand the underlying behavior chain and then develop healthy coping skill(s) other than using food. Teaching about hunger and fullness, and getting more intuitive with bodily signals helps create a stopgate to eating for non-physiological reasons. Food journaling can be another way to identify patterns and possible triggers. A great therapist can be an incredible addition to the nutrition-treatment being done by the dietitian.

I worked at Amazon for four years as a software engineer on the Amazon Fulfillment Technology team. To address emotional eating with clients, I recommend identifying triggers and replacing eating with alternative activities. For example, if stress is a trigger, practice deep breathing exercises or take a brisk walk to manage emotions effectively.