Emotional Eating and 'Magical Thinking' about food!
Emma Murphy MIACP
CEO Eating Freely - Trainers and Service Providers in Emotional Eating & Binge Eating Disorder I Healthcare Partners.
Today my video covers the importance of recognizing and challenging 'magical thinking' that clients can have about food and eating. There are some very common magical thoughts that clients can have, which inadvertently create food scarcity for themselves, which in turn can trigger unhelpful eating.
I am also sharing very practical strategies to help clients develop a more realistic and healthier relationship with food and themselves, including the first, often radical step of accepting that we must eat every day!
Often clients with long standing emotional or binge eating, and clients who are stuck in a cycle of yo-yo weight loss and gain do not realise the power of certain magical thoughts that they have. These magical thoughts are often drivers of unhelpful eating! By taking these thoughts out of the client's mind and into the room, we can safely dismantle them and replace them with practical actions that clients can take to better support themselves when it comes to food and eating.
Obviously a key practical part of our work with clients who struggle with long standing emotional eating or binge eating disorder is to spend time on their actual food and eating. We help clients take steps to ensure good and regular food availability, acknowledge that hunger is a significant trigger for binge eating and and help clients to let go of thoughts that restrict their own food availability.
Although I spend a lot of time saying 'it's not about food, it's about feelings', the truth is as part of resolving long standing emotional or binge eating, there is a significant element of nutritional rehabilitation that has to happen. Both our program for clients and training for professionals incorporate the correct nutritional input this particular client group needs - which is often the opposite of what is regularly advised.
I hope you enjoy this video - it's about 12 minutes long, ideal for a coffee break! You'll find the reflective questions and actions below.
Reflective Questions for clients:
?What unrealistic or 'magical thoughts' do I regularly have about food and eating?
What 'downright lies' do I regularly tell myself, which actually result in me binge eating - the opposite of what I am telling myself I will do?
Actions clients can take - for this I recommend you at least start it with them in session:
Put a regular eating plan in place, using the journalling page if it helps.
I hope you found this week's newletter video helpeful. As always I welcome your feedback!
Warmly, Emma
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5 个月To conclude clearly, good to demystify, and correspondence only serves to aid in healing ,
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5 个月Food is the metaphor fo r a malaise, malease of the mind. The furtive nature of the condition only serves to magnify the distress. The open, expressive mode of communication ie the web
Health Coaching Practitioner | Empowering driven executives to optimize their daily habits and reclaim their energy levels for peak performance | Supporting organisations through workplace wellness initiatives
7 个月Thanks for this short presentation Emma - I see some common practical approaches - as a health coach I spend alot of time in the space of planning ahead with my one to one clients seeking healthier habits, its one of the key foundations of a significant shift to feeling better. They tell me how they start to make much better food choices.
Nutrition & Wellness Coach at Into Nutrition / Licensed and certified Eating Freely Practitioner
7 个月I so agree on the importance of regular eating and not punishing our bodies. A healthy relationship with food plays a big role