8. Emotional Eating (Interview from Dr. Tamara Beckford's podcast UR Caring Docs)

07/10/2021 23 min
8. Emotional Eating (Interview from Dr. Tamara Beckford's podcast UR Caring Docs)

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Episode Synopsis


On this episode of the High on Life podcast, I’m sharing an interview that I did on the UR Caring Docs podcast with Dr. Tamara Beckford.
In this episode, we cover:

Most people know what healthy eating is – so why is it so hard to implement?
We need to go to the root issues of why we don’t follow through
Diets don’t work – instead they lead to learned helplessness
When you “fall off the wagon”, you need to train yourself to search for the wins
Emotional eating has little to do with the actual food. As long as we keep focusing on the food, we’ll miss the actual issues at hand
Emotional eating is a buffering strategy
We need to train our brains not to need to escape unpleasant emotions and learn to feel
Noticing and naming emotions