Cheap, delicious food is everywhere! We can't avoid food, so we have to learn to manage it. When it comes to improving eating habits or losing weight, using self-discipline and willpower to stick to an eating plan or certain food rules just isn’t enough. Even if you think you have good willpower and self-discipline, you probably know deep-down that a fundamental change in mindset is required.
This webinar is designed to help you feel more confident and hopeful about navigating today's challenging 'obesogenic' food environment. And if you're an emotional eater struggling with binge eating or mindless grazing, this webinar will give you some tools to start tackling it, and help you to stop turning to food as a coping mechanism.
Food and eating can symbolise different things to different people. For example, eating can be a way to relax or have a break; it can have a calming, distracting or numbing effect when things feel difficult or overwhelming, it can be a way to reward oneself, let go or decompress, a way to put things off (procrastinate), and it can even be a means of rebelling or ‘rule breaking’. Food might be used as a way to try and self-soothe or even self-punish. This webinar is for anyone who:-
~ Wants to stop swinging between bingeing and restricting ('good' and 'bad' eating) and develop a more balanced approach to food by tackling all-or-nothing thinking and behaviours
~ Might enjoy eating healthy meals but can’t control excessive grazing or snacking
~ Has had enough of dieting but still wants to lose weight
~ Feels lost in terms of how to approach healthy, balanced eating and/ or weight loss
~ Self-sabotages when attempting to eat healthily or follow a diet plan
~ Would describe themselves as a mindless eater
~ Would describe themselves as an emotional eater and wants to stop using food as a coping mechanism
~ Wants to develop more flexible, realistic and sustainable eating habits and tackle 'food guilt'.
By gaining some in-depth knowledge about the psychology of eating and how it relates to themselves, individuals can identify their own particular eating triggers that might be making them feel out of control of food, and create some strategies to help them manage the food environment and specific eating scenarios they're faced with more confidently.
Eating habits, body image, self-worth, lifestyle, personality, mental health and past experiences are just some of the topics that are explored, as it's important to consider the 'whole picture' when it comes to understanding a person's relationship with food and eating behaviour.
The webinar content includes some real-life case studies and is packed full of information, tips and advice including:-
~ How to eat more mindfully through simple mindful eating practises and strategies, to help you feel more confident and hopeful about navigating today's challenging 'obesogenic' food environment
~ How to adopt a more flexible mindset when it comes to food and tackle unhelpful all-or-nothing thinking that can lead to all-or-nothing eating behaviours
~ How to notice when your 'diet head' is talking, how it can hinder, not help, and strategies to develop more helpful thought processes in relation to food choices, eating and weight loss
~ Key factors involved in emotional eating (or 'comfort eating')- looking in depth at the key causes, and strategies to tackle it
~ How childhood can positively or negatively influence a person's relationship with food and eating behaviour well into adulthood
~ Foods that keep us feeling fuller for longer to help manage appetite and food cravings, and advice to clear up any confusion you might have from all the mixed messages about food, nutrition and weight loss
~ How our relationship with ourselves can impact our relationship with food.
Benefits Of Attending This Webinar:-
~ Provides you with valuable tips and skills to set up new, long-lasting habits to help you improve your eating mindset and address overeating
~ Gain insightful knowledge not just about the psychology of eating but about yourself too, to help you develop a better relationship with food, escape the yo-yo dieting trap and learn valuable skills to eat in a more balanced way to help you with your long-term health and weight management goals
~ Includes a detailed handout (Powerpoint slides) and a comprehensive questions and exercises handout emailed to you after the webinar, enabling you to go back through the material and try out exercises in your own time
~ Opportunity to ask questions and to hear about other people's experiences
~ Small groups: up to 8 people per course ensures quality discussion and effective, interactive learning and support; meet other people with similar issues
~ Create a 'tool box' for life: a personalised strategy to start implementing positive change.
Session duration: 9.30am-midday. There will be one short break during the 2.5 hour session, with the first part comprising presentation of the key topics, and the second part discussion and any questions.
Reviews:-
“Thank you so much for such a fab webinar. I have learnt so much about myself as well as my eating habits and triggers. I found the session so beneficial, as well as learning that you are not the only one, and would recommend to anyone who is struggling with their relationship with food”.
“Thank you Emma for such a fantastic webinar. You were so generous with the huge amount of information that you shared, and the genuine interest you had in each of us. I learned so much from this course- I feel like I’m no longer in a battle with food, but rather, food and I are on the same side. I absolutely loved your kind, compassionate approach. The session chipped away at long held guilt and blame towards myself for not always making good food choices. I’ve come to understand there are so many factors at play- it’s not just about food, or exercise, or self-care, or having my needs met etc, but they’re all completely interlinked. I feel I’ve got more understanding of myself, and why I’ve put on weight in the past and made bad choices. Thanks again! I’m so pleased Google led me to you!”
“Emma’s webinar was an excellent introduction to the emotional and practical aspects of eating, and has made me think about my relationship with food in a whole different way. Emma brought a huge wealth of knowledge to the course and made a real effort to understand my own food issues. She gave practical and manageable suggestions for how to make improvements, as well as providing incredibly detailed and informative course documentation to complement this. The session provided a safe space to share stories with other group members, and learn from each other’s experiences. It was a very valuable course and has started me off on what I hope will be a very different relationship with food. Recommended!”
“I found Emma’s webinar very thought-provoking, interesting and comprehensive. It was good to explore and question the reasons behind my relationship with food and to also meet others with similar issues. Having yo-yo dieted for most of my life, I am now putting into practice the things I have learnt and would highly recommend the course to others. It’s made a big difference to me, and so far so good!”.
“I found this course really good at focusing my mind on what I’m eating. I particularly found the exercise looking at my childhood helpful, and how that has affected my adult eating habits. The information on the handouts and the exercises were really useful, as well as talking to other people and hearing their experiences”.
