Understanding Emotional Eating
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About this Event
Emotional eating is about eating for reasons other than physical hunger, and many people say they're 'comfort eaters'. In this talk I cover some of the key aspects of emotional eating, how to recognise it and what to do about it. To set up and maintain healthy, balanced eating habits, it’s really important to address emotional eating.
The talk will provide useful information for anyone who feels they are an emotional eater, finds that emotional eating gets in the way of their attempts to eat healthily, lose weight or maintain their weight long-term.
The talk includes:-
~ Common causes and triggers of emotional eating and compulsive overeating
~ How childhood might positively or negatively impact a person’s relationship with food
~ How eating can be influenced by how we deal with feelings
~ The role of unmet needs in emotional eating
~ The role personality can play in emotional eating
~ The links between self-concept, lifestyle management and eating habits.
The aim of the talk is to help individuals identify which particular factors might be driving their own emotional eating, and give them some tools to become more in charge of food.
Includes detailed handout.