Emotional Eating Unwrapped24 Okt 2024

The Hidden Triggers: How People Pleasing and Perfectionism Fuel Emotional Eating

In this episode, Alana dives deep into two significant triggers that often lead people to emotional eating: people pleasing and perfectionism. Alana shares her own journey, revealing how these habits are intricately connected to our relationship with food. By dissecting the characteristics of people pleasing and perfectionism, she explains how they contribute to emotional eating patterns and neglect of self-care. Alana guides you on how to shift away from these detrimental behaviors and move towards self-awareness, balance, and a more empowered way of living. Join Alana as she offers actionable steps to break free from these cycles and fosters a healthier, more compassionate relationship with food and yourself.

Leave us a voice message for our next Q&A episode!

Curious to learn more about working directly with Alana so that you can reconnect with your hunger and fullness cues, learn to eat whatever you want without rules, regulate your emotions and naturally lose weight so you can live with freedom and joy? Click here for details about the new Coaching and Accountability Mentorship Experience with Alana and try it out for $33 for 30 days ( no strings attached).

And for a limited time, get the Sober Eating Method Playbook for $17 (Value: $997). The step-by-step blueprint to rewire your patterns with food, so you can eat whatever you want, without rules. Click here to get the playbook

Explore more from Be Well by AK

Be sure to follow Alana on Instagram at @bewellbyak.

Takeaways

Food can become a reward for neglecting self-care.
Perfectionism leads to unrealistic standards and self-judgment.
Shifting to 'good enough' thinking can be transformative.
Food should be seen as a neutral vehicle for nourishment.
You are enough just as you are, without perfection.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Emotional Eating and Healing

02:54 Understanding People Pleasing and Perfectionism

15:20 Breaking Free from Perfectionism and People Pleasing

24:56 Embracing Self-Awareness and Neutrality in Food Choices

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(152)

Why You Feel Full but Never Satisfied (And Keep Eating)

You eat dinner. You're full, actually full. And twenty minutes later you're back in the kitchen with the fridge open, not even hungry, just looking for something. You've done it. Alana has too. In thi...

20 Aug 19min

Why Do I Feel Like I Have No Control Over Food at Parties?

In this episode, Alana sits down with Evan Cudworth, who calls himself the world's first party coach, for an unscripted conversation about parties, food, alcohol, and what it actually takes to enjoy y...

13 Aug 42min

Why Food Noise Comes Back When Nothing Is Wrong

In this episode, Alana talks about something she keeps hearing from the women she works with, and it doesn’t match the story any of us were told about food noise. The message usually sounds the same: ...

6 Aug 24min

If You Can't Keep Certain Foods in the House, Watch This

In this episode, Alana unpacks a part of emotional overeating that rarely gets talked about: the aftermath. For so many women, the hardest part of eating isn't the craving, the urgency, or the moment ...

30 Jul 23min

3 Ways You’re Still Negotiating With Food Without Realizing It

In this episode, Alana breaks down what it really means to negotiate with food, the back-and-forth in your head before you eat, where one part of you builds the case for the food and another builds th...

23 Jul 29min

How I Finally Enjoyed Eating Everything in Italy (And What It Took to Get There)

In this episode, Alana shares a personal story that answers one of the most common questions she gets from women in the Sober Eating community, "Can I ever actually enjoy food again?" She takes you th...

16 Jul 27min

4 Ways Even ‘Healthy’ Diets Can Disconnect You From Your Body

In this episode, Alana unpacks four ways even “healthy” diets can disconnect you from your body. She talks about how food rules, clean eating, wellness protocols, and constant planning can start to cr...

9 Jul 22min

Is Intuitive Eating Just Permission to Overeat?

In this episode, Alana unpacks what intuitive eating actually is, why it works for some women, and why it can completely backfire for others when the deeper foundation is not there yet. She explores h...

2 Jul 18min