Heart Led Wellness3 Sep 2024

75: Fight or flight eating: How your sympathetic nervous system impacts your relationship with food

Your relationship with food is a window into your nervous system health. One of my all time favorite things to talk about is the connection between your nervous system and food. When you grow your nervous system capacity, your relationship with food will effortlessly shift back to how you were designed to be around food (eating should feel as easy as breathing). Today I am specifically talking about one branch of your nervous system: the sympathetic activation state, aka fight or flight. I discuss how this state affects eating and the foods you are drawn to and how to support yourself if you find yourself in this state.

I discuss…

A refresher on Polyvagal Theory
How the 3 states of the nervous system feel in your body
How your relationship with food is a reflection of your nervous system
Food behaviors that could indicate your nervous system needs some love
A deep dive into sympathetic activation
How eating feels in sympathetic activation
What foods are we drawn to and why when we are in fight or flight
How nervous system dysregulation and stress affect your hunger and fullness
How to take care of your nervous system to prevent sympathetic activation eating
What to do in the moment when you’re stress eating

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Music created and produced by Cam Roberts

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