Session 3 – Emotional Eating
In this session, Lucy will talk about Emotional Eating. Emotional hunger can be so powerful, that it’s easily mistaken for physical hunger. However, there are clues you can look for to help you tell physical and emotional hunger apart.
Before you start the next session, take some time to review the goal you set for yourself at the end of the previous session.
- Did you achieve the goal you set? If no, why could this be?
- Was the goal specific and achievable or do you need to review and amend the goal?
- If you did achieve it, well done! You might want to think about making the goal more challenging if you found it too easy.
You will continue to complete this goal over the coming weeks, as well as creating a new goal each week!
Watch the video about Emotional Eating
Emotional Eating slides
You can check out and/or download the session slides here.
Further to the session on Emotional Eating, please find a selection of links to support some of the different topics we discussed:
- Feelings Wheel for when you need to pinpoint what you’re feeling: Feelings Wheel
- How the Way App Help with Food Journaling (eatmyway.com)
Meditation for when Emotional Hunger/Binge Urges strike: 5-Minute Guided Meditation For Dealing With Binge Urges – YouTube
There are several services to reach out to if you need further support with binge eating:
- Eating Recovery service – Suffolk Mind
- Nexus – Telephone Support – Beat (beateatingdisorders.org.uk)
- Find a meeting – Overeaters Anonymous (oa.org)
- Liberate – Freedom From Obsessive Eating (phcuk.org)
- For those of you under 25, you can also check out Kooth for free mental health support and tools, which include emotional eating: Kooth
- Intuitive Eating: 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating – Intuitive Eating
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