1. You Believe Eating Is Always Synonymous With Weight Loss

The instinctual response to fixing harmful eating habits is to start a new ‘diet’, with the intention of losing weight or changing body composition.

When weight or fat loss becomes the primary goal – with ‘emotional’ or ‘mindful’ eating masquerading as a pivotal reason for change – people actually end up in a worse position, often exacerbating the very same issues they attempted to solve in the first place.

Unsustainable and unhealthy dieting tactics fuel feelings of deprivation, an unhealthy preoccupation with food, a negligence to the pertinent emotions at play, and, ultimately, failure.

The aim is to work on the relevant mechanisms and tactics to accept and manage your emotions without letting weight loss drive your motivations or decision-making. 

Do you still feel the need to diet to fix your emotional eating issues?

2. You Only Attempt Surface Level Solutions

Identifying triggers, changing an environment, or reducing stress works, up to a certain point.

Beyond that, people are left to their own devices.

And, often, they’re not armed with the requisite methods to display emotional tolerance when they’re enraged, or deal with certain urges and cravings in an evening, or address their deep-rooted triggers.

Conquering ‘normal eating’ takes time and patience to practice confronting emotionally charged situations, not just putting a plaster over a broken leg.

And without the right underlying mechanisms to hand, people are left wondering why they keep returning to the fridge at certain points throughout their week.

Do you wonder why you never actually make any breakthroughs with your eating?

3. You Only Focus On What You Can and Can’t Eat

The quality of food you consume matters, of course. 

However, fixating on whether you’re allowed ice cream or why you should be swapping your pasta for cauliflower rice or how many grams of sweet potato you should be having is undeniably a huge waste of your time.

When you ignore the reasons behind why you want to eat, you miss out on a large piece of the puzzle.

When you can focus on deciphering your eating triggers, how you deal with uncomfortable emotions, what your other lifestyle habits are like, and the true reasons behind your impulses and urges, you start to eat the ice cream and snacks without worrying whether you’ve blown it. 

Do you wish you could eat something and know that it’s OK to do so?

4. You Avoid Working On Proper Eating Strategies

A shiny new diet that tells you to ‘eat this’ and only ‘eat at that time’ seems exciting. 

Unfortunately, this is exactly why you’ve failed before. 

You can’t ride a bike without learning to ride a bike, nor can you gain a qualification without putting in the work to achieve the qualification. 

Similarly, you can’t improve your eating behaviours if you don’t attempt to improve your eating behaviours.

It may seem like a simple rule, but when was the last time you sat down and practiced sitting with an uncomfortable emotion, or worked through a self-compassion task, or finally understood how to validate a feeling?

Hoping to start a new diet or watch an Instagram reel without taking action will never help you make those crucial developments you desire.

Which is exactly why you need access to ALL the eating skills, activities, and exercises I provide my clients.