Emotional Nutrition

What is it?

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Emotional eating is the tendency to eat in response to an emotion (anxiety, sadness, depression, etc.) or a feeling (e.g. fatigue, stress). Indeed, we do not always eat to satisfy hunger. Eating may be a kind of refuge to soothe negative emotions or sensations.

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The weight of comfort foods

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Faced with emotions that are difficult to manage, we tend to compensate with food. Either by eating to fill ourselves up and stop thinking or by using a comfort food, linked to our childhood or to positive emotions or happy memories. Eating a food that we particularly like allows us to temporarily compensate for negative emotions and to produce a feeling of well-being, particularly through a rise in serotonin in the brain, under the influence of sweetness.

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The key is to reconnect with oneself to listen to feelings of hunger and satiety and then to welcome one's emotions.

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A personal change "an authentic transformation"

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Let it be clear that authentic change or transformation does not depend on a simple decision, an explosion of good intentions, or liters of "medicine" that you could take in one ceremony.

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It is in fact a daily and constant work, a permanent reiteration of the need to abandon old ways of thinking until the material part of these neural networks disintegrates and disappears because they are no longer used.

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The only way to make mental patterns disappear is to stop using them.

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Every time we are faced with a common situation, where we already know everything that will happen (what we will say, what we will be told and how it will end), we have the opportunity to make a change. But we need speed and a lot of energy to counter the inertia created by decades of repetition of the same pattern.