The Juicy Woman

Emotional Eating Spurred by feelings of Deprivation

Comfort eating is triggered by feeling deprived.

My husband, Angel just walked into my office with a ‘daddy sandwich’ on a plate. He paused to give me a kiss and to offer me a bite of his sandwich before he headed into his office to start the day.

A Daddy sandwich is the term that my kids and I created that describes a sandwich that Angel made. Here at home we loooovvvvve Daddy Sandwiches.

It’s really just a nice regular old sandwich made with real bread, different combinations of cold cuts like ham, turkey, cheese, sometimes salami all spread with mayonnaise.

As a former dieter perpetually watching my weight, my idea of a sandwich was a couple of thin, tasteless lite-as air slices of bread that reminded me of chewing on a pillow. Between the wispy bits of bread, there was a slice or two of the lowest fat meat, cheese or meat substitute that I could find. I’d also add tomatoes and lettuce which inevitably would soak right through the lite bread of my sandwiches making a soggy mess of my meal.

To my way of thinking, I would never have spent calories or points on a real honest to goodness sandwich. It was just too big a calorie expenditure for me. The kinds of sandwiches that I was raised on by my Nana would easily have exceeded at least a half day’s food quota on any diet.

Binging: A Sure Sign Indicating That Your Boundaries Are Being Crossed

Emotional eating is stress eating. If you’re a woman who is overweight and struggling with overeating, food obsession, cravings, and hating your body, then there’s a good chance that you have binged in response to stress and overwhelm. We get bombarded by life when we give in to the disease to please.

As a woman who has struggled with secret eating and binging for a large part of my life, I’ve learned to recognize that my desire to overeat often arises from my need to be a people pleaser.

As a professional coach and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programmng, I’ve learned that what you say doesn’t matter to me, what really matters is what I tell myself. If I believe that you are more important than me or that my feelings are not valid and in order for me to be at peace, I have to please you, then I will let you walk all over me. I used to do that all the time.

Several years ago I was a Girl Scout Leader for a troop of Brownies. I was the new leader in the group and as a result I was very eager to please and wanted everyone to like me and be my friend. Each month all the leaders were gathered together to discuss news and events. In a meeting during the holidays, my

Picture Me Okay: EFT Made Easy

How many times have you wanted to do EFT to avert a craving or overcome a random kinda cruddy feeling and you just didn’t want to go through the trouble of thinking of what you wanted to say? In our busy lives, we gals can get easily overwhelmed with all the daily to dos that we have to handle. Boy, does that create a pile of stress that if left unhandled will push you to run screaming for comfort back into the arms of food.

Let me show you an easy way to do EFT without all the hassle. I call this easy as pie process “Picture Me Okay.” Here's why:

Scientific research in the field of Dyslexia shows that our brains store images or pictures in a different section of the brain separate from the place where language is interpreted.