Emotional Eating: A chat through managing stress and guilt during the festive season

Do you feel out of control with food around the festive season? Let's chat through managing this - and the stress & guilt - at this time of year! In this episode we are talking all things emotional eating. What is emotional eating? It does have different definitions and there's definitely a time at which this can escalate from normalcy to disordered eating. Emotional eating is simply put, where we find comfort in food. Which is normal. When we eat and enjoy a food there's a food memory and experience associated with that.  So how do we manage emotional eating in periods where this turns to our crux or coping mechanism. Well settle down and listen to this ep with a cuppa and we'll explore together. If you have resonated with any of these questions or topics brought up in today's Q&A and you would like to work with one of our dietitians, please feel free to reach out to us on our Instagram @compeat_nutrition or our website compeatnutrition.com!