Why Stress Makes Us Starve or Stuff

In this episode Kyla explores how anxiety and overthinking commonly affect our eating—either shutting down appetite or triggering comfort-eating—and why these responses are not a moral failing but a nervous system reaction. She shares practical steps: notice and track your patterns and triggers, calm your body before eating (breathing, a warm drink, a walk), and create space between feeling and reacting. Kyla teaches a simple, but powerful thought-distancing exercise—turn “I’m anxious” into “I’m having the thought that I’m anxious”—to reduce reactivity and build curiosity. Kyla Holley Director of the Australian Centre for Eating Behaviour To book a Discovery Session www.acfeb.com Join our comprehensive 6 week Change your Relationship with Food online course Join me here Need the Change your Relationship with Food Journal and Workbook by Kyla Holley? Then click here Buy from Amazon Practice these techniques to shift emotional eating from your only coping skill to one of many, and to start transforming your relationship with food.