Hello Brooke!
I love your program and have felt fantastic on it: emotionally fantastic and I’ve had some amazing weight loss.
I did really well for about three months and about a month ago I choose to allow sugar and snacking back into my diet and it awakened the sugar-addict again. Help! I’ve been yo-yo-Ing ever since to get back to the 16-hour fasting window, no sugar, no flour, no snacking protocol that I had established and that I felt great on. I knew that I initially was making faster physical progress than emotional progress so I’m trying to learn more about me while finding my way back to (and beyond!) where I had come to when I choose to go back to emotional eating. I consider it a success that I am learning to be kind to me despite not having done it ‘perfectly’, despite gaining some weight back.

I’ve listened to the stop-overeating workshop again and personally, healthy overeating is also an issue for me. I could over-desire chicken breast, as much as chocolate, and nuts….. How do nuts effect dopamine and insulin? I have allowed one serving of them in my protocol but this last month, if I have one serving, I want the whole bag of whatever kind of nut it is. It isn’t a salt-craving because I choose raw, unsalted nuts. I recognize that I have to eliminate the moderation chatter and simply cut out these trigger foods but I’m curious to know if there is a physical reason for my nut addiction or if it is just part of my personal emotional eating?

Have you ever made a podcast on emotional overeating heathy food? The thought is included in many of your podcasts but I thought I’d ask.

And a special thank you for Lauren’s coaching, telling me that we don’t fall off the wagon, that this isn’t failure, but part of the process.

I’m still going to get this!
Trish