Emotional Eating: What if Weight Loss Isn't about the Food? | Tricia Nelson | TEDxWestMonroe
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Published 2022-01-25
Conventional wisdom suggests if you eat less and exercise more, you’ll lose weight. But that’s not so easy for those that struggle with emotional eating. Tricia Nelson describes how she lost 50 pounds by getting off the diet rollercoaster ride, looking beyond the symptoms of food and weight and healing her emotional relationship with food instead. She’s spent the past several decades helping people lose weight without dieting through her process that she outlines in her book, Heal Your Hunger, 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now and her popular podcast, The Heal Your Hunger Show. Tricia Nelson lost fifty pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating and sugar addiction. Tricia has spent over thirty years researching the hidden causes of the addictive personality. Tricia is an Emotional Eating Expert, founder of HealYourHunger.com and author of the #1 bestselling book, Heal Your Hunger, 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. Tricia is the host of the popular podcast, The Heal Your Hunger Show and has been a highly regarded guest speaker on more than 100 popular podcasts. Tricia has been featured on NBC, CBS, KTLA, FOX, The List and Discovery Health. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
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"Eating was how I coped with life" this resonated with me big time.
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1.25 speed, thank me later
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It's definitely not about the food - just like any addiction isn't actually about the substance. We are all just here self medicating in hopes of feeling something, anything, that gives us a moment of joy. There's so much more to life than instant gratification. Great talk Tricia.
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So many people have unhealthy relationships with food, it's not just the ladies. Hopefully men will start having the courage to talk about it too
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Emotional eating is a form of self harm like cutting. Why isn't this in mainstream media.
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If I'm anxious I eat,nervous I eat, sad I eat, excited I eat.
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Laughed when Tricia said she hoped she'd get a disease and lose weight without dieting. I hoped to catch a tape worm that would let me eat and eat and get thinner.
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That's true. Often the over-eaters are overdoers and people pleasers. They tire themselves every time and got to release their emotions through something that they think will not bother other people, that is food. Thanks Tricia for the great talk! Will try to slow down and manage my stress level, and to learn to say no when my plate is full.
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I've been watching a bunch of these videos lately and more and more these are illustrating the links between people-pleasing, burnout, depression, addiction and low self-esteem. thanks for the great talk!
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Food can be such an easy way to comfort, especially if it's been a part of your cultural upbringing there are so many inbuilt positive responses. It's when food becomes the only thing that comforts us that it's a problem
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“Emotional eating is one of the hardest of the addictive habits to break… because we HAVE to eat!” Man, yes!!! This has so frustrated me! When I realized I was punishing myself with food, I knew I had an eating disorder and I needed to deal with the emotional issues and anger. I’m dealing with it, but I sure could use a community!!!
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i cried so hard watching this bc i related to every single word she said. hope i'll also get better.
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The timing of this video in my life is to perfect. My lack of control with emotional eating is of the rails right now. Really speaks to me. Thank you for this.
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I saw this video just after I felt horrible after bingeing , 2 days in a row, and this has really given me motivation to find my way out of this binge cycle. I hope we can all work through this together:)
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I enjoy having a squishy middle. I once read that empathetic people tend to be more heavy set, it said so that they had some extra cushioning for all the feels but I now reckon it's because they go for the instant gratification and emotional eating to take the edge off all those feels.
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So perfect for me. I'm over 100 days sober and I'm also struggling with emotional eating. So many emotions to deal with at once. Thank you 🙏
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Growing up I had grandmothers and aunts who showed their love by making my favourite foods. So the connection was made....food = love. Love = food!!
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snacking is a addiction , even it is healthy nuts in large quantities . Like this talk . One of the best.
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Can we also talk about neuro-divergent people who binge eat and love high sugar high carb foods because they're constantly looking for a dopamine hit?
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… it’s so weird that I’ve watched so many weight loss videos in my life, but that story she told and the way she talked about this was just way too similar to my own experiences. Part of me is just hoping that this will stick with me
