‼️ Therapist Explains How to Stop Stress Eating

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@harisankar2688 4 ай бұрын

This may sound strange but learning to deal with stress effectively will easily help you heal from food addiction. The paradoxical thing is that, you shouldn't be angry at yourself for not dealing with your own stress. So try not to take everything personally and be patient and forgiving towards yourself

@BreathofSpring24 4 ай бұрын

Your comment does NOT sound the least bit strange! Totally makes sense, and I am working on this myself. I wish I could magically fix the problem. 😊

@reesewitherfork6142 4 ай бұрын

Definitely doesn’t sound strange. The addiction is not the problem, it’s an attempt to address/fix the problem. What you said is very logical and insightful - address the root.

@FemEngAT 4 ай бұрын

😮 Listening to you explaining about the relief that comes after a struggle, when you finally eat the icecream, I just had a REAL LIGHTBULB MOMENT: In my case, when I finally eat the chocolate and chips (icecream), I do feel only a very short relief from the struggle stress. Quickly, the new stress sets in caused by the fact that I just ate this food, which has been connotated so badly for long years. And it is this type of stress that feeds the urge to binge even more! a) I am stressed. b) I struggle with the thought about my relief food. c) I eat a piece of it. d) Short relief. e) More stress! f) Eat more. g) Binge Event.

@workstudy8118 4 ай бұрын

My wife has breast cancer and had a disastrous first chemo two weeks ago. I needed this video. I’ve been stress eating like crazy to cope 😢

@rejoyce318 4 ай бұрын

🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

@FemEngAT 4 ай бұрын

@@workstudy8118 All the best for both of you, and a complete recovery for your dear wife 🍀💝

@elmar3650 4 ай бұрын

Sending hugs 😢💖

@paulwarner5674 4 ай бұрын

Chemo is a bitch. Never easy to watch a loved one suffer . Really feel for you .❤

@paulawhittaker3538 4 ай бұрын

I would give yourself grace/compassion. You're doing the best you can do considering the circumstances. I appreciate how hard it is to look after and watch someone you love go through cancer (treatment). Carers of loved ones can totally forget that the situation affects them too and they put their needs to one side to concentrate on their loved one, which is totally natural but we also have to look after ourselves too mentally, physically and emotionally, and not feel guilty for doing so. I truly wish you and your wife much love, light & healing xx

@Lore-M-Ipsum-yew 4 ай бұрын

Yes, yes, yes! So much good, practical wisdom here!!!! There are so many ways that food provides relief or pleasure that it's ridiculous and they STACK. There are also dynamics that go back to your earliest primal experiences with physical reality as an infant (not just what was mentioned here). To think you can fight it is not really knowing what you are up against. I was puzzled long before I started practicing mindfulness as to why I would literally have a deep sigh of relief in my body and feel like I had taken a pain reliever when I gorged certain foods. Now that I've studied it, it makes total sense and I've since started mindfully using food like I would a pain reliever (like aspirin) when I feel those absolutely crushing bouts of pressure. Doing this re-frames the eating as something positive. It stops the pain and stops the battle inside which means I don't feel the "have to" pressure in the same was as often, and it works! You need a relief from these crushing paradoxes. This then gives you the space to mindfully look at what is causing the urges, and that can lead to a drastically different life. Mindfulness is the best tool you can have. It is not the answer but it is a valuable tool to find the answer(s). Best! Lore

@ashleybecker8417 4 ай бұрын

You are so amazing on how you thoughtfully and philosophically describe this subject; all the nuances included. Thank you for your highest thinking, Sarah. ❤🎉

@lizpride9960 4 ай бұрын

As a person who is currently very stressed from juggling serious external issues which cannot be "let go" - these amazing and wonderfully articulated psychological insights are *hugely* helpful. Thank you *so much* Sarah. 🌹

@robinkat 3 ай бұрын

I've cried exercising too... its an amazing phenomenon. Especially stretching and yoga... it oddly does release things.

@bvnniiyesii 4 ай бұрын

i usually cant sit thru and watch informative videos but yours are very helpful that it makes me want to sit thru them, ty for all of these videos💝

@polyglotmona 4 ай бұрын

This is so helpful, thank you 🙏 I had totally forgotten about the parasympathetic system although I had learned it at university. The battle is real and the relief is huge... The “should” thoughts are also my problem. What you said about gratitude, acceptance and breathing is very interesting. Wow, what a video! Have a great day! I hope everything turned out fine for you and your new home 🏡

@CanCricket12345 4 ай бұрын

I’m really glad this came up on my feed today! I needed to hear this. I don’t know why I didn’t make these connections sooner. When I quit smoking many years ago, I had been adamant that smoking a cigarette relaxed me. It was only when I made the connection that the cigarette was causing my stress, through addiction, in the first place that I realized I had been thinking about it backwards. Smoking didn’t relieve my tension, it caused it! I never made the connection in the same way to my binge eating and, I guess also, my skin picking. Thank you!

@jadwigapelka2982 4 ай бұрын

Wow, that hits home so much! Thank you Sarah ❤ when I was a new mum with postpartum depression and doing what I was supposed to do, not responding to my feelings was a main motor to turn to food. I never realise that until you said it. Thank you ❤️ step by step I'm learning to be me again

@mercurious6699 4 ай бұрын

Excellent video, thank you

@robinkat 3 ай бұрын

Thank you sweet lady❤

@MaureenHagerty 4 ай бұрын

Congratulations on buying your own home!! Yeah I can only imagine the stress. Good on you for paying attention to it!!!

@densedecisions4568 4 ай бұрын

Connecting to the food experience: It can also be a more un glamorous (not to be encouraging/modeling disordered) food choices (as I did not have that mindset tonight.) I have a little tray with sweetener, and I will occasionally take out some vegetables and dip them in. I call this "powder munching," sometimes I will go really overboard, but today not so much. I put a piece of cauliflower in the oven and dipped it in erythritol, nothing special but I was thoroughly fascinated in the adventure of learning how it would cook, spraying it with water and seeing it boil off, having the meat thermometer sticking out of the oven because it is late at night and I don't want the preheat to beep. By the way, by the time I come write this from the other thing I work on, you mention getting enough sleep. What's worth saying, is I am feeling awesome about this tradeoff as I spend time putting my unresolved *ideas* to sleep! Last night I binged hard in this (physical/situational) position, but I really think that's the difference today.

@densedecisions4568 4 ай бұрын

11:34 How much am Stressing about what's outside of my soul? It's interesting I find my priorities go reverse on me in this way sometimes. I say I'm not off task, but on the old tasks.

@DemureDelight8055 4 ай бұрын

Another banger!! Journaling about this one :)

@theblacksworde 4 ай бұрын

Have been watching your videos for some time and found them very helpful but what finally got me out of my binge eating and stress eating and to lose significant weight was to start Mounjaro injections 3 weeks ago. I no longer have food cravings but the problem is what to do with my stress and anxiety now I can't manage them with food

@TheHubbaBubbaMan-je7tz 4 ай бұрын

I have a problem with comfort eating unhealthy snacks 😮 😢 but when I get the urge I tend to cope better by eating bananas 🍌 or apples 🍎 or steamed broccoli 🥦. I have learned that it comes in waves, I experienced this when I lost weight, it was interesting 🤔. When I have slept good the snacking isn't as extreme.

@ladrabudka6953 4 ай бұрын

Excellent, excellent!!!

@MaureenHagerty 4 ай бұрын

As always…great info. Cute as a button. And I love your nail polish!! And if you’re ever homeless I’d be happy to host!

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

That’s so kind! But today is moving day! 😅

@larifari9490 4 ай бұрын

Thank you from Germany....I have no one to talk about it.

@BreathofSpring24 4 ай бұрын

It can be a tool - thats the problem! How do i switch to exercise or something non-food related?

@JoyceElFer 4 ай бұрын

We have the same stress eating meal!

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

Even the cookies?! 😆

@JoyceElFer 4 ай бұрын

@TheBingeEatingTherapist Yes!!! Although sometimes I get the brookies.

@JoyceElFer 4 ай бұрын

@TheBingeEatingTherapist I loved this video. I will watch more. I have a huge issue with stress eating, and along with anxiety/depression, it has got me 40 lbs heavier. I'm working on healthier coping mechanisms.

@ajrwilde14 4 ай бұрын

If you're renting you don't need to leave if you're not ready, even if you've given notice to the landlord you can retract it at anytime, only a court can end a tenancy if the tenant doesn't leave.

@heatherrobinson7026 4 ай бұрын

Is this comment on the right article?

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

That's true. I would be reluctant to do that as I wouldn't want to screw over the next tenant. Doesn't feel like good karma ❤️

@starbright1256 4 ай бұрын

I'm weak to chips. Then feel guilty.

@taicraven5833 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Sarah, for giving at a time of such stress for you

@berritandersen288 4 ай бұрын

🙏

@donovangray4246 4 ай бұрын

I wonder why I struggle around eating sugary foods as a coping mechanism whenever I am dealing with my recovery from sexual abuse. I started eating excessively to suppress sexual desire in my younger years and it's still a problem.

@FemEngAT 4 ай бұрын

I can so relate about eating to suppress my sexual desire, but not because of sexual abuse, but because of a frustrating marriage to a wonderful man that had become nearly sexless after some years. My desire was at maximum intensity, and it was either numbing this feeling with food or going out onto the street and jumping at the first man whatsoever that came along. This, and numbing the stress of being a fulltime working mum of 2 toddlers. 25 years of BED Career since then. 😢

@donovangray4246 4 ай бұрын

@@FemEngAT I am so sorry you're going through this.😔

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

It sounds like food really did provide a sense of safety by dulling those feelings. This is a difficult path to navigate and there's not much I can offer on KZbin except to say NOTHING you felt back then (or now) was wrong. Bodies feel and react in unpredictable and unexpected ways and then our brains try to make sense of it by making us wrong for our responses that are actually beyond our control ❤️‍🩹

@donovangray4246 4 ай бұрын

@@TheBingeEatingTherapist thank you for your explanation. It's helpful to have someone explain it to me this way.

@katie7748 4 ай бұрын

Look at the relationship between sugars and hormones.

@Mica-gc7ec 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@paulawhittaker3538 4 ай бұрын

Fingers crossed the house sale goes through 🤞🤞🤞

@paulawhittaker3538 4 ай бұрын

The last part of not liking yourself resonated but if I dont like myself why does that mean I dont know myself?? I know who I am and what's happened in my life, and there isnt much to like. This is coming from someone who is half century old.

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

This is my philosophical standpoint; I believe we are more than our experiences and conditioning. I believe that if people could really see themselves beyond this, they would see how worthy and lovable they are. My belief is that if people do not recognise their inherent worth then they are defining themselves by experiences that are not who they are. This is not a measurable fact; just my thoughts about the big questions that philosophers and religions have been arguing about for years. I don't mind at all if you have a different viewpoint ❤️

@glyndoh2206 4 ай бұрын

What does it mean when you binge eat and you don't even try anymore to stop yourself.

@TheBingeEatingTherapist 4 ай бұрын

I have talked about this in another video but I don't know which one 🙈 Your brain is always trying to conserve mental energy and anticipate the outcome, so when you have been in this battle for years, your brain 'knows' the outcome and so just skips the battle and goes straight to the outcome that ends the conflict (eating the food). I think people often feel a lot of guilt that they aren't 'trying hard enough', but actually your brain has just become very efficient about conserving energy and predicting the outcome.

@LivelyStone.0 4 ай бұрын

Eating when you’re not even physically hungry and have worked out your natural appetite, to the point of feeling sick, regularly, is horribly disorienting.