Emotional Eating: The Connection Between Mood and Food

This workshop will address the relationship between emotions and food consumption and how to retrain your body and mind to recognize the cues of hunger and to eat for physiological and not emotional reasons.

Workshop objectives:

Identify what  is “emotional eating”

• Identify the two types of hunger
• Describe the characteristics and the consequences of emotional eating
• Describe the situations that trigger emotional eating

Identify strategies for combating emotional eating

• Describe the role of self-talk in emotional eating
• Describe the use of food/emotion journals
• Describe the use of visualizations
• Describe how environmental modifications can reduce impulse eating
• Describe how to incorporate stress management techniques to reduce emotional eating

Identify a personal action plan to confront emotional eating

• Identify your hunger signals
• Identify your barriers to adopting a new eating strategy
• Clarify your motivation for change
• Identify a realistic relapse plan