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 use of food/emotion journals
• Describe 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