Wedding Weight-Loss Roadblock: Emotional Eating
Wanting to turn to food for emotional reasons is a situation you may face on your road to becoming a Bombshell Bride. Nutritionist and TV host Felicia Stoler shows brides-to-be how to handle this upsetting stumbling block.
If your angry or upset inner child demands to be comforted with food, know you have the power to choose other options.
As you begin your wedding diet or healthy eating plan, you’re probably filled with excitement and motivation. Pretty soon, though, life may intrude and before you know it, you’re standing in front of the fridge like a zombie. What to do? For the answer, Bombshell Bride consulted Felicia Stoler, nutritionist and exercise physiologist and host of TLC’s Honey We’re Killing the Kids.
Wedding Weight-Loss Roadblock: You’ve been doing great on your diet but after a bad day at work you came home to an empty house and scarfed a pint of Häagen Dazs chocolate chip cookie dough.
Felicia’s Fix: There are foods that talk to me from the refrigerator and pantry that are my “binge” foods, and I simply refuse to keep them in my house. If your routine is to come home and go directly to the kitchen for relief, then consider changing your habits.
When you are stressed out after work, find another way to relieve your burden. Go directly to the gym for a workout, which will release endorphins and relieve your stress. Or take a hot shower or bath, put on some soothing music and take some time to shed your workday (and clothes) so that you can be relaxed and present at home.
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Also make sure you are not skipping meals and coming home ravenous. But if you are hungry, give yourself permission to have a healthy snack when you come home, for example, a handful of nuts or eight to 10 baby carrots while you are cooking dinner to ease any hunger pangs.
What do you do when you tempted to overeat for emotional reasons? Tell us, we’d love to hear!
Felicia Stoler
Felicia Stoler is host of TLC’s show “Honey We’re Killing the Kids,” a PR Chair and Past President of the New Jersey Dietetic Association, a Vice President of the Greater NY Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a nutrition coordinator for the ING NYC Marathon.
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I found the tips on eating a snack while cooking very useful, since I find that is the time I just tend to nibble at whatever it is that I happen to be making at the time consuming extra, unnecessary calories. I also found that a glass of water flavored with organic lime juice and stevia extract to be helpful if I am looking for something sweet.