Breaking Out of the Emotional Eating Cycle with Catherine Dickson

The Art of Health™ by Rob Bee

Have you been guilty of suppressing your inner 'wild child'? Are there treats you love but you don't allow yourself to enjoy and savour?

Do you want to learn how you can give yourself the permission to eat foods that you love in a way that works for you? Relax and listen to this episode as today’s guest guides us through the world of unhealthy (and healthy) eating cycles.

Catherine Dickson is the Founder of RISE Holistic Health, and is also an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and ACSM Certified Personal Trainer. Through RISE Holistic Health, she teaches women how to stop binging, emotional eating, and yo-yo dieting, so they can reclaim their self confidence, feel beautiful in their body, and revive their gut health with ease.

In this episode, Catherine shares insights about our ways of eating that unfortunately bring us scarcity in life. Here, she talks about the emotional eating cycle and its negative impact, specifically focusing on how we’re trying to limit ourselves with treats that we love. She also talks about ways we can remain healthy without having to stay away from those treats.

What you will learn in this episode:

• Know what emotional eating cycle is and how it affects your health;
• Discover which among your actions are bringing scarcity in your life;
• Find out ways on how you can free yourself from binging, emotional eating, and yo-yo dieting.

“We need to be able to pivot and really meet ourselves at where we are to be able to have the most effective transformation in our life that we want.” – Catherine Dickson

Valuable Free Resource:

Access a 60-min virtual workshop recording: “How to Stop Binging, Emotional Eating, & Yo-Yo Dieting, For Good!” through RISE Holistic Health's website https://riseholistichealth.com/

Topics Covered:

02:20 – The biggest challenge people face as they age with regard to staying fit, healthy, and positive: Feeling and believing that whatever worked well for you in the past is going to work exactly the same again and again as you age.

03:53 – The common mistakes or misconceptions people have about solving that problem: When it comes to changes in nutrition, you’re wanting to eat healthier and lose weight, so you restrict yourself with foods.

06:03 – The number one tip; a tangible specific action that people could implement right away: Choose one thing that you really love and let yourself have it.

09:08 – Free resource: A 60-min virtual workshop recording: “How to Stop Binging, Emotional Eating, & Yo-Yo Dieting, For Good!” through RISE Holistic Health's website https://riseholistichealth.com/

Takeaways:

“What I find is that the best way to really implement that healthy life and really get out of that emotional eating cycle and all of that is to actually let yourself have some of those things [treats that you love].” – Catherine Dickson

“We don't want to live in that all-or-nothing mindset where it's 'I’m on the wagon' or 'I'm off the wagon'. Let's just get rid of the wagon. We don't need it.” – Catherine Dickson

“I want you to choose the thing that you really like and let yourself have it. You can have one, but choose it very intentionally. And when you're sitting there and you're deciding to have it, say to yourself: This is my choice. I am letting myself have this because I love it.” – Catherine Dickson

“Savour it. Slow down. Take your time, and really let yourself just be in that moment where you're feeling more empowered, rather than you're feeling like you've succumbed to the temptation. Because even just the mindset shift of going at it from that place of choice, from that place of 'I want this thing. I'm going to let myself have it, and I'm going to savour every moment', what happens is, is that when you really do that and you practice that, it's incredible because then it's not scarce anymore.” – Catherine Dickson

Connect with Catherine Dickson:

• Website: https://riseholistichealth.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theholisticbiscuit/
• Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/discoveringfoodfreedom

Connect with Rob Bee:

• Website: https://theartofhealth.fit/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-bee-a809a061/