Are you busy, ambitious and looking for a way to curb emotional eating for good? On today's podcast we catch up with Alegra Loewenstein. She is a Health Coach specialising in helping busy women to get rid of the guilt around eating showing them how to eat what they want and lose weight naturally in the process, no counting and no restrictions. How To Curb Emotional Eating * Her approach to eating and losing weight is very different to the conventional way of thinking. She believes that for the vast majority of people you can eat whatever you want. This can be achieved by listening to our bodies and respecting it. * When we are tuned into our bodies we will eat when we are hungry, stop eating when we are full and as a result our bodies will get the exact amount of food we need to be our best and look our best. Our bodies will actually get rid of the excess weight naturally. * She says that you can curb emotional eating by learning to eat the right amount of junk food that is satisfying, feels good and taste good but when it stops feeling good you will stop eating it. We get into this trap of not listening to our bodies at all which is the catch with all the other advice we get from various sources. * If you are measuring what you eat based on a certain number of calories then you have just totally ignored anything that your body has to say about it. For example, you may have just finished exercised and you are very hungry but you will stop eating when you reach your allowed quota, like those 100 calorie snack bags. * She has met a lot of women who are under eating during the day with 100 calories here and 200 calories there and by the end of the day their bodies are telling them that it is so hungry. When added to the stress of the day many women just go to the kitchen cupboard and eat the entire box of cookies. * There are so many weight loss diets on the market but the truth is what works for one person does not work or the next person. If you feel good eating two meals a day and you feel fantastic you should do it. If you are suffering and totally not enjoying yourself by eating two meals a day then she predicts that diet will not work for you. * In the beginning, when you try to curb emotional eating it is not going to be easy because we have trained ourselves to count calories, to eat the wild berries from Amazon so we have to literally un-train ourselves. As women we are ambitious and busy so we are not always going to be able to pay attention to our bodies so we have to do a little bit of planning to get it right. Why Do You Do What You Do She really enjoys helping women let go of the old story, where we have to starve ourselves and eat things that taste like cardboard, punish ourselves to achieve a health goal. She's helping women to stop feeling guilty about their food and stop feeling like the only way to win is to eat these horrible things and to starve themselves. She really wants to help them transform their relationship with food. She is really good at helping them. She gets to work with so many amazing women. They get better at doing what they do. Food feels like a friend to them. They are turning to food because they feel bored or stressed or they have a project to complete and going to the fridge and eating a slice of cheese is so much nicer. Who Was The Role Model In Your Life She really does not have business owners in her family. She always had the idea to own her own business while growing up. She wanted to have a candy store at one point when she was addicted to sugar even tea shop on another occasion. When she heard about being a Health Coach she immediately thought that she would be so good at that without knowing what a health coach actually does. She grew up eating healthy because her Mother was ...
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