Emotional Eating and Dieting with Errin Smith
Episode description
Dieting and emotional eating often go hand in hand. Emotional eating is often a response to deep-rooted emotions such as trauma, stress, anxiety, or depression, while dieting is the most common approach used to combat emotional eating. When dealing with uncomfortable feelings, it can be difficult to sit with them. We often try to escape from them by self-medicating with food, exercise, shopping, or anything that gives us instant pleasure, which drifts us away from our fitness goals.
Fitness and health are not a simple equation of dieting, exercise, and food as we perceive. The true solution to achieving long-term health and wellness lies from within. Understanding your emotional triggers, how they shape your behavior, and working on your transformation is key to making lasting positive results. It is only when we take an honest look at ourselves and connect with our inner selves that we can truly make progress in achieving our goals.
In this episode of Fall in Love with Fitness, Errin Smith shares with me her journey, how her emotional eating and dieting created havoc in her body, and how she transformed her life. Learning how to work on our emotional triggers and build a healthy relationship with food without dieting and demonizing some food groups.
What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
- Dieting and how micronutrient deficiency can create havoc in the body
- How demonizing a particular food group creates harm to our health
- Gut health, how to optimize it, and develop a good relationship with food
- How to go inside, work on your emotions, find your healing, and rewire yourself
- And much more!
“If you show up for your life, life will show up for you.” – Errin Smith
Topics Covered:
00:43 – Errin’s backstory and how she got where she’s today
06:45 – What drew Errin into the fitness space
08:13 – When Errin's emotional eating started
11:31 – Errin’s out-of-control eating experience
14:56 – Errin’s intro into dieting after trying to gain her whole life
18:08 – Errin’s relationship and rules around food
21:07 – Gut health and how Errin's gut health started escalating
28:36 – How Errin was finally able to work on her emotions, eating and dieting
32:29 – How Errin’s day looks like now around exercise and nutrition
36:24 – What inspired the “What We Crave” movement
40:50 – Errin’s final words of inspiration
42:57 – How to reach out and connect with Errin
Key Takeaways:
Demonizing a particular food group or eating style harms our health.
When your gut health is off, everything is off.
Dieting and exercise are not the solutions to your weight problems.
Gratitude to your body is great; when you find gratitude, everything changes, and your body knows it.
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