From "Live to Eat" to "Eat to Live"

Ever since high school, I felt like I needed to lose weight, that I was never thin enough, even though I wasn’t overweight and was fit. From my earliest memories, I had intense junk food cravings. I would sneak food, steal my sibling's Halloween candy, and was obsessed with making sure I always had food around.

In my twenties, I began to make healthier food choices but continued to have intense food cravings and sneak junk or overeat it when it was available. I tried every diet known, lost a few pounds, and gained them back the moment I stopped the diet. I had no idea at the time I was feeding my emotions. I allowed stress to go unmanaged and I began having more physical symptoms as well as anxiety and depression.

In my early 40’s, my way of eating and living caught up with me and I started putting on weight I couldn’t take off. The coping mechanisms I put in place were no longer working. Within a few years, I had high cholesterol, was pre-diabetic, struggled with anxiety, high blood pressure, insomnia, was obese, fatigued, was hopeless and overall miserable in my skin.

I tried dieting, walking, and counseling, journaling, taking weekend sabbaticals, reading self-help books, but couldn’t get on top of my food cravings, weight gain, or health challenges. It would be years before I realized that I had been dealing with food addictions and emotional/stress eating my entire life.

At 49, I was hopeless and at the end of my rope, when a good friend introduced me to a different way of eating. This was a radically different way of approaching life and food. It wasn't just about the food but it wasn't not about the food either. I began adding more whole foods to my diet. I began to discover ways to lower my stress response that had been triggering my emotional stress eating. I was finally able to actually incorporate things that people suggest doing, but rarely do - like gratitude and walking.

I lost weight, lowered my blood pressure, my blood sugar normalized and I got off all medications AND most of all, found “my happy”. I worked to get to the root and understand the why behind my food addictions and the need to eat emotionally. I’ve learned to eat to live and not live to eat.

I am empowered now to make healthy food and life choices knowing I’m worthy of living the life I was meant to live. A life filled with food and emotional freedom, friendship, family, adventure, and travel, as I help others do the same. I love that I now am able to empower high-achieving women to conquer stress-eating, increase their energy, lose weight, and confidently live with renewed purpose, vitality, and joy. I love to help people break free from the trap of the emotional eating roller coaster of emotions, stress and diets and find their "happy" too.

If you are someone who has struggled with high stress, emotional eating, food addictions, and the physical and mental symptoms that follow, and want to heal your relationship with food and take back control of your life, then click below to get my free starter kit.