Nov 3, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What Defines Emotional Eating? What is an emotional eater? Emotional eating is turning to food for other reasons besides physical hunger and to soothe, distract or numb out from a...
Oct 24, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
If you’re wondering what you can replace emotional eating with, then this post is for you. I’ve got a list of 99 things you can do instead of emotional eating. Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Emotional Eating Coach, Board Certified Health...
Oct 24, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating, Nourishment and Self Care, Overcoming Overeating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC How To Comfort Yourself Without Food Learning how to comfort myself without food was crucial in my own journey to break free of emotional eating, binge eating, and overeating. Here...
Oct 24, 2023 | Binge Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Affirmations for Binge Eating While I go through phases of being super into using affirmations, I find them helpful when I can remember to be consistent with them! Affirmations...
Oct 24, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, Intuitive Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What Is Mental Hunger? Mental hunger is the desire for food for a non-physical reason. I like to think of mental hunger as a “red flag” from our body–it’s a sign to go deeper to...
Oct 13, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, How to Stop Emotional Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC “I need to know how to deal with emotional eating!” The key to dealing with emotional eating is taking a holistic approach. Because emotions and food are complex, taking into...
Sep 28, 2023 | Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What does it mean when you don’t know what to eat? When I first began working to listen to my body, I had NO idea what I wanted to eat. I spent over a decade in the diet and...
Sep 28, 2023 | Binge Eating, Emotions and Eating
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC Wondering how to have “willpower” with food? In my 13 year battle of relentlessly starting and stopping 116 diets, I convinced myself that all I needed was more willpower. It’s not...
Sep 25, 2023 | Binge Eating, Emotions and Eating
“Why do I dissociate when I eat?” Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC When I used to compulsively binge eat, I felt a deep dissociation with my body. It was like something took over my body and I couldn’t...
Sep 1, 2023 | Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC “Um, why am I not losing weight on Ozempic!?” There are so many reasons why you might not be losing weight despite taking Ozempic, the so-called magical weight-loss drug. But in...
Aug 16, 2023 | Freedom From Dieting, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC “Just this ONE last time. I’ll go back on Weight Watchers one more time, and that’s it!” This was me, making promises to myself right before I moved from Philly to...
Jul 26, 2023 | Emotions and Eating, Holistic Weight Loss
Written by Jenn Hand, Holistic Nutritionist, Board Certified Health Coach, NBC-HWC What Is a Health Coach? According to the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches, a health coach “supports clients in activating internal strengths and external resources to...