Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss

Because It's Not Always About the Food (feat. Jessica Procini)

Episode Summary

We've all had those moments...when making the nutritious choice feels like climbing Mount Everest. Why is that? Other times, we're eating in celebration, in consolation and frankly it can feel like food often fits any emotion! Enter Jessica Procini, emotional eating expert. Jessica and Jenn walk us through this complicated world of emotional eating, from identifying the emotional eater, understanding the root of the behavior and the underlying emotional need. The result of this work? A powerful new outlook, transformed habits and potentially achievement you never would've imagined. Become a Member: https://glow.fm/saladwithasideoffries/ Check Out Jessica's website: https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/ Jessica's IG: https://www.instagram.com/jessprocini/ Jessica's FB: https://www.facebook.com/EscapeFromEmotionalEating/

Episode Notes

Outline:

• Meet Jessica Procini, emotional eating expert
• Identifying the emotional eater, the picture in our heads vs reality
• Food addiction & emotional eating vs other addictions
• Understanding this in the context of fundamental human needs, physical & emotional
• How do we talk about and address emotional eating
• Defining "satiation," physical & emotional
• The 4 roots of emotional eating: fear, hyper-vigilance, self-abnegation & self-loathing
• What to do next, after identifying the root
• The underlying emotions of the 4 roots: loe, safety, sense of belonging/connection & happiness 
• How to properly enroll supporters (or not!) to help us through the process
• Key takeaways
• Emotional eating stealing our energy & what happens when we get that back

Links:
Become a Member
Connect with us! FB Page & Private FB Group & Jenn's Instagram
Take the free Weight Loss Profile, Jenn will send you a Menu Plan
Connect with Jessica on Instagram, Facebook & her website 

Quotes:
"I was using food to numb myself. I didn't want to be numb anymore...and I didn't want to think about food all the time." - Jessica Procini
"Now food is a nourishing asset." - Jessica Procini
"Emotional eating only makes turbulent times more turbulent." - Jenn Trepeck