How to Stop Emotional Eating with Natasha Nashea

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Welcome back everyone to another episode of the real Authority show. I'm your host Rick Harrison. And this week we are continuing our mini-series on health and wellness and I'm joined this week by my guests Natasha - A who has some really interesting topics to cover today. She's been featured in a bunch of different media. I'll clarify that later but she's also right now competing for Miss health and fitness, which is I think is amazing and she's going to be talking about emotional eating which.

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Something I know I've been struggling with ever since covid and I haven't luckily I've just gotten back to a point where I think you know, I'm starting to feel a little bit better, but it was a struggle for the last several months. And I know that's something that a lot of people have been struggling with since covid has taken place and everybody was kind of cooped up inside, but we're going to meet our guest right after this.

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Welcome back everyone. As I said this week, we're joined by Natasha nashe and she is an emotional eating expert. She's been featured in Voyage Phoenix magazine top 10.com southern girl radio several podcast shows and most recently has been competing in to be named Miss health and fitness 2020 the winner of which will go on to be featured on muscle and fitness hers. I think that's an incredible story. I've been following her for the last.

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Several months watching her grow and start to Branch out and start to get a little bit uncomfortable. I know she just published a book recently, which is amazing as well. And what welcome to the show and Tasha. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So when are you just published that book but before we even get into the book what you know, what's going on with Miss health and fitness. What's that all about? Whoo. Well, luckily I am.

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In top five, so it's been a journey. So it's one of those things that I did not expect to do I saw it and I was like, yeah, I'll pass on it and then a relative of mine saw the same ad and tagged me in and it was like you need to do this and I was like, okay why not but um, basically like you said means the winner, they they'll get a cover of a magazine.

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In men's and fitness hers and $20,000. Wow, so terrible. Yeah, so that's of course a motivator, but I'm not only that I think I I really I'm excited to do it because of the exposure that it will give me because what I do a lot of people don't talk about that kind of for me, it's it'll give me more exposure to reach people and bring more awareness to this and you know,.

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Take the taboo and the stigma out of it. Yeah, I know. I think I think it is a touchy topic for a lot of people and I know but I know it's you know, it's also something that a lot of people struggle with so it's definitely something that needs to be talked about and needs to be understood and and it is a complex, you know, just not even just Fitness but nutrition in general such a such a tough topic to talk about because there's although it's a science. It's really not a concrete science, and there's really no rules to it.

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And it varies on our bodies, right? So your body May respond to something completely different than my body. So it's just like you said it's not a science and it's different for everyone. So it's how do you find what will work for your body? Right? So I mean, you know part of the part of at least what I've been struggling but I'm sure there's a lot of people out there have been struggling with since covid is kind of limited us to you know, being quarantine.

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And not being able to go to gyms for you know a month or two at a time. I know the some states have reopened that but we've all had to kind of adapt, you know, I was used to going to the gym getting a great workout there then having to push things up and trying to figure out all right, how do I make this work at home with minimal equipment because all the dumbbells were sold out everywhere or writing for ridiculous online. So, I mean what have you on your end as an expert? How what have you seen? How what?

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I guess how is covid affected kind of that emotional eating. Oh gosh, well covid it has provoked a lot of anxiety. That's the biggest thing that I've noticed just the nature of isolation has just really changed people's eating patterns. Think about it. Now, everyone has 24/7 access to their kitchen when normally that wasn't the case right people are doing a lot of cooking baking and even getting carry out so.

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It's really changed. And I know that I said this I was guilty for being like it's Thursday and then someone's like no, it's Tuesday and it's like we're getting their days confused their daily pattern is just off. And again, it's just a lot of anxiety finances finances are changing for so many people and I think we're just living in this world of uncertainty were uncertain about our health our personal immunity food safety community.

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Ooh safety. So, you know with the constant state of unknown it's again produced a lot of anxiety a lot of stress and people want to be comforted right they want that comfort. And so what do they do? They turn to food and alcohol as we found out but so so yeah, it's definitely it's done a number on people mentally and emotionally. Yeah. Where do you I guess where you see most of the most of the.

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Shoes really beginning when it comes to emotional eating. I know, you know, I catch myself sometimes saying, you know, you know, why am I really eating this right now? I'm not I'm not hungry. I just ate an entire dinner, but you don't even really think about I know, you know, I've heard the tips where you shouldn't eat in front of a television set because you're just kind of mindlessly eating literally, but I guess what other things what are the things are like the root causes are the stressors that cause people to want to emotionally.

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You know if you think about it, so I talk to people about this all the time. It really eating is one of the first ways that we as humans have learned how to soothe ourselves. So think about when you were an infant, you know, if you cry in all likeliness your mother came down from the heavens or wherever she came from, but she responded with milk, right? And so we have Associated food with nourishment and.

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Dream so really started very young age. Most people really never learn how to deal with their emotions. So food has become in did become a way to just satisfy that emotional hunger. So if you think about it, like will use parents grandparents older adults in your family. I always say bless their heart because we think about it as a kid. If you were sad your grandma probably gave you like a piece of chocolate.

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Lata cookie something like that. Like I don't know anyone's Grandma who's going to give them some broccoli, right? That's so it's like we've learned how to nurture with food, but I think the bigger issue is that we were never truly taught how to sit with and work through our emotions and our feelings. And so people we really don't need diets really don't need diet pills, especially the emotional eater most people.

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Just need to learn how to sit with their emotions. It's what I found is the one way that has really been proven to help release you from such a toxic relationship with food and it actually brings more of a long-term healing just being able to sit with those emotions and be real about it and own them. So emotionally eating sometimes it starts from weird little bitty babies. Yeah. I think I think that's that it's around.

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Ahead to the the whole year being able to sit with it. I mean I talked last week. I talked to somebody on mindset and kind of the whole idea of being comfortable with yourself and being one with yourself and just you know being okay with being alone a little bit for some time and thinking about why why are you feeling that way but we tend to you know, deflect and choose food for that that nurture wait. Yeah. We never want to stop long enough to look in right it's what especially now so I.

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I want to age myself. But you know when I was growing up we didn't have cell phones. We didn't have any of that. Right? We have television horse, but we didn't have a lot of what people have now. So you actually picked up a book and read it, you know, it was no such thing as audible or canned or anything like that. You picked up a physical book and you learn how to read and you know you especially with me. I became very passionate about reading but reading actually opened my mind.

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And a lot some of the first books that I ever started reading was ironically self-help books, which of course helps with the total gain, but where we are in completely different times now, so it's you know, let's pick up the phone. Let's look at Tick Tock. Let's look at Facebook. Let's look at Instagram anything to distract us from dealing with what we really need to be dealing with. So, yeah, if you have a tick tock gotta ask.

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Games such a Tick-Tock addict ridiculous about I think in March is when the addiction started and now I'm it's I'm tapering, you know, I'm taping them tapering back from it. I'm getting away from it a little bit more but I was one of those people where it's like, you know, it's four o'clock and then you look up you're like, oh my God, it's six o'clock. I like what I've spent two hours on Tick-Tock, you know what I learn off dances and it's so funny because even driving down the highway like,.

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Sometimes I'll do the dances and then you know a couple days later. I'm driving. I see someone else doing the dance. You know, it's yes. I love Tick Tock hands down. So I'm trying to get into it, but I had to ask to see I mean, it seems like everybody has 100 days just do it. Just just drink the Kool-Aid man do it. So I guess.

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Going back into you know, I guess how can our audience are the listeners listening to this. How can they identify kind of those behaviors of those cues almost or even the barriers that kind of get us feeling that way to where we start emotionally eating and start creating that habit. It's so there's a lot so actually I actually have a free download on my website. It's called winning the weight loss mindset because it's all about mindset. So in order to.

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To really identify barriers that keep you just from feeling your best. I guess I would say I would say the first thing is you have to get dialed into that inner dialogue. What are you saying to yourself? And one of the things I always ask my clients and I have said very slowly because I really want them to think about this. But the question is what are you saying to yourself that you are not saying out loud?

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Yeah, I have a lot to ourselves. And in fact, the average person actually speaks about 500 Words a minute, but only about a hundred and fifty of those words are actually verbalized exactly. You cannot win a battle with emotional eating weight loss or anything until you have the right frame of mind to do it. Right? So this is all about changing that mindset. So when I talk to my clients about willpower and focus.

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I'm really talking to them about is changing and updating their mental game because before you can get your body and your health back in order, your mind has to be ready for the game because bottom line you'll never be able to outperform the way you see yourself never never never end. Some of the things that I have found is that there about three areas that people really struggle with when it comes to emotional eating. It's one they have a very poor body image.

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Right, so and 100% your image of yourself will want a hundred percent. Keep you from committing to your goals, right? So that's the first thing the second thing is, I noticed that again people are just not kind to themselves what they're saying internally that they're not verbalizing people really don't trust themselves and they don't believe that they can break the cycle of emotional eating or they don't believe that they can lose the weight.

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So they don't trust themselves. So they basically excuse themselves. They gives them they give themselves a lot of excuses to not commit. So once they lack that trust they don't commit they excuse themselves and here we are back in that same cycle and then every Monday and I joke about this with all of my clients every Monday. We're starting a new diet because it's that lack of trust and you know, you'll have someone that will start a diet on Monday.

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Day and then by Wednesday.

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It's over and then I like okay. Well, I'll plan out all of my meals for next week. And then here we go back in that cycle. So it's just a lack of trust. Okay, and you said you have a download for that on your website is all right, I do so the download is called winning the weight loss mindset and it's basically, you know, it has to do with what you say to yourself truly matters. What are you saying to yourself? It does matter in how you perform in life over. All right, and that's all.

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It's emotional eating advice.com right emotional eating advice.com. Perfect. I know you have a book that you just publish as well. That'll definitely be helpful for our viewers and you guys can find that right on our website to its has its own link right up in the top boat. I'll ask you to go over that towards the end to okay. All right, what kinds of tools I guess so once they've identified this what kinds of tools can they kind of use or how can they.

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They I guess start to break those patterns that they're starting to build and start to trust themselves a little bit more.

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So there are a couple things and I would always say there's two categories, right? So you really want to stop self sabotaging. So that's the biggest thing with emotional eaters. Will they will self-sabotage. So the first thing is you have to first in your own personal ability to self-sabotage. So recognize the ways in which you actually will self-sabotage. It's this is not easy. It's not just a physical cake game because most.

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Eaters are very concerned with their weight. So it's really not a physical game as much as it is a mental game. And the reality is that I did some research on Amazon and I just put in diet books 2020 if you research that there's about over 20,000 Books available on diet. And those are books that were written this year. And then you turn on the television you see Oprah Winfrey with Weight Watchers. There's so much.

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Information out there that it can feel scary. You know how I break the cycle of emotional eating. How do I get my body in order? How do I get my body where I want it to be, you know, and how do I start to trust myself? And so with all of the information that's out there you begin to just sell you begin to just second-guess yourself and second-guess your goals. And so my biggest piece of advice piece of advice would be, you know, first stop. Emo stop self sabotaging yourself by making.

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Small changes right this takes time. So you have to slowly integrate small changes just to make sure that you can sustain them. So small changes over a long period of time. That's the first thing so really recognize how you self-sabotage and begin to make those small changes. And the other thing is the second category I say is you have to recognize among your family and friends who's actually helping you.

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Sized right love is blinding. I love will blind you, you know take your friends and family that you love him. It's known that if you have a good support system, it's much easier to reach your goals, but it's also a fact that if you have a support system who undermined your goals.

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You fell every time right life is a team sport. We need a support system and we cannot go at life alone. And I mean again local plying you so I always encourage people to watch out for the two types of people which is the first one is your girl gang, you know my audience I deal with women all the time, so.

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Hands down you got to watch out for your girl gang. And that's those women that you know, they're your family and your friends that they cannot resist a party. They cannot resist a turn up, you know, you are included in every Taco Tuesday every Thursday Thursday every Sunday fun day. You are always on the invite and they will never let your Glasgow dry. Right? How do you have such a good time with them? But you also have to watch out because it's not that they don't support your.

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They just don't know how right so that's the first one to work watch out for and then the second group of people to watch out for are you great in tenders? That's what I call them the great in tenders. They have the best of intentions, but they just don't know how to support you. Right? So I always talk to my ladies who are married, you know, take your husband bless his heart. He is in such a difficult position, right if he's smart he will.

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Really 100% reassure you that the dress that you are wearing looks as good as look as good on you from the day. You bought it right so it still looks great honey. It looks amazing. But in reality is that you can't even zip it up anymore. God bless his heart. He's in a tough position. But then if you look at you know, your mom your grandmother, they're just like oh, you know, honey, we love you the way that you are.

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Again, as you probably heard this, right? Oh, yeah, they have the best of intentions. But again, they just they create a safe space for you to fail, you know, definitely not their intention. So you need a team you need a team. So when it comes to family and friends, I always say in list two types of people you want to enlist your expert and this is the person that they've been there they've done that and they have been successful. They've been on this journey and.

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They've won right so you can get a lot of support and encouragement from that person. So that's the first person you want to look for. And then the second person is the person that's highly engaged that person may be on the same exact path and the same exact journey is you right. So you guys can struggle together encourage each other, you know, but that person can help really Propel you and get you to the Finish Line because they're in the same game as you it's.

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This is a hard, you know, emotionally eating weight loss. It's all difficult, but it takes a lot of drive a lot of strength and a lot of commitment to really win this game, but you have to hold yourself accountable and again watch out for the ways that you self-sabotage and watch out for those individuals in your life family and friends who can really help help you set the self-sabotage. So yeah, and I know you focus you specialize mainly in women, so.

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But I think it goes the same way with guys, you know, we all we all have our guy crew that we hang out with and they want to you know, they want to go out and have fun and the positive same way. It's well and I always say, you know, I made me do with women, but I do have a few male clients and I always say that emotional eating does not have a gender. It just doesn't right guy. Our guys emotionally eat all the time, but it's funny because there's a stigma because you don't know.

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No men, usually don't talk about it as much as women and men actually don't recognize it as quickly as women do is either so yeah. Yeah, I think part of that might have to do with you know, just I guess the sort of the stigma but I think the expectations of women, you know, keeping that body image, especially with how much is plastered everywhere that have a splitting wide image, you know? Yep. Exactly. Yeah, you guys kind of little bit easier than we do it.

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Did it a lot easier? How does the I guess how does the quality of food and play into the whole emotional eating does it matter if you have really high quality food and you're still emotionally eating or this is that better or worse? So one of the things that I always talk about is good health. So the quality of your food whether you're an emotional eater or not, it is huge and especially the older that we get because we deal with hormones.

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So I really talked a lot about a few different hormones as well as amino acids. So I've talked a lot to my clients about like dopamine serotonin Gaba and glutamine. So for example dopamine that's kind of your feel-good hormone, right and so my clients that actually if you're struggling with depression or just kind of that blah mood, you're feeling sluggish always fatigue.

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Really begin to pay attention to the foods that you're craving. Right? So if you see if you notice that you're craving more sweets and caffeine and fatty foods. There's a good likelihood that your dopamine levels aren't high, right. So how do we how do we replace that so that we can start feeling better and get out of that cycle? We add more protein rich foods to our diet. We reduce the amount of saturated fats are in our diet and probiotics probiotics.

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Start huge, right? So what you eat and your brand Health, they are like one there. They are one your good health and your brain health are really one thing and I also talked about like I mentioned of serotonin levels of Serotonin is kind of that mood and emotions hormone. So, you know, if you experience anxiety worry just compulsively binging a need for control a lot of my clients.

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Giants I've noticed a lot of people I guess I shouldn't say my clients but a lot of people what I've noticed is that they're not getting certain things such as you know, Sam and some of the fats that they need the omegas they need to eat more spinach eggs different things like that because when you begin to Crave food and you're an emotional eater those Cravings are heightened, yeah really have to pay attention to what you're consuming because again hormone Ali it sometimes our home.

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Moans can work against this right? So it's really a balancing act and I get I think it goes back to exactly what you were saying earlier about you know nutrition is just not a science. It's just not so you have to really focus on how you're feeling. What are you feeling? What are you craving? What are you eating and how to combat?

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That or circumvent certain things. So again, it is not a science but brain health good health. It's really the same. Okay? No, I mean I've heard different things as far as when you get cravings for certain things that like, for example, I've heard for Cravings with sugar you can sometimes replace that with things like nuts that are a little bit fattier. Do you have tips like that? Are there certain Cravings that you know how to curve with different foods.

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Absolutely. So since we're in covid I'm going to talk about wine first. So yeah, so let's say if you you have a craving for let's say wine or chocolates sweets in general. I would say let's let's start increasing the amount of salmon that you're taking in my poultry eggs. If you into Dairy Foods milk, but seeds sunflower seeds pumpkin seeds.

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Really help to kind of stable way some of those cravings for like I said the wine the chocolates different things like that. And then you know, if you if you notice that you know, you're you're wanting more starchy foods low fat yogurt has always been my go-to whatever. I'm craving starching starchy Foods low-fat yogurt being such as like chickpeas or kidney beans on the huge kidney bean fan, so,.

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Again starches, you know, you really want to go with grass-fed sources of protein as well. All right, when I guess when it comes to emotional eating, how can we kind of approach approach eating to be a little bit more mindful? What's I know? We've kind of talked about a few of those things throughout this discussion, but is there anything in particular that you do like a specific habit that you do to to approach eating mindfully every time you go.

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To make something or go to even if you're going out for food take out or eating out of the restaurant. What do you do to bring yourself back to reality and say do I really need this kind of you know, I mean, I think you hit it right here. It is really just staying in tune with what you're doing because.

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When we turn to food, we usually are living from the neck up, right? So there's a disconnect between our emotions and whether or not we're genuinely hungry. So I would actually start by just spending a few seconds of your day. Just checking in with your body and just noticing how are you feeling? So in order to do that, you have to actually put your brain on pause, you know, find out am I really hungry or is there something else going on?

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Right now that I'm either avoiding or I'm just trying to stuff down, you know, am I abandoning myself to help someone else prioritize their needs so it's really just getting in tune with what's going on. Again A lot of people are never taught to sit with their emotions sit and think about how they truly feel. What are they truly thinking? A lot of people will remove so fast in this Society right now a lot of people don't.

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Stop to think about what they're thinking about right? So if they're not going to stop to think about what they're thinking about. They're not going to stop long enough to think about how they're truly feeling. They're just on autopilot. Sometimes we just need time alone. Sometimes we just need to take a break disconnect and then reconnect with our mind and our body. So for me just from a personal standpoint. I'm always asking myself. Okay, let me let me do a temperature check. This is what I say to myself me do a temperature check.

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I really want this or am I just am I being greedy or what what else is going on because usually like for me there's usually something else going on that. I'm like I want Thai and I'm like wait. No, you don't really want I what are you doing with? You know, it's really just taking a few seconds and it really takes a few seconds. But I think the hardest part about it is that people aren't honest with themselves.

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Right. So that's where it really comes. You know, that's where that's ribs kind of the rubber hits the road. It's like if you can just be honest with what you're thinking and how you're feeling you can you can come out of it quicker. So yeah. Yeah. It's that that trust and that Honesty peace. Those are hard. We as adults we learn we have learned to lie to ourselves. So well, that's enough for that second piece of pie.

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I worked out, you know this kind of hung out. I was like really. Yeah, maybe you should have just backed away, you know, but hey, you know you we always give ourselves that out. You know, I've worked out 5 days this week or you know, we always want the reward if you think about it. We have not done that much work. I'm high. I was talking to someone.

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A few weeks ago and she's like, oh, yeah, you know Brad a half marathon, you know, because now we're having all these virtual marathons or whatever and she's like, yeah, and then she mentioned what she ate. It was like, well, you know that during that half marathon you probably only burned about 250 calories give or take. It's just like no way it's a half-marathon Natasha and I was like, yeah, but you were at a steady Pace unless you were sprinting.

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Ting I don't want to speak for you know, but it's a things like we love to reward ourselves for the little bit of work that we do so yeah. Yeah used to used to kill me when I was when I was running the gym all the people who come in and they'd say, you know, I worked out 5 days this week and would you have over this weekend? Well, I had you know, I had three meals and you know, I had all this chicken and it's meatloaf and I had a bunch of beers with it. I'm like you just you worked all of that back onto your.

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Do you put that one day of you know, and they're always like why why am I losing any weight? Well, you know, what are you eating? There's never ever look at that part. Yes. No, tell him I'm over it. So yeah, so I think you know, I think there's probably some listeners out there that also have the struggle where it's not necessarily for them that they're listening to this, but I guess how do you have any suggestions on how?

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They can maybe help somebody who really does probably need some help with the emotional eating but they're not really they're not at that point where they feel like they do, you know, like the people who are a little bit in denial. Is there something that you can say or that they could their loved ones could say to them or do for them to help support them and encourage them, you know, I would say you have to recognize that emotional eating is really someone.

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To avoid an underlying issue. And so what they do is they use food as the mechanism to self-soothe. So trying to actually solve the emotional eating it actually doesn't work because emotional eating really isn't about the problem is just about the way of coping with the real problem. So I would say first try to help that person understand what the real problem is is once you can work with the real problem.

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You can work through the emotional issues, right? So it's I mean, for example, I have people who always say, you know, I always eat when I'm bored.

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And for me immediately because I've been doing this for a while. I recognize that someone who's just eating because they're bored. It's really because of a lack of that sense of fulfillment or fulfilling connections, right? So you're feeling disconnected whether it's you may not have a lot of solid friendships may not have a healthy relationship with your partner or family members. There may be some lack of social connection.

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So I would say to a family member or friend who's really concerned. I would say just dive into that person's behavior and help them really understand what the issue is and why they are using food to actually sued. Whatever that underlying issue is.

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Yeah. No, I think that's a that's a very valid point and I'm sure there's plenty of people who are struggling with all probably a majority of those things that you just mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. I hear it a lot. I hear that a lot. Yeah.

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Well, I think you know, I think that's pretty I mean, that's pretty much what I call I had wanted to know really asking I'm sure there's a lot of things that we could cover but it would probably take us a long time to cover all that stuff as well rather than trying to go through it all on here. I'd rather people defer to you directly and and ask the questions to you. So I'm going to throw the throw your website up on the screen again.

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But while I'm doing that tell us a little bit about the book that you just published. All right. So emotional eater survival tool kit this baby has been in my heart and my mind for years and you know the this book it's really I say, it's it's for the woman who knows that she's an emotional eater. She recognizes her signs and triggers.

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Has she just feels stuck within her mind and her body but she still uses food as a way of coping she uses food as a way to distract and so she's moving so far away from the real issues so far away from that feeling of discomfort. And so this book helps that woman come back to Center, but then move forward I always tell, you know people who.

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Ask me about it. I always say like it's a challenge. This book is a challenge because I am going to challenge you to really move the needle really understand your pitfalls really understand and dig into your mindset because you you understand that your emotional eater, you know, and a lot of emotional eaters understand their triggers, but the problem that they have is moving to action. So I teach them how to take a.

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Action and do the internal work that's necessary and that's required in order to really move from that fear-based thinking that lack of trust and help them recognize the things that have really just perverted their ability to move forward in life and I challenged them to move forward despite. So it's a it's baby has been in the works for a while. So I'm glad I got it out. So yeah. Well that's quite an accomplishment is so many people who.

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I want to write and it takes a long time and you're you know, you're it's tough to do it's tough to get out. There's a lot of people who know stuff but you know actually putting it down and getting it into a book and Publishing it that's a huge step. So congratulations on that and I hope it does really well. Thank you. And for those of you who are listening and not actually watching the video the YouTube video the website that you can find all this at is emotional eating advice.com, very simple, very straightforward. So,.

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You to remember there's a bunch of other resources on there. You can also read some of the articles that in the Tosh has been featured in so and then of course, obviously she coaches. So for those of you who are looking for advice even just guidance. She has a consultation on there that you can you know, just talk to you a little bit about what you're dealing with and she also does coach. So if you're looking for a little bit more support and guidance, feel free to go to our website and book a consultation.

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Doctor about it. Well, like I said, I really appreciate you being here and spending some time with us today and Tasha and you know, I'm going to put all of your information in the description on the YouTube video. And so I'll have your website there and how to get in contact with you and all that stuff and also have links to your book as well. Is there anything else you feel like you want to cover with our listeners or viewers at?

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Really? I think that's it. I'm like I said, there's the free download on the website. There's the e-book emotional eaters. So emotional eater survival tool kit. I do one-on-one coaching. I do give it one hour free consultation. I am just here as a resource. I I love the I love what I do. I love just being that voice of Hope and courage for women. You know, I always say my zone of Genius is really helping women.

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That cycle of emotional eating so that they can find their voice really use their voice and begin to win in life. So that's what I want to say. I want to see more women taking the lids off and just win just been so nothing against my guys. However, you know, we can take some point of pages out of the Playbook to yeah, I think so. Yeah. So I just say go to the website reach out to me. I do have a Facebook page its Natasha - A and then I do have.

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Another Facebook group. This one's a group. It's a free group break free from emotional eating in awesome group of ladies in there. We do everything from you know, we may do a monthly Challenge on like push-ups or wall sits and then we may do nutrition challenge, but it's all just a very good source of support. We have really good ladies in that group. So it's just a fun group. I love my lady. So yeah, so yeah also,.

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For you guys. Like I said, she is competing in Miss health and fitness and she has a link to vote for her. So please vote for her. I've been voting every day. So you get one free vote a day. And if you want more you can there's another type of voting on that but you're in the top you are you in the final round now. Yeah. Well Thursday in Thursday ends the top three top five. So right now I'm in third place. So I mean that's good I have.

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Interestingly when it started I was in first place for like two days and then for the remainder of the competition I've made in third place. So, you know, let's get me the first place guys. I would appreciate all the votes. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Well again appreciate your time. Yeah. No, I didn't absolutely appreciate your time. I appreciate all the advice and you know things.

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That you cover today to help our audience and our listeners. But yeah, I appreciate it. Anyway. Yeah, and I will talk to you. All right.