How to Break Free From Emotional Eating

It’s here! Launch day for my new book, Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating! I wish we could all just snap our fingers and be through with our weight loss woes forever, but unfortunately we can’t do that! Instead, God invites us to walk with Him through the transformation process.

That’s hard to make ourselves do, because often emotional eating is a stronghold. We’ve turned to food for comfort and safety for so long that it’s hard to stop. Not only that, we also have spiritual warfare going on as Satan doesn’t want us to break free from emotional eating. And definitely doesn’t want us to develop a renewing of the mind habit.

I know how hard it is because it took me more than five years to start consistently renewing my mind in the area of food boundaries. I needed all that renewing to break free, and if my emails are any indication, that’s what it takes for others to break free. Over and over when I ask people how they’re doing, the ones who renew several times a day in writing are seeing success, and the ones who renew only once a day, or not at all, aren’t seeing success.

I’m praying this will be a great new write-in-the-book resource to help you break free from emotional eating. If you’d like to see how it is different from my other books, check out this blog post and podcast episode: Why Did I Write Another Book on Emotional Eating? 

How to Break Free from Emotional Eating

In today’s podcast episode, I visit with my friend Trish of the Happy, Holy, Healthy Life YouTube channel about how God changed me through the renewing of the mind after a 25-30 year emotional eating stronghold. You can either listen to the podcast or watch the interview on YouTube

Watch on YouTube: How I Broke Free from Emotional Eating

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Leader’s Guide for Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating

Several women have asked if they could lead this as a group study. I think it would be great to do with a group and I am busy creating a leader’s guide for that purpose. I’ll come back and add that to this post when it’s ready (hopefully in a week), but email me if you need one sooner as I already have most of it written!

What We Talked About on this Episode

• Definition of emotional eating
• My own journey with emotional eating
• The difference between emotional eaters and non-emotional eaters
• Common lies we believe that contribute to overeating
• What a truth journal session looks like
• Why willpower doesn’t work to overcome emotional eating
• How to let go of negative emotions and emotional eating
• Why boundaries are important
• Can food be an idol?
• Does it ever get easier to maintain your weight?

Watch the interview with Trish from the Happy, Holy, Healthy Life here.