We know what we should and shouldn't eat, and yet, somehow we can't stay committed to a healthy eating plan. We think it's a simple issue of will power, but there's so much more at the root of the problem. This journal is designed to help you identify emotional eating triggers so that you can stay committed to improving your health. 

Most people think of getting healthy as a physically-centered change, but for me, the change was more of a mental and spiritual one. I really had to shift my thinking about food and get a better understanding of why I was craving certain foods.

So I started keeping track of my cravings. For the most part, I overcame the majority of my cravings, but it was only because I had put some strategies in place that kept me from being in a state of starvation. 

Tracking my eating habits allowed me to see patterns and triggers that I would never have noticed, otherwise. Doing this forced me to really see that I wasn’t even hungry when the cravings hit and that made me start asking myself some questions. Why did I want to eat when I clearly wasn’t hungry? Why did I feel such a sense of grief that I couldn’t just eat the cookies? 

Those were the questions that helped me discover that I had some serious emotional dependencies on food, and if I wanted to overcome this struggle once and for all, I was going to have to resolve them. That’s how I was able to put my cravings aside and really start doing the healing work that I needed to do emotionally and physically.