Tag: emotional regulation
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A good cry
Is crying cathartic? Dietitian Lucy Carey explores the role of emotional crying in health, and how it can help with disordered eating. “It’s grief for me,” he said, voice trembling slightly. “It’s the grief that stops me sleeping. I lost my wife, and now I’ve lost my dog, too.” He was an elderly gentleman, skinny…
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Overcoming emotional eating
Emotional eating isn’t solved by willpower… We need to dig into the root cause: the emotions themselves. Food isn’t just food. Food is memories and pleasure and comfort… and yes, food can also be a way to cope with overwhelming emotions. Stress, anxiety and depression are running rampant in our fast-paced society, and alongside this…
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The benefits of binge eating
The reason you binge eat is because you get a benefit from it. Dietitian Lucy Carey explains how this works. The exam was a week away. I had been studying for this for months, I was only going to get one shot at passing it, and the pass rate was 80%. Boy oh boy was…