Kim Hynes Health and Wellness

You wake up from the food fog and you realize that you have been snacking like crazy. 😳
You think you’re just bad with food and you’re addicted to sugar. 🍪🍩🍫

The reality is you have a habit of using food to cope, to numb out and escape.

You may be using food to avoid uncomfortable feelings, even if it’s just procrastination or boredom.💯💯

☕️Hang out with me, grab a cup of coffee and I’ll keep reminding you
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It’s not about the food

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You’re hiding the food, hiding the wrappers and hiding the feelings.😳

You’re embarrassed by your secret eating but you also know that your emotional eating is causing consequences with your body like weight gain.☹️

But when you are people pleasing, taking care of everyone else and always saying yes, when you want to say no… That’s when you fall into the food. And then feel shame. 💥💥

👉Instead of getting critical, what if you just noticed when you secret eat that maybe you just need a break from taking care of everybody else ?

You don’t want to be judged and want some alone time with that food that makes you feel better. 💯💯

Not buying the food or not secret eating will not solve the problem.👏

🔥It’s not about the food.

You can be an emotional eater, be going through hormonal changes and still be able to get the healthy body you want.

It’s so much easier to grab the food #😳

But…If it was just about the food, then we could just cut off the urge.💥💥

We could stop at one cookie if it was just about moderation.🍪🍪🍪

Sweet lady, there’s nothing wrong with you.

You’ve just gotten in the habit of using food to cope, to comfort into numb out.

And if you think that you can’t lose weight and be an emotional eater… I have news for you.
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You don’t have to go about this the traditional way through dieting.

Understanding why you eat emotionally will not only help you with your eating issues and your body, but will help you with your whole life.❤️

☕️Hang out here grab a cup of coffee and let me remind you.
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It’s not about the food

If you want to dig even deeper, check out my guide. “More Than Weightloss”

Stupid advice for emotional eaters.😳

If it was just about the food, then we could just cut off the urge.💥💥

We could stop at one cookie if it was just about moderation.🍪🍪🍪

Sweet lady, there’s nothing wrong with you.

You’ve just gotten in the habit of using food to cope, to comfort into numb out.

And if you think that you can’t lose weight and be an emotional eater… I have news for you.
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You don’t have to go about this the traditional way through dieting.

Understanding why you eat emotionally will not only help you with your eating issues and your body, but will help you with your whole life.❤️

☕️Hang out here grab a cup of coffee and let me remind you.
👇
It’s not about the food

If you want to dig even deeper, check out my guide. “More Than Weightloss”

You know that feeling☹️

At the end of the day you are spent because people have been in your face all day long💥😮

It’s not that you don’t want to take care of people, but remember it takes a lot of energy💯

Instead of giving yourself something to feel peace and have quiet, you turned into food because it’s really easy🍪🍩🍫

Food is quick, it brings you down and it definitely gives you something to make you feel better🔥

Please give yourself grace because this is so common, but it is something that you can stop❤️

You can even have health goals and get the body you want as an emotional eater🔥🔥

You just have to learn more about what’s driving you to the food and the things that you can do proactively🌺

☕️Pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and check out my guide “More Than Weightloss”

Once you understand, all the factors that are involved, you will realize it’s not just about the food🌺❤️🌺

I always blamed the food or myself.😳

I finally made the connection for me and my clients that people pleasing can go a little too far.💯💯

When you’re not taking care of yourself, but you’re taking care of everybody else’s needs… It can get ugly with the food.😳😳

But the food is just the way that you are comforting yourself and making yourself feel better because you’re not setting good boundaries, not saying no and not standing up for yourself.💥💥💥

Grab a cup of coffee, hang out and let me remind you☕️
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It’s not about the food.

When it comes to eating disorders, this episode really made me realize how much we’re missing, especially when it comes to research and treatment.

Paige Gordon lived with bulimia for over two decades. After years of treatment and explanations that didn’t fully fit her experience, she started asking different questions.

What role could genetics play? What’s happening in the brain and reward pathways? Why does treatment work for some people and not others? And where do food noise, trauma, hunger signals, and GLP pathways fit into all of this?

Paige and I also talk about her own recovery, why our struggles with food can have very different underlying causes, and why curiosity matters when the usual answers don’t fit.

This one opened my eyes.👏

🎧 Listen to the full conversation on the Emotional Eats Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, or watch on YouTube.

Please follow the show and share this episode with someone who may need this conversation.

And if you are struggling with an eating disorder or believe you may be, please reach out for help. You don’t have to navigate it alone.

Blame the food or blame your habits.☹️

That’s usually what you do, but it’s not about the food and it’s not about you eating it.🍪

It’s really about what your body and your brain are searching for.💥

Diet cultural and society have taught you that you just need to stop eating and have discipline.

Your need for food (if you’re an emotional eater) has much more to do with reward, comfort, and calming the nervous system.

Hang out with me, grab a cup of coffee and let’s talk.☕️

I’m here to remind you that it’s so much more than the food.

It’s also about your brain.

I thought I was just bad with food.☹️ and addicted to sugar.

I thought I had no willpower and I was failing another diet.

The biology behind the emotional and physical needs when you’re tired can drive you into the junk food to feel better. 💯💯

Hang out here, grab a cup if coffee coffee and let me remind you…

It’s not about the food and it’s not about the willpower. 🙌🙌