Why You Can’t Lose Weight

6 ways to clear your connection with food

Many of us struggle with food and it is often a love-hate relationship. From a very young age, we associate food with emotional nourishment. Indeed food is not just the fuel we use to go about our day it is also a source of emotional comfort. We often indulge in it as a means to handle stress, sadness, irritation, nervousness or any emotional upset that we don’t really want to face. Distracting ourselves mentally with the act of eating and physically with the energy of digestion is a way to cope with those wounds. But at some point, after we ate all we could in an attempt to fulfil that inner void, when there are no distractions left, when there are no more foods that can make us feel better, we are left with the undeniable need to deal with the energy of our emotions.

According to scientific studies stress has a huge impact on digestion. Here are three examples of how stress affects the digestive system:

• Appetite de-regulation (driving people to eat more or less, typically more, as people seek out for care and/or nourishment in food);
• Increase of cortisol and insulin (if the body is constantly under stress it is under a fight or flight mode, which means it will tend to accumulate everything you eat and store it);
• Digestive upset, killing healthy gut…