EP: 867 - How to Eat One Cookie and Move On With Your Day

Have you ever watched someone eat one homemade chocolate chip cookie with a cup of tea and then casually move on with their day?

Meanwhile, the moment you eat something sweet, it feels like something switches in your brain.

You have one cookie, immediately want another and start telling yourself:

“I should only have one.”

“Why can’t I stop?”

“I’ve already messed up.”

Before you know it, you’ve eaten several cookies, feel painfully full and promise yourself you’ll do better tomorrow. You might even throw out whatever is left or swear you’ll never bake cookies again.

But the people who can eat one cookie and move on usually aren’t forcing themselves to stop at one.

They aren’t following a strict rule.

Their body and brain simply feel content and satisfied.

In this episode, I’m breaking down why putting pressure on yourself to “just have one” can actually make you feel more impulsive around food and what needs to change for stopping to begin feeling natural.

You’ll learn:

• Why the rule “I can only have one” can activate your inner rebel
• How guilt after a second cookie can turn into an all-or-nothing binge
• Why being ravenously hungry makes it harder to feel satisfied
• Why being overly full can also trigger continued eating
• The difference between eating from a craving and eating from an urge
• Why feeling calm and regulated matters when eating a trigger food
• Why simply keeping trigger foods in the house does not automatically build trust
• How your beliefs about a food influence how in control you feel around it
• How to begin rebuilding trust with cookies, peanut butter, bread, chocolate, chips, ice cream or another triggering food

I also share client examples of women who are beginning to feel safer around foods they once ate frantically, secretly or straight from the package including peanut butter and bread.

You are not broken, and you are not the exception.

No matter how many times you’ve binged on a specific food, your brain can learn a new association with it. You can rebuild trust one experience, and one food at a time.

Inside my four-week program, Trust With Trigger Foods, I walk you through the process of rebuilding trust with one specific food.

You’ll learn how to:

• Choose the right food to begin with
• Reduce the fear and anxiety surrounding it
• Rewire the beliefs that make you feel out of control
• Understand when it is supportive to eat the food
• Create a calmer and safer eating experience
• Use the same process with other trigger foods in the future

The goal isn’t to force yourself to keep food in the house or allow yourself to eat it whenever you think about it.

The goal is to help your brain feel safe enough that you can enjoy the food without automatically spiralling into guilt, overeating or bingeing.

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