Cookies and Confidence: How to Stop Emotional Eating
Learn to balance the critical voice in your head, stop eating your feelings and start eating good food to discover a life and a body you love. We’ll talk about how to look at emotional eating so you can manage your weight and increase your mental health at the same time.
Episodes
In this episode of Cookies and Confidence, we explore the little and big ways we use food—and other small comforts—to buffer against our emotions. Whether it’s soda, snacks, or sweet treats after every meal, join us as we break down what emotional eating really is, why we do it, and how to better understand the thoughts and feelings behind it. Try out the concept of the “emotional math” to help you evaluate the short- and long-term...
In this episode of Cookies and Confidence, we talk about the timeless question: Why do we struggle to follow through on our health goals—even when we truly want to? Test out three useful tools to understand the internal conflict between the part of us that wants the cookie and the part that doesn’t. Learning how to build a kinder relationship with your past, present, and future self can shift you out of the eat–give up–beat up cycl...
In this episode of Cookies and Confidence, we explore the emotions and thoughts that come up after eating “the whole bag”—whether it’s chips, cookies, or candy. It's hard but slowing down, noticing what’s really going on inside, and connecting with all parts of you without judgment is worth it. This is not about food, but about the power of awareness, self-kindness, and understanding our deeper needs. If you’ve ever felt shame or r...
Listen in for an introduction on emotional eating and how it relates to sensory overwhelm and overstimulation. If you are using food to relax or cope with stress, learn how that may work for you short-term, but there's better options. I talk about how to know when you are in sensory overwhelm, understand nervous system resilience and tools for feeling better.
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Join me for episode 7 as we talk about solutions for emotional eating, especially when we overuse food to soothe, celebrate and relax. If you are feeling that nothing feels as good as food does after a long, stressful day, listen in to discover alternatives ways to think, feel and eat. Connect with me at vickizollingercoaching.com for more.
Join us for episode six where I talk about feeling fat, no matter my weight. Learn strategies for healing self-talk around mirrors, pictures and opinions of our own body. This is the stuff I wish I heard when I was a young girl and I need to hear again and again even as a adult.
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Join me for episode five to look at why we use food to cope and how it may serve us, but also how it may not. We talk about developing just five things for our weight maintenance goals and then sticking to that just 80% of the time. If you are done trying to control your weight with specialized diets and strict protocols, listen to this episode and discover your own answers for a life you love in any body size.
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Join me for episode 4 where we talk about emotional eating and weight loss: why weight loss is hard, how self-loathing is the least effective form of weight loss, and how we can balance overeating, overdesire, overhunger and overtrying to find a life and body we love.
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Stress and emotional eating are a duo like peanut butter and jelly. But understanding just five things can change our emotional eating behaviors. And when we increase our awareness of this, we have to increase our compassion too. Join us for episode three to learn more about your nervous system and how befriending it could be the missing piece to discovering a life and body you love. Find more, and the models I mention in this epis...
Join me for episode two to learn more about MINDfullness combined with BODYfullness and how each can help you notice and name your emotions. When we understand what we are feeling and how to allow emotion, we can discover a body and a life we love. We'll learn more about types of hunger and how to our use our thoughts to become better at emotional eating. Find out more at vickizollingercoaching.com.
Join me for episode one to learn all about emotional eating, how it's a problem and actually not a problem in our lives, and what we can do to feel in control about our food choices and stop negative self-talk from creating a mental battle between our brain, food and our bodies.
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