50 min
Emotional Eating, YOU CAN PUT AN END TO IT with Andrea Montoya | BM 61 Bomb Mom
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Do you have a constant nagging voice in your head that makes food the enemy? Why is it important to savor all your meals? How can parents facilitate a healthy relationship to food with their children?
In this podcast episode, I speak with Andrea Montoya about putting an end to emotional eating.
Meet Andrea Montoya
Over the course of 6 years, Andrea earned her Masters in holistic nutrition, competed in fitness competitions, became a health coach, and worked as a personal trainer, hoping one of these avenues would be the solution to what seemed like an endless, vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting and binge eating.
However, it wasn’t until Andrea began working on the internal, and learning coping strategies and self-soothing tools for dealing with emotions that she finally achieved the freedom she had been seeking. Freedom from food, body, mind, and self. In addition to earning her body image and self-love coaching certification, Andrea has been working side-by-side with Tony Robbin’s personal trainer, Billy Beck III, which has taught her the science and evidence-based tools behind exercise and the psychology of nutrition.
She now has the privilege of using what she’s learned to coach amazing women through her Ditch the Scale Academy, helping them fully transform their lives at a deeper level by letting go of their past stories and beliefs and stepping into their power, unleashing their ultimate feminine potential.
Visit her website and connect on Facebook and Instagram.
In This Podcast
Summary
* Food is not the enemy: work with the feeling
* “I’m not ready to feel”
* Kids, parents, and relationships to food
* How to not repeat the cycle
Food is not the enemy: work with the feeling
It’s not about food … I always used to blamed food and said ‘oh food is the enemy, I need the willpower and I have to force’ … [but] this isn’t a willpower conversation, it’s about expanding our capacity to feel. (Andrea Montoya)
Most of us have not been taught how to deal with anxiety, stress, and difficult emotions in a healthy way.
When we experience these emotions we struggle to sit in them and deal with them. Instead, we choose to stuff them down and numb the sensation with food because it is an easy protection mechanism.
It’s more about how to we expand our capacity to feel, how do we learn how to feel through these emotions and how to process them … if I can expand it, sit in it and learn from it and [know that] ‘okay these emotions are just my body communicating to me … trying to tell me something.’ (Andrea Montoya)
Feeling overwhelmed, at your limit and anxious are ways in which our bodies communicate to us that we need to make some space and set boundaries.
When we sit with these feelings and do not numb them with food, we are able to truly understand what our bodies and minds are telling us, and we can therefore take meaningful action to make a beneficial change instead of further numbing ourselves with food and compounding the problem.
In this way, these feelings become a gift. They are important messengers that are trying to help us. When we look at them in this way, we can be grateful to hear them and be aware of them because they enable us to make changes and change our lives for the better.
Visit melissavogelfitness.com/course for the free email course.
Do you have a constant nagging voice in your head that makes food the enemy? Why is it important to savor all your meals? How can parents facilitate a healthy relationship to food with their children?
In this podcast episode, I speak with Andrea Montoya about putting an end to emotional eating.
Meet Andrea Montoya
Over the course of 6 years, Andrea earned her Masters in holistic nutrition, competed in fitness competitions, became a health coach, and worked as a personal trainer, hoping one of these avenues would be the solution to what seemed like an endless, vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting and binge eating.
However, it wasn’t until Andrea began working on the internal, and learning coping strategies and self-soothing tools for dealing with emotions that she finally achieved the freedom she had been seeking. Freedom from food, body, mind, and self. In addition to earning her body image and self-love coaching certification, Andrea has been working side-by-side with Tony Robbin’s personal trainer, Billy Beck III, which has taught her the science and evidence-based tools behind exercise and the psychology of nutrition.
She now has the privilege of using what she’s learned to coach amazing women through her Ditch the Scale Academy, helping them fully transform their lives at a deeper level by letting go of their past stories and beliefs and stepping into their power, unleashing their ultimate feminine potential.
Visit her website and connect on Facebook and Instagram.
In This Podcast
Summary
* Food is not the enemy: work with the feeling
* “I’m not ready to feel”
* Kids, parents, and relationships to food
* How to not repeat the cycle
Food is not the enemy: work with the feeling
It’s not about food … I always used to blamed food and said ‘oh food is the enemy, I need the willpower and I have to force’ … [but] this isn’t a willpower conversation, it’s about expanding our capacity to feel. (Andrea Montoya)
Most of us have not been taught how to deal with anxiety, stress, and difficult emotions in a healthy way.
When we experience these emotions we struggle to sit in them and deal with them. Instead, we choose to stuff them down and numb the sensation with food because it is an easy protection mechanism.
It’s more about how to we expand our capacity to feel, how do we learn how to feel through these emotions and how to process them … if I can expand it, sit in it and learn from it and [know that] ‘okay these emotions are just my body communicating to me … trying to tell me something.’ (Andrea Montoya)
Feeling overwhelmed, at your limit and anxious are ways in which our bodies communicate to us that we need to make some space and set boundaries.
When we sit with these feelings and do not numb them with food, we are able to truly understand what our bodies and minds are telling us, and we can therefore take meaningful action to make a beneficial change instead of further numbing ourselves with food and compounding the problem.
In this way, these feelings become a gift. They are important messengers that are trying to help us. When we look at them in this way, we can be grateful to hear them and be aware of them because they enable us to make changes and change our lives for the better.
50 min