Episode 5: How Deprivation Leads to Emotional Eating.

Let's call diets what they are:  deprivation. 

They deprive your body of food and valuable nutrients.  And your body needs those!  That's why eventually, your body rebels against your diet, and often in a big way.  After days, weeks, or months of dieting, your body will eventually say, "Enough!  I want food and I want it now!"  And you find yourself eating to the point of feeling stuffed.  

But diets also deprive your emotional system of comfort.  And that system also rebels against dieting at some point. 

If you're an emotional eater, dieting takes away one of--if not your only--coping skill.  It's impossible for that to last.  You're going to turn back to food at some point, which makes complete and utter sense.  

On today's episode, we're talking about what happens when we deprive ourselves of food physically and emotionally.  Spoiler alert--it all goes back to food.  We're also talking about how diets deprive us socially, because yep, they do that too.   

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