How Do Emotions Influence Body Composition?
Most people don’t really struggle with the core understandings of nutrition:
🔹Generally eat less
🔹Choose quality food choices
🔹Be consistent with choices
🔹More vegetables are good
🔹Eat protein, healthy fats and fiber
🔹Limit processed foods & take out
🔹Cook your own food
In our experience, people get it. These are things we don’t really need to preach about.
So why do we struggle to implement this knowledge into actionable behaviours?
It really comes down to our emotional capacities and how we identify with our experiences. How we feel can impact our self-concept, which can influence our behaviours. Emotions can overwhelm us at times and knowledge of nutrition sadly becomes terribly insufficient.
We need to learn how to understand ourselves better. Learn to take on new perspectives and understand how our emotions influence our behaviours.
Regulating emotions and stress management are far more important when it comes to making good food choices.
Expressing yourself, spending some quiet alone time, and journaling are all quality ways to make progress in this regard. If you’re really struggling, it’s never a bad idea to hire a coach that will have your back.
Always remember, motion is lotion. We encourage you to Move Well, Live Well™.
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