by Lauren Grant | Mar 21, 2015 | Binge Eating, Compulsive Overeating
Are you tired of working hard to lose weight only to gain it back again?
Do you feel like you’ve reach a point in your life where you are giving up and giving in to every imaginable temptation when it comes to food?
Are you limiting yourself from participating in certain activities because you feel your body will make you feel uncomfortable?
Most of us have found ourselves feeling a strong loathing about our weight and our inability to lose those pounds. The frustration builds and our self-esteem plummets to a dismal abyss. We have all tried diets, exercise clubs, support groups, drugs and leaning about control. All this, and still we feel the face of failure. Perhaps it is time to become aligned with who you truly are, who you would like to be and learn what self-acceptance is all about. At the Hungry Heart you will discover a method that, step by step, teaches you to lose weight naturally and permanently.
Finally there is a program that assists you in breaking out of the diet/binge cycle and helps you lose those painful pounds. With the Hungry Heart you’ll learn to feel better about yourself, lose the insatiable appetite for food and come to peace with your body.
A Caring Approach to Out of Control Eating
The Hungry Heart is a place for healing your relationship with food so you can experience the exhilaration and passion of living every day FREE of compulsive eating.
Lauren Grant is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Nutritional Counselor. She will show you how to move past your preoccupation with eating and weight loss and move towards a more rewarding life.
As a former overeater, she battled for years with chronic weight fluctuations by starving and binging and exercising to excess. She knows first-hand how an obsession with food drains your energy and destroys the quality of your life.
She has maintained a success rate of many years and is glad that painful time is behind her. “I had tried it all. I contacted sponsors and friends for advice and guidance. This was understandable a very painful time in my life. Today I am proud to share that I’ve been free of compulsive overeating for over twenty years. I’m happy, healthy and not preoccupied with what I eat. Taking care of myself by eating healthy and exercising regularly is a natural way of life for me. Feeling my true feelings, dealing with the pains and pleasures of real life has allowed me to live free of compulsive overeating,” she says.
She created the Hungry Heart to help others move past that awful feeling of failure. Laruen earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is a graduate of both the Hypnosis Motivational Institute in Los Angeles and the American Academy of Nutrition. Her credentials are impressive.
Through hypnosis, clients are brought to a relaxed state of consciousness where they choose to see only what is relevant to their task, blocking out everything else. Hypnosis involves guided visualization to create suggestibility in your mind. This allows you to rid yourself of inhibitions, behaviors, or negative habits. It’s the quickest and easiest way to facilitate change. You will get positive results.
The Hungry Hearts well-balanced approach to LIFE-LONG recovery is successful because she integrates your subconscious thoughts and feeling with your conscious awareness. Add the proper nutrition and you get to enjoy optimum good health and quality of life.
by Lauren Grant | Mar 20, 2015 | Dieting, Emotional Overeating, Healthy Eating, Signs of Emotional Eating
Basic Weight Gaining Behaviors:
You may be surprised how they add up
3500 extra calories = 1 pound
Eating Behaviors
Nighttime Eating 5x a week
270 calories per snack time
Weekly calorie intake: 1350 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 70,200 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 20 pounds
Snacking w/television 5 hours a week
135 calories per snack
Weekly calorie intake: 680 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 35,360 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 10 pounds
Bingeing twice a week
1000-3000 calories per binge
Weekly calorie intake: 2-6000 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 104 to 312,000 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 30-90 pounds
Drinking 3 Beers once a week
146 calories per beer
Weekly calorie intake: 438 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 22,726 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 6.5 pounds
Snacking on potato chips 5x week
150 calories per serving
Weekly calorie intake: 750 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 39000 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 11 pounds
Eating a large bagel 3x a week
323 calories
Weekly calorie intake: 969 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 50,388 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 14 pounds
Habitual Overeating Daily
380 calories
Weekly calorie intake: 2600 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 138,320 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 40 pounds
Eating second Helpings 3x a week
200 calories
Weekly calorie intake: 600 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 31,200 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 9 pounds
Drinking 1 Glass of Wine 5x a week
100 calories a glass
Weekly calorie intake: 500 extra calories
Annual calorie intake: 26,000 extra calories
Potential annual weight gain: 8 pounds
Calories Add Weight: Subtle Daily Gains
Take a look at your habitual behaviors and see how it’s affecting your weight. What would you be willing to do differently? It’s amazing how making one change could make such a significant difference. Instead of drinking a glass of wine in the evening could you make yourself some herbal tea? If you are having trouble letting go of some of these sabotaging behaviors and would like some tools and tips on how to make lifestyle changes when it comes to food, click here to gain access to our proven program on how to change your relationship with food once and for all.
by Lauren Grant | Mar 19, 2015 | Binge Eating, Dieting, Emotional Overeating
Many of us, it seems have gone to war with our own bodies and minds by constantly putting ourselves through a never ending cycle of fad diets; dropping weight, then under stress or facing any of life’s many challenges, we “fall off the wagon” and binge, gaining back the weight and more. We may or may not be overweight or have an actual “eating disorder” but we just don’t seem to make healthy choices at times that make the difference between successful change and dismal failure and guilt.
When our expectations don’t meet our reality in life, our subconscious minds send us directly to the food. The food provides a temporary distraction from the discomforts of our lives. Food becomes a substitute for self-nurturing or self-caring behavior, a reward for a job well done, or a way to relieve stress, boredom and anxiety. Our subconscious mind attempts to meet our emotional needs.
We try to get a hold of the situation, but the harder we try, the more desperate we feel. Food becomes an overwhelming thought. One week we’re eating everything in sight, and the next week, we’re starving ourselves to lose the extra pounds we just gained. We then harshly judge the lack of control we have over food and obsess about what we will or will not eat next. We are right back to the problem with our physical body and unmet emotional needs. This yo-yo dieting destroys our self-esteem, quality of life, and takes a toll on our body.
End The Battle With Out Of Control Eating!
The first step to break out of this vicious cycle is to learn how to become our own best friend. As long as we need food as a tool to deal with emotional issues in our life, it doesn’t matter what plan or program we are on, we will eventually return to the food because we need it. Dieting has disconnected us from our natural ability to know what our body needs, fostering our unhealthy relationship with food.
Let go of the self-sabotage and negative internal dialogue. Tackle the root issues that established your relationship with food long ago by retraining your mind to accept who you are without judgment or criticism. You can move past your preoccupation with eating and weight loss and move towards a more rewarding satisfying life. You can enjoy the eating the foods you love without feeling guilty or gaining eight.
Give yourself the same love and attention that you give those you care about. Take time for yourself, listen to what your needs are and meet them. Put yourself first on your priority list. As hard as they may sound at first, if we don’t take care of ourselves, we won’t have the resources necessary to take care of all the other aspects of our lives and the overeating will continue.
There is no benefit to eating and then feeling guilty because if will only lead to further overeating. So if you choose to eat something enjoy it and let it go! Most importantly, treat yourself with love and respect to reach a place of inner peace so you can lose those painful pounds naturally and permanently. If you have any questions on how to take the steps to break out of this cycle, you can call the Hungry Heart toll free 877-HUNGRY-7 (877-486-4797) or go to our website thehungryheart.org for free tool and tips on how to get started.
by Lauren Grant | Mar 18, 2015 | Binge Eating, Compulsive Overeating, Emotional Overeating
I first realized I had a problem with food at about the age of eleven. My parents divorced when I was three. The yo yoing between families put me under a tremendous amount of stress. I found myself eating more when I would go to my dad’s house. The environment there was unwelcoming to say the least. I would hide food, sneak food and overeat when I was there. I found that when I came home to my mom’s house my problem would continue. I taught myself to self-love with the food. It was my entertainment, my friend and my parent. As an adolescent I struggled with my weight. I was about ten to twenty pounds more than my friends. Those extra pounds made me want to diet. My mom was a self-confessed calorie counter and helped me to do the math on all my food. I worked out and counted calories. I would lose some weight, but of course I would gain it back. I tried the cabbage soup diet (yuck). The hotdog and grapefruit diet, lean cuisine, slim fast, etc. All those worked short term with a result of a few extra pounds on top of the original weight I wanted to lose.
Emotional Overeating: My Road to Weight Loss Sanity
Finally I felt it was time for some professional help. I tried Jenny Craig and I lost twenty pounds. The minute I went off the terrible frozen food, I gained the weight back. Then I tried Weight Watchers (it had worked for my friends), same end result. I felt like a complete failure. In turn my eating became more out of control. I decided I wanted to get off this roller-coaster of self-destruction. One day I was reading Orange Coast Magazine and saw an ad for feeding the Hungry Heart. I thought what the heck. I’ll give it a shot. I have to say I was skeptical even though my mother had hypnotized me for a sleeping problem as a child. It sounded scary to have someone I didn’t know or trust yet do it. When I finished the first session, I felt energized and hopeful that I could overcome my fears of trying another way of dealing with my problems. After a few sessions I became aware of how and when I eat. I started asking myself “are you really hungry?” or “are you upset, frustrated or sad?’ This was huge for me! I knew I ate for those reasons but I chose to ignore it. I chose to ignore my own feelings like I didn’t have time for them. My sessions with Lauren were very emotional. I wasn’t use to talking about my fear of losing weight. Through time, I realized that by confronting my fears, taking time to understand and feel my feelings I can make a lifelong change in the way I approach food. I’m not at my idea body weight yet, but I feel my mind is healthier than ever. Lauren taught me to make healthy food choices and freed me from the destructive cycle of binge eating. She taught me to have confidence in myself no matter what the scale says. The weight loss was just an extra perk, gaining my sanity was the real gift.
by Lauren Grant | Feb 21, 2015 | Healthy Eating
Who doesn’t love to eat out at a nice restaurant? Here are a few super-practical tips for eating out sensibly– without the guilt and disappointment of emotional eating. Because that’s one date you don’t need to drag along!
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