Today is the last day to register for Why Am I Eating This Now? Live: Align Your Life and Eating (WAIETN). Please note I’m not sure if I will run WAIETN next September.
I love WAIETN. It’s the fun entry point into psychological flexibility, which feels like “Oh my GODDESS! I have so much more control over my life than I realized! And I can break free from being all-or-nothing.” Yet after being in business for more than 17 years, I have learned to honor my capacity based on applying psychological flexibility and I’m unsure WAIETN will run again next September.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Hence the popularity of the Glucose Goddess (GG) to get people to care about their blood sugar.
If you haven’t heard of the GG – Jessie Inchauspé, a French biochemist – she shares visual graphs on social media of what her food choices do to her glucose/blood-sugar levels.
While your glucose graph will be different based on your sex, the foods that work best for you, hormonal phase, health condition, sleep, and stress (#nuance, #context), it’s a compelling starting point for why blood-sugar matters.
A while back, she shared this visual about what stress did to her blood-sugar:
Stress is hard to measure and so it’s easy to brush aside.
Yet this graphic reveals the critical nature of stress management. Especially considering stable blood-sugar is a cornerstone health process that affects most every health function from cravings to cellular repair.
I’m assuming the GG has her blood-sugar well managed since this is her jam. And she’s only 31.
She’ll have better blood sugar control than someone like me who has healthy blood-sugar management, yet I’m 44 and menopausal. My blood sugar would spike higher from stress because of the loss of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone that comes with menopause.
Consistent glucose spikes from stress and emotional eating result in several immediate issues: more hunger, cravings, and fat storage (often felt like stubborn weight loss).
These glucose spikes also cause a cortisol increase. Glucose spikes and crashes are a danger warning to your body so cortisol and glucose are in a continual feedback loop.
Chronically higher cortisol from stress leads to sleep issues, visceral fat accumulation (this is the bad, inflammatory fat that accumulates around your organs), and needing more sugar and salt to feel satisfied as high cortisol desensitizes you to these flavors.
You usually have more physical resilience to stress when you are younger. But as you age, your physical resilience declines. Thus, stress and its physical effects become one lever you can pull to age well.
My own insomnia these past few years opened me up to the importance of the physical effects of stress, especially for women over 40 and the hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause.
I used the WAIETN process to identify and work through why I kept overriding my tired trigger with overworking. Because this increased my cortisol and 2-5 am wake-ups.
It was eye-opening to see how much health and vitality were on the other side of the rigid belief attached to my tired trigger! My sleep improved, my hunger decreased (I had become hungry at 3 pm with my sleep issues) and I was enjoying my life! I also recovered better from work-outs, which becomes more challenging as you age.
WAIETN: Align Your Life and Eating is focused on your stress and the emotional aspect of food.
And, you will experience physical results. You’ll have smaller and less blood sugar spikes and cortisol from having a better handle on your stress. And, less turning to the foods that spike your blood sugar and cortisol. If you use a continuous glucose monitor or just imagine your glucose graph, it will be much more even.
This means you’ll be pulling one of the major emotional and physical levers on less hunger, cravings, better sleep, physical recovery, and better body composition.
Because the physical and emotional are always in a feedback loop. Even if our culture cannot hold the complexity of this feedback loop.
Today is the last day for WAIETN registration. If you’re ready to take a load of stress and food off your plate, I hope you’ll join us.
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Here’s more on who this program is for, how we’ll break the cycle, client results, and success stories. And, here’s your last chance to watch the free sneak peek of How to Stop Stress Eating workshop.
Be Well,
“Having a long history of trying Weight Watchers, I knew that there was an emotional piece behind my eating choices that I had to figure out. Why Am I Eating This Now? gave me a clear, exact process and tools to understand why I turn to food and how to change this. I’m making better choices aligned with my body and the life I want to live. I wish I could bottle this feeling up and give it to everyone.” – Shelley
“I enrolled after really feeling like I had HAD ENOUGH with my mindless and emotional eating. It wasn’t in alignment with my health goals, yet I couldn’t stop it! In a way, betting the time and money on the course was like betting on myself: could I really do this? I am far from there yet, but I have reached a place of curiosity and compassion with my feelings and my story, so I am on my way. The most challenging part was getting momentum. This is uncomfortable work at times, but working through our stories is the only way to change them, and our responses to them.” – Alison
“Ali has the rare gift of clarity. She asks questions that help me think more clearly. She has the gift of putting her finger right on the essence of whatever the issue is—especially where nutrition meets a jumble of old feelings and beliefs and information—so I can make something useful out of it. And she has the gift of fearless empathy, of honoring my choices but always helping me make space for new possibilities.” – Krasna
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