Showing posts with label Food Cravings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Cravings. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 November 2010

Emotional Eating & The Flat Stomach Solution

Is emotional eating stopping you from fitting into your skinny jeans and wearing your clothes with confidence?

I have a friend who is in the process of going through a divorce and she confessed to me that she’s been using food to help her cope with all the stress.

Emotional eating is a stressful fat builder that can lead to not only weight gain but also confidence loss.

I’ve helped my friend stop her stomach from bulging out over her bottoms in a short amount of time and right now she’s where she needs to be, healthy, gaining confidence by the day, feeling and looking hot…hot…HOT!

The major challenges in life can often make you turn to food and until you gain control of what goes on in your head, it will always be difficult to gain control of what goes into your mouth.

Sue was able to take control and turn a negative into a positive with support from me as a friend and as a personal trainer but also with a heavy measure of self-worth and a desire to be the woman she had left behind when she got married.

My friends passion for change and a new beginning pushed her to contact me and I happily obliged by giving her my complete transformation package The Flat Stomach Solution.

She got copies of "The Flat Stomach Solution" (85 pages of expert advice), "The Flat Stomach Solution Recipe Book" (49 pages of mouth-watering recipes) and the bonus books The Fastest Fat Burning Solution Known to Women, Advanced Abs Workout and The 10 Minute Bodyweight Workout.

Within just 8 weeks Sue had beaten her emotional eating blues and had turned her bulging belly into a svelte sexy stomach.

If you check out my own personal journey you’ll see that I was once just like my friend, although divorce wasn’t my emotional eating trigger, mine was just every day stressors like a bad day at work or an argument with a loved one.

But Sue and myself are both living proof that with a little desire, a bit of work and a lot of fun, you can actually make the changes you want and discover a different side of life you didn’t even realize was there for you!

You can never afford to stop taking care of yourself. “It’s not selfish, it’s sensible”!

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution


Sunday, 4 October 2009

Put an End to Your Food Cravings

A number of years ago I used to get food cravings for white bread, pizza, white pasta, cookies! Basically anything and everything that was a stodgy (refined) carbohydrate.

Once I had devoured them I felt happier and more content until the next craving which usually happened within 1-2 hours...

As the years have gone on and I have found the healthy way of life, I no longer have these cravings and I can tell you I feel SO much better that I’ve cut them out of my life completely, well almost completely. I’d be lying to you if I said that I didn’t enjoy a slice of pizza every now and then but I definitely don’t need it in my life like I did before.

Did I need it or was it just the way it made me feel?...

One of the main factors when you crave certain foods is the lack of serotonin. Serotonin is an essential hormone within the body, it elevates our mood and if it’s too low it can cause depression.

Studies have found that carbs are essential in the production and regulation of serotonin. And people who eat a high carb diet produce more serotonin.

So when you are craving certain carbs such as white bread or pasta you may not be craving the actual foods but the boost that the serotonin gives you. This happens a lot in the afternoon or early evening as you may need a pick me up and find yourself reaching for the nearest stodgy carb that is available.

Serotonin is made from the amino acid tryptophan, so what you need to do is to get your serotonin the natural way and not through the evil foods that are so readily available these days. Bananas, kiwi, tomato’s, avocados and turkey all have high levels of serotonin and you can easily fit them into your daily diets.

I know it’s not the easiest thing in the world to give up those cookies or pizza but when you get through to the other side just like I did, then your life will improve in so many ways. I promise!

Here’s to you and beating those nasty little cravings and the healthy life that’s just around the corner.


Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution


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