A short excerpt from a YouTube video discussing emotional eating and its relationship to weight gain. The speaker emphasizes that emotional eating often goes unrecognized until weight increases, and argues against shame and self-criticism—advocating instead for curiosity and tuning in to underlying feelings as a constructive response.
And then all of a sudden, you got my attention, right? When it comes to, like, emotional eating, like, people are fine emotionally eating until they gain weight, and then they come and talk to me. It's like, now it's a problem. It wasn't a problem before when you weren't feeling your feelings and you were shoving all this food in your mouth. But now that you, you know, gain weight, now it's a problem. Right. And so we can use our weight as an opportunity to be like, okay, what's going on here? And tune in. But it's not the time to be shameful. Beat ourselves up, put ourselves down. We can't make good decisions from that place. Nothing good. We have to wait that out.
