284: The Truth Behind Emotional Eating

About this episode

The episode discusses emotional eating and coping strategies with insights from a behavioural medicine expert.

Did you know that positive emotions such as excitement and celebration can trigger overeating as well as negative emotions like stress and sadness? Anna and Clare talk about emotional eating and explore coping strategies - as suggested by 3,000 Slimming World members! Today's they're joined by Gemma Traviss-Turner, an associate professor of behavioural medicine from the University of Leeds with some brand new research freshly presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity. We hope you’ve really enjoyed this episode and if you’d love to find out more about joining Slimming World head to www.slimmingworld.co.uk to search for your nearest group or discover more about our digital-only service. Slimming World Podcast is presented by Clare Savory and Anna Mangan. Produced by ASFB Productions. Sponsored by Slimming World. Please note: The info we share is based on our personal weight loss experiences.

People in this episode

Hosts: Anna Mangan, Clare Savory

Guest: Gemma Traviss-Turner

Topics covered

• emotional eating
• coping strategies
• behavioural medicine
• weight loss
• nutrition

Keywords

• emotional eating
• overeating
• stress
• celebration
• Slimming World
• behavioural medicine
• European Congress on Obesity

Sponsors

Slimming World

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Leeds

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