Episode Details

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In this episode, Barbara and Elizabeth discuss:

• Breaking the patterns of habitual or emotional eating and the well-worn paths to the kitchen.
• 3-Step plan for breaking the patterns.
• Checking in to your emotions and recognizing how it is affecting your body.

Key Takeaways:

• Being aware of our actions is half the battle to changing those habits.
• Plan your meals for the following day the night before – when we plan, we are using our prefrontal cortex to make decisions. In the moment, unplanned, we use the emotional part of the brain. 
• Pay attention to the emotions that you are feeling – they are there for a reason.
• Self-care is for everyone, not just women.

“We are emotional beings and it is okay to feel this way right now.” —  Elizabeth Sherman

Transcription

Barbara:         Welcome to another great episode of Marketing Tips for Doctors. This is your host, Dr. Barbara Hales.

Today, we are fortunate to have Elizabeth Sherman. She is a life and weight loss coach who works with mostly women to lose weight and feel better through managing easy-to-do sustainable habits like diet, exercise, sleep and stress management.

Using certain cues including cravings, hunger, energy, stress and sleep, she helps folks design the right health program for their body and lifestyle and address the obstacles and barriers we encounter when trying to be consistent in our desired habits.

We can achieve optimal health which leads to better energy, focus, productivity, relationships and happiness in our lives. Elizabeth is a Chicago native but now lives in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. Due to the amazing advancements in technology, she meets with her clients online. She is a certified life coach, nutritionist, personal trainer and health coach. Welcome Elizabeth.

Elizabeth:      Thank you. It’s awesome to be here. Thanks for having me.

Barbara:         Well, you couldn’t have come at a better time because now that we are all in self-isolation and being sequestered, there is a well-worn path between wherever we are in the house and the refrigerator and back, and the kitchen cabinets and back. So, share with us how we could stop and break that because a lot of us with stress are eating out of boredom or due to high emotion level which we’re all on now. What is your advice about that?

Elizabeth:      Right. I mean, this is something that I’m just getting bombarded with. All of my clients are like, oh my gosh, I have to work at home now and all of a sudden, I’m just finding myself in the kitchen staring aimlessly into the pantry or the cupboards looking for something to eat and I don’t know what to do. So yeah, you’re not alone if that’s something that you are doing. And you know, this is actually something that even tho