Berenice Mertens - Emotional Eating

Emotional Eating Disorder Coach - Berenice Mertens - Emotional Eating Coach

Some facts about Berenice:

Berenice, French, live in Panama. Founder of Berenice Mertens LLC©, certified yoga & meditation teacher, yoga therapist and eating disorder recovery coach.

2. 'ED recovery warrior' after decades of battling with anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, stress eating, over exercising and other mental and physical health issues.

3. Fully healed today and grateful to share my experience & knowledge about nutrition, health and mindfulness to help women optimize their mental, physical and emotional wellbeing.

4. From my own healing journey and working with my clients, I've studied and experimented many different diets, workouts and health approaches. I'm happy to save you time today and to share with you the key principles for overall good mental and physical health. To eat good and feel good.

2% of women don't love their bodies and search for help in diets. While 2/3 of people who go on diets put on weight when they stop. There is a lot of mental stress, calorie counting, shame when eating, not wanting to eat with other people, avoiding social gatherings.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

1. Simply, what you fuel your body with impacts your physical and mental health. Have you ever noticed how you felt after eating fast food from Mc Donald’s? Maybe sluggish? Bloated? Tired? Depressed.

2. In Ayurveda, ancient Indian medicine system, it is believed that each food has a unique quality.

-For example, salad is air / wind. Properties = light. But only salad all the time will make you feel ungrounded / stressed.

-Tomatoes are fire. Eating tomatoes all the time might results in gastric reflux, stomach inflammation, eczema, etc.

-Potatoes are earth. They are grounding, but in too much quantity they end up making you feel tired and lethargic.

"Food is the most abused anxiety drug fasting is the most forgotten cure exercise and is the most underused antidepressant."

3. That’s why it’s great to be mindful of what you eat and the effects of this food on you. I'd recommend you to have a diary in which you log your food (not the calories!), but most importantly how you feel after eating that food. How does it impact the digestion? How energetic do you feel after? Do you feel stressed? Anxious? Lethargic? (For ex. gluten in my case.)

DIETS DON’T WORK

1. stop dieting

2. reconnect and tune in your body

3. stop over exercising, high intensity training may lead to more stress on your body which leads to more weight gain.

Switch to things that are gentle and mindful.

4. learn the root cause of the stress

5. be kind, gentle and patient with yourself - be your best cheerleader

6. learn how to fulfill to satisfy your hunger