Could Emotional Eating And Childhood Traumas Be Causing The Excess Weight That You're Carrying

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Matty Lansdown is an in-demand Nutritionist, Scientist, International Speaker, Emotional Eating Coach, & Podcast Host who uses his knowledge and expertise in psychology and nutrition to facilitate transformational health stories by helping people answer the question “why cant I just eat healthy?”.

Through his programs Matty supports women to lose weight, get their energy back, boost their sex drive, get their confidence back & be kinder to themselves.

Matty also hosts a podcast called How To Not Get Sick and Die which is one of Australia’s favorite health and wellness podcasts.

02:30 Matty’s Background?

His mom was a nurse, he spent a lot of time in hospitals with his mom
Became a molecular biologist and worked with nutritional epigenetics and elite athletes
Got into cancer research, started learning about eastern medicine
Realized that being overweight was a challenge which led to other health conditions
He realized that people knew what to do but they didn’t usually do it
He started working with mindset and people’s relationship with food

08:30 Why Do People Not Change Their Behavior For Health

People know what to do but they don’t do it
Typically people use food or alcohol to change their emotional state
Sugar, salt, alcohol gives you a hormonal and neurotransmitter experience – gives you a dopamine hit
People use food as an emotional need to fill gaps
Lack of skills to manage emotions often leads to overeating

15:30 What Drives The Emotional Need To Eat More?

Pizza or ice-cream fixes the bad day people might have had at work
Also, a birthday party can go the other way
People want to feel love and connection

20:20 What Needs To Get Fixed For People To Overcome The Unhealthy Patterns?

Instead of adding more stuff like healthy foods, meditation, healthy practices
Matty prefers to remove a few things
Reflect on your life and why you eat the foods and the way that you do
Be curious about your habits
This will give you deeper insights
Otherwise only a scary diagnosis or family death will give you the impetus to change

26:00 What Role Does Trauma Play With Eating Habits?

There are two schools of thought
Food consumption is a trauma response: in childhood food was scarce
Some people get hooked on sugar right after a traumatic event
For other folks, they can just be addicted to sugars

28:45 Why Can People Not Stick To A Diet?

People never dealt with their emotional trauma and relationship to food, so the eating continues.
Some people feel so different after massive weight loss that they want to go back to who they were

34:15 What’s The Ideal Way With To Start Behavioral Change With Food?

Finding a reason and motivation to change is important
Matty believes in one tweak a week – make changes slowly so they stick

37:00 Why Does Willpower Not Last Long Term?

It takes you too far outside your comfort zone
The new health habits get incorporated into the identity – this is how it works best

38:50 How You Can Work With Matty?

Matty wants his clients to join a community that has the same goals.
The community helps you overcome challenges with family or friends not supporting you
Once a week, they do zoom calls
People are encouraged to share what’s going wrong with their diet so they can get support and heal