​​How to Heal Your Hunger and End Emotional Eating with Tricia Nelson

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Emotional eating and obesity root deeper than what’s easily visible. But because it's always just about the food and weight, the solutions we come up with are typically only focused on the symptoms and not the deep-rooted causes. For those who battle food dependence, this becomes the point to stop and settle. In this episode of The Fit Mess, Tricia Nelson talks about her proven steps to battling emotional eating, the healthy balance between weight loss and body positivity, the purpose of the PEP Test, and the reason why most diets fail.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Can your attitude towards food be hereditary? Find out in this episode of The Fit Mess with Tricia Nelson!</span></p> <p><strong>Emotional Eating – Where Does it Come From?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked if emotional eating is a learned behavior or something inherited through DNA, Tricia answered it can be both. When Tricia's parents were still kids, they too had a propensity to gain weight fast. They were naturally chubby kids, and they had a really slow metabolism. Because of this, it also became effortless for Tricia to gain weight when she was growing up. As a result, at a very young age, Tricia was considered bigger than her contemporaries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tricia's early childhood is just one demonstration of how 60% of emotional eating correlates to heritability or inherited genetic markers, as per one article from VitaGene</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">This natural trait also gives evidence to her reaction to sweets and alcohol. When Tricia consumes sweets, it's very easy for her to overeat. When she indulges in alcohol, blacking out happens very quickly. If paired with the culture of soothing kids with food, emotional eating becomes a very tricky condition to do away with that can be passed down from one generation to the next.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find o