Since watching a video I did a while back about how I overcome my emotional eating triggers, a lot of people have asked me how I figured out what my triggers are.

See, for a long time, I had no idea what emotional eating triggers were. I didn’t even know what “emotional eating” was!

But looking back, knowing what I know now, I can now pinpoint exactly when I became an emotional eater.

While living in New York about 12 years ago, there was a period of time where I’d buy a pound of peanut M&Ms every night, and eat the whole thing while watching a movie in bed.

Eating that much sugar and that much food all at once caused this incredibly uncomfortable feeling in my stomach.

But as pleasant as it was, it felt better than the high levels of anxiety and loneliness I was experiencing at that time in my life.

Of course, the relief from my anxiety and loneliness was temporary.

But I still got into this cycle of using food to relieve anxiety, and for YEARS afterwards, whenever something brought me high levels of anxiety, I’d head to the fridge and binge eat.

Obviously I finally figured out my triggers. I remember how stunned I was the day I realized I even had triggers!

Since emotional eating is such a big problem for so many people, I decided to to get help creating an online course Code Red could offer to help my Rebels with their triggers.

I watched it before releasing it, and as I sat there and listened to the course, I remember thinking, “Holy crap. I do that!”

Identifying my triggers helped me create a plan to outsmart them, and man, what a relief it’s been to finally feel in control when I get triggered.

If you’d like more information about how I identified my triggers, what one of my biggest ones is, and how you can get help identifying your triggers, watch my video below!