Chaos and Food Cravings

Chaos and Food Cravings – Podcast Interview with Laura Folkes Calming the Chaos welcomes Laura Folkes, a Holistic Health Coach in Chicago. Laura helps clients around the world work transform their relationships with food. As a Holistic Health Coach, Laura helps clients identify and work through any areas where they feel stuck, unsupported or self-sabotaging, and helps them reach their goals with food and eating. The goal: In this podcast, Laura talks about her own journey of chaotic eating, and how she was able to experience a truce with food. Laura provides some tips, tools and techniques that will help you: 1. Identify and explore any areas where you feel “stuck” in your relationship with food 2. Assess for any areas of self-sabotage 3. Provide support as you move toward achieving your goals with food and eating 4. Help you continue to notice when you are eating in / out of alignment with your goals 1. Introduction to Laura • Your journey of chaotic eating – Back to age 12-13 and the “Diet program” • Laura says, “I went into a fog.. Sometimes I was eating in alignment with my goals, and sometimes I was not” • “I started exploring my own relationship with food and developed an interest in helping others heal in that area.” • I was “Super burnt out with Diets” 2. Chaos and food / eating • Cravings: When she was a child, she wasn’t aware of cravings. It was when she was an adult she became more aware: “Food can be a form of self-protection.” • There is usually something else going on that is causing overeating • High / Low Blood sugar can cause cravings • When “there is something wrong with me,” a craving began to eat • Physical / Emotional Cravings are both very real. • Possible Physical Factors behind “Cravings” • If you are craving something shortly after eating, and • You are feeling your energy is dipping • Hangry • Arriving at a meal ravenous • Possible Emotional Factors behind “Cravings: • Phantom Hunger • Emotionally craving something • Guilt and Shame around a food choi