Many smart women struggle with their weight and many busy, successful professional women resort to food to cope with the stress, uncertainty, and other emotions that occur in a full, high-pressure life. Unfortunately, for many, these battles with food become vicious cycles. If you are a high-achiever—a woman who is successful in many areas of her life who finds herself stuck in these cycles—there is a way out.

Here are three tips to start breaking the yo-yo diet emotional eating cycle.

Emotional eating is a powerful force that can become a deeply ingrained, almost automatic response to certain feelings. Breaking free of emotional eating (and most overeating) means honoring the…

Food plans, calorie counting tools, and fat burning tricks don’t do you any good if you can’t or won’t stick with them.

Women do break free of overeating and emotional eating, they do achieve a size they love and maintain it, and they find out how to make food a much smaller part of their lives.

To take control of emotional eating, one key skill you can practice is indulging. Most women who really need to indulge more believe they ought to indulge less.

If you’re overwhelmed, overloaded, and overeating, learning how to make time for high quality self-care may be the missing piece. Here’s how to make it happen.

For many women, feelings of anger are some of the toughest to acknowledge and cope with effectively. Anger can be a major trigger for emotional eating.

There are so many good tips and tools and strategies that can help us live a fuller, more authentic and meaningful life. Tips that can lower our stress, help us lose weight, prevent overwhelm and…

Here’s a simple truth. If you were more direct, you’d struggle less with emotional eating. Emotional eating is about using food to deal with a feeling or a situation instead of addressing it directly. Really. It’s that simple.

Want to be effective with food? Want to know how to be effective with weight loss? It’s simple. Start working to be more directly effective in your life.

*“I know how to lose weight but I just can’t do it. I eat without even thinking about it. I’m a compulsive eater, an emotional eater—it feels like I eat to deal with everything. How do I…

Taking control of emotional eating and overeating is usually a process.

Figuring out what to do instead of emotional eating can be tricky, in part because food is so darn easy to turn to and…