WHY WE EAT - Combating Food Cravings

Dietary Technician/Author, Beth Castle from Calgary has set out to help people all over Alberta with the mental part of food in her book/audios and seminars. As North American’s we have tripled the statistics to 67% of the population are overweight or obese since 2006.

Solutions to WHY WE EAT

Comments from a recent talk –“It was a very interesting, very informative, fun and inspiring evening for me. I learned a great deal. I really appreciate your approach – you are kind in sharing your information, knowledge, experiences and I appreciate and admire that you truly “care” about people – it really shows in your presentation and words.”

 

Combating Food Cravings

Having a craving and being hungry are very different. A craving is that nagging feeling of wanting a certain food item or a particular taste in your mouth. Sometimes our imagination will work overtime to focus on that food and then we can end up desiring that food all day!

 

Cravings for food can emerge at anytime. Cravings are not always negative—they can signal our bodies’ deficiencies in certain minerals, vitamins, or enzymes; they may be related to our nutritional needs, or they may alert us to certain hormonal imbalances, adrenal fatigue, or even insulin resistance.

 

All food cravings, however, can become a negative in our overall health when we respond inappropriately to them. The result is that we damage our metabolism, increase weight gain, and endanger our health. You should consult a qualified nutritionist and/or your doctor if you have concerns about cravings and the effect they have on your metabolism.

 

Here are some strategies for coping with and eliminating common cravings. There are two important ideas about cravings. First, they have nothing to do with will power. Secondly, we need to pay attention to what foods we crave and how we respond to them. Here are some strategies to help you recognize and deal with food cravings:

 

Foods that have a strong flavor may cause you to crave another food. For example, tomato sauce, cream sauce, or spicy foods containing garlic may cause you to crave a sweet food. This is because your palate and tongue are full of taste receptors; the strong flavored food may have a lingering taste and you need to cleanse your palate to get over it. Eating grapes, apples, watermelon, pineapple and cucumber can help to do this. Other non-food alternatives are to try a tongue scraper to get rid of the taste, or brush your teeth or chew some gum. You will be quite surprised by the results. Beth can help when it comes to that potato chip craving as well!

 

Beth’s goal is to lessen the pain associated with food. More information on this and other topics are at www.bethcastle.com in “Stop Emotional Eating, Fix Food Cravings, Find your Metabolism and More” Audio Guide.

A Zero Fat Gift of Love and Melatonin!!

A Zero Fat Gift of Love and Melatonin that Can Benefit a Doggie that is less Fortunate! 

Part of Proceeds of the Book Puchased Through Beth Castle go to Vet Bills for Doggies!

Wow, a great valentines gift!! A gift of love and laugher and healthy melatonin! Zero Fat!! and Packed Full of Life! Part of the proceeds to benefit a less fortunate doggie! let me know if you would like to make a difference!

Hey, I have spent the past 6 months living at the emergency Vet with all three of my dogs. I can't imagine not having vet insurance.

My great idea is to have part of the proceeds of this book sale I sell go to a dog vet bills that their family cannot... afford to treat them. Our past 6 months was about $9500 of which $3000 was not covered. I can't imagine having to make that decision that I cannot bare. I had to make a decision when I was 16 and it has affected me to this day and altered my life. Help give a gift of love and laughter and help a doggie! Charmaine Hammond and I are totally going over the fine details! email or call me at ecastle@shaw.ca or 403-680-7200 so we can get this started!!

Get the kids involved. We need to change from too many sweets anyway. Make a difference! Thank you for all of your help should you choose. Doggie Licks!

I can't wait for the Movie to follow. It will be amazing.

Free EGG Nutrition Presentation

Free Egg Presentations for your office or school!
Information about...

• laying barn - pasture to plate
• different hens and why?
• different eggs why?
• - brown
• - white
• - omega 3
• - omega pro
• - vegetarian
• - free run
• - free range
• - organic
• - jumbo
• - how does a double yolk happen?
• what about 1975 cholesterol issue?
• what about the study from western university this past summer?
• nutrition facts
• what is that air cell used for anyway?
• what is that ropey white thing attached to my yolk - yuk - an umbilical cord?
• tell me about blood spots
• and so much more!!

call me at 403-680-7200 or email at ecastle@shaw.ca for more info or to book a free class/seminar!

Redneck Nutrition

Check out Beth's New Website for Eating Healthy on the Go for Remote Oilfield Workers.
www.rednecknutrition.com seminars & support

• convenience store eating
• dining out
• fast food
• metabolism
• understanding how food works for you
• diner eating
• energy drinks - good ones
• protein powders - unprocessed ones
• how to stay on track when in 21 days and out a bunch too.
• tips on how to pack a kit for success at Hotels and fast food & 7-11 and Mac's stores!

email me for more about how I can help your company. ecastle@shaw.ca

Award Winning E Book in NYC for Women's Issues!

Award Winning E Book in NYC for Women's Issues! Beth has been given an award for her E Book in NYC!

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Say goodbye to emotional eating

Say goodbye to emotional eating

Say goodbye to emotional eating
Local author offers tips to help you replace food with more positive comforts
By Theresa Tayler, Calgary HeraldJanuary 25, 2012 8:06 PM
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Author and public speaker Beth Castle in her kitchen in Calgary on January 19, 2011.
Photograph by: Christina Ryan, Calgary Herald
If you’ve ever found yourself arriving home after a hard day’s work and heading straight for the potato chips and vino instead of the treadmill, well, you’re not alone.
We’ve all been there; stress can cause the best of us to let our guard down and go diving into that carton of chocolate-chunk cookie-dough ice cream at warp speed.
There are numerous reasons why people turn to emotional eating: depression, undealt-with childhood wounds, life changes and other traumatic events are just the tip of the iceberg.
“It’s really different for everyone. Everyone’s issues are complex and unique, but the result of using food to cope is the common denominator for emotional eaters,” says Beth Castle, author of Stop Emotional Eating, Fix Food Cravings, Find Your Metabolism and More.
Castle, a dietary technician and public speaker, literally wrote the book on conquering emotional eating.
The pages serve as an interactive manual for anyone who wants to understand the reasons behind why they might eat emotionally, and how they can begin to stop.
It was exactly the kind of read that Denise Szekrenyes was looking for.
Szekrenyes, 46, says she has been dealing with “food issues” since she was a young adult.
“I struggled with anorexia as a teen, but I had never really admitted it to myself until I went to see Beth speak,” says Szekrenyes, who attended one of Castle’s speaking engagements just over a year ago.
Throughout most of her adult life, Szekrenyes says, she let food control issues consume her. While she was underweight in her early 20s, by her 30s she had put on extra pounds.
Szekrenyes found herself in an emotionally abusive relationship, and she began to seek solace in food.
Now happily remarried, Szekrenyes says she has a new outlook on life. She lost some of the extra pounds but says she still needed some help addressing the emotional issues behind her food cravings and control issues.
Castle’s no nonsense yet empathetic advice and theories on emotional eating struck the right note.
“She understands the dysfunction. It’s not about a diet, it’s about addressing the mental issues that are behind the addiction. Her ideas are centred around dealing with those issues and replacing the bad mental inner talk with more positive thoughts,” Szekrenyes says.
Castle’s book, which also comes as an e-book and an audio guidebook, gives readers a step-by-step process to identify the reasons why they overeat.
Readers can make notes, journal and work through those issues as they read. It’s not a diet, but Castle does give readers the basics regarding healthy eating and making nutritious choices.
She says the trick to conquering emotional eating issues lies in identifying what you’re feeling when you have a craving, and where that emotion comes from.
“This is not a quick fix, and people sometimes want a quick fix,” Castle says.
“Eventually, people realize that diets alone can leave them on a roller-coaster ride. You’re either on a diet or off a diet. Once people get to the point where they realize a quick fix doesn’t work, they begin looking for long term answers and that’s where dealing with the emotional issues behind why they overeat becomes important.”
Castle worked as a food counsellor with Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers in Calgary for many years before writing her book. She saw first-hand the complexities behind most people’s weight issues and she says it was her clients that inspired her to write her book.
Castle says there are no fast rules as to how Stop Emotional Eating should be read or followed — the book can be used alone or in conjunction with another weight-loss plan or diet.
“I jump around in the book and through the exercises quite a bit,” says Szekrenyes.
“It’s a continual process. I’ll read a chapter and think about it for a while, sometimes for weeks or months. Then I’ll go back to it later when I’m ready.”
Castle’s process focuses on replacing emotional eating with positive activities and rewards.
“If food is a reward, or something you’re using to comfort yourself, then it can be helpful to find a different activity or thing to do instead of eat when you first feel that craving. For me, it’s to have a cuddle with my dogs,” Castle explains.
“It sounds simple, but it stops you from taking that first bite and forces you to do something else instead, something positive. You don’t have to run a marathon — even taking a quick walk around the block can help to get your mind off the food and get you doing something positive.”
Castle says she encourages people to take things one day at a time.
“People get stuck when they overdo it, or when they punish themselves for slipping up. That’s something I address in the book as well. I have chocolate, sometimes I feel guilty. That’s life,” she says.
“If you beat yourself up for having a couple cookies for your snack, then you’re going to fall back into the trend of punishing yourself and indulging in negative self talk. You have to learn to forgive yourself and move on.”
For more information on Beth Castle’s book Stop Emotional Eating, $47, and to find out about her speaking engagements, visit o2mask.com.
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