In this article from Eat This, Healthy Minds Trainer & Program Specialist, Stephanie Wagner, NBC-HWC, provides her expertise.

In this article, several experts offer guidance on why we turn to the comfort of food when suffering from stress, and how to avoid it.
Healthy Minds Innovations Trainer & Program Specialist, Stephanie Wagner, NBC-HWC, is quoted several times throughout the article. Here’s a look:
“Recognize how badly you want to feel a sense of ease and how unpleasant stress feels in the body. When you want to stress eat, offer yourself a moment of self-compassion by reciting a couple of compassionate phrases in your mind, like ‘May I have ease. May I be free from stress’. Do this for a few moments,”
Stephanie Wagner