Hi Nastja,

Here is your detailed onboarding form audit. Below, you’ll find an overview of your symptoms, the underlying issues, and how we will address them over the next four weeks.

Please know that while we can achieve a lot in four weeks, full healing may take more time. I've designed the weekly challenges and action plans so that you can continue or repeat them on your own after our time together ends.

So just so you know, that there is no pressure. We go deep, and take it step by step to achieve true and lasting change!

Starting Point Overview

Your primary goal of stopping the chocolate and ice cream obsession can definitely be achieved over the next four weeks.

After reviewing your form, I noticed three key factors contributing to your current food obsessions.

First, you're experiencing some degree of hunger and fullness confusion likely stemming from intermittent fasting or possibly post-pandemic weight loss efforts. Although you’re no longer restricting to loose weight, the confusion can make it harder for you to fully understand and honor your hunger and fullness cues. In week 1, our focus will be on bringing you closer to intuitive eating to build confidence in those signals and reduce stress.

This will help us address the other two focus areas over the upcoming month: emotional and habitual eating. Stress seems to drive a significant urge to eat habitually. While body disconnection is a major driver for many people, in your case, it's more about the habit of binge eating. This is good news—we won’t be starting from scratch, so your progress will be even more significant.

Our approach will be to help you fully understand your body’s language so that you can listen to it, understand its needs regarding hunger and fullness, and change your reactions to emotional triggers, ultimately overcoming habitual eating.

Main Symptoms

1..Hunger & Fullness Confusion: It’s hard for you to confidently recpect yur hunger and fullness from within. Meaning, eating times, like dinner (the planned recipe) decides whether you do listen to your hunger in the moment and have a snack or not. this isn’t a major thing anymore, you are very confident in your appetite, so reconnecting to your hunger in order to honor it will come easy over the upcoming 4 weeks.

2..Emotional Triggers: You associate emotional distress, such as feeling overwhelmed or stressed, with food as a quick source of comfort. This emotional link is the  main driver contributing to the binge eating, particularly during times of stress or boredom.

3. Habitual Patterns: You’ve developed a habit of binge eating, especially at night when you're alone. This seems to act as a coping mechanism, even though you generally have a positive relationship with food.

4. Loss of Control/Binge Eating: Binge eating for you seems to be a form of emotional release, almost like a fun or comforting activity compared to your everyday life. It acts as a way for you to relax and let go of control, especially in emotional situations.

Real Problem (Root Causes)

1. Body Disconnection Leftovers: The problem is that you tend to unintentionally ignore your hunger cues. You may feel physical hunger but think it’s not the right time to eat, so you push it off until it seems more appropriate. While this is totally understandable with a family, to overcome this, you need to prioritize your body’s cues.

   Solution: We will undo the body disconnection by learning to honor your hunger cues so that cravings and physical hunger don’t build up, leading to overeating later. We'll achieve this by practicing how to recognize and respond to your hunger with appropriate snacks or smaller portions to bridge the gap until your next meal. This approach ensures you stay in tune with your body’s needs, preventing the urge to overeat.

2. Emotional Triggers: The real problem is that you've created a false solution in your mind for dealing with stress or other emotional moments. This can happen with things like smoking, shopping, or gambling. For you, it's food. You use chocolate and ice cream to cope with your emotions. Your brain literally believes that eating large amounts of chocolate is the solution for you to relax.

   Solution: We will do two things: first, we’ll find different ways for you to relax... (continued in solution below)

3. Habitual/Binge Eating: The real problem is a false habitual solution wired into your brain. You’ve developed a habit of using food to relieve stress. This habit has created a strong neural pathway in your brain through repeated behavior. So, whenever you experience a particular emotion or situation (the trigger), your brain automatically believes that the solution to the problem (stress) is food—a false solution.

   Solution: More importantly, we’ll work on changing your reaction to those emotions. We’ll erase the false solution, by breaking the eating habit to remove the urges, so that soon you’ll be able to experience those feelings or relax without the urge to eat.

Weekly Overview

We are going to tackle the real problems step by step. Starting with weekly challenges and action plans, we will focus on each symptom in-depth, week by week, so that each following real problem will be easier for you to solve.

Week 1: Body Reconnection (hunger, appetite + fullness)

Week 2: Body Reconnection (fullness) + Emotional Eating

Week 3: Emotional + Habitual Eating

Week 4: Habitual Eating