Emotional eating is just one of the types of overeating we do. It is the eating we do in response to uncomfortable feelings. The food helps to comfort, distract and numb. Knowing how to manage feelings without turning to food is a crucial to stopping emotional eating and transforming the way we eat.

The Food & Feelings Toolkit guides you, step by step, to creating a set of strategies to manage the feelings that lead you to emotional eating. Specifically, we will be looking at how to deal with:

Sadness: lonely evenings in front of the TV, sad situations you can't control, feeling miserable and down in the dumps... so often soothed away with a tub of Ben & Jerry's or a box of truffles. It doesn't have to be that way.

Anger: all those times you eat because you are frustrated, annoyed, irritated. Find out how to stop stuffing your anger down with another mouthful and stay in control.

Fear: anxiety so often leads to the biscuit tin. We will show you how to deal with stress so that you don't have to eat it away.

Boredom: it's so easy to wile away those empty moments with a cup of tea and a packet of biscuits, to have a break...and a KitKat...to graze aimlessly because there's nothing much else to do. Discover how to have a full life without having a full stomach.

Hapiness: Do you overeat when you are excited, celebrating, as a treat, because it's a social thing? Learn the trick to feeling good without food.

Food & Feelings: A guide to managing feelings without food is the first in our Toolkit Series.

Each Beyond Chocolate Toolkit focuses on developing a specific skill which takes us one step closer to a healthy, balanced relationship with food and our body. They are practical and effective tools you can use to make dramatic changes to the way you eat.

Toolkits are based on a series of 4 live recordings of telephone Masterclasses, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the theme. The Food & Feelings Toolkit, for example, is based on Masterclasses dedicated to: Anger, Fear, Boredom & Lonliness and Sadness. The accompanying workbook provides more in depth information and contains worksheets and actions to experiment with so that you can be your own Guru.

We have made the Toolkits available both as a DIY version where you download the Masterclasses and the workbook and do it in your own way or as a 4 week e-course with 24/7 email support and weekly emails with encouragement and support.

Whichever version you go for, the Beyond Chocolate Tooklits are a great way of supporting yourself as you explore and experiment with the Beyond Chocolate Principles. We recommend signing up for a month's FREE membership trial at the same time as you start. As a member you will have full access to the forum and can participate in live Masterclasses. If there's a Toolkit you'd like to see, email us and let us know!