Brianna shares her story of emotional eating, how it affected her and how she managed to combat it.

She shares her tips for avoiding emotional eating as well as how to combat it in the moment.

How To Combat Emotional Eating-Interview with Brianna Wilkerson, Founder of Made Well 345

Are you struggling with emotional eating especially during holidays?

Emotional eating can affect your overall health and well-being.  

Emotional eating has hidden roots to be addressed but it’s very possible to combat It.

 Transcript of Steps to Combat Emotional Eating With Brianna Wilkerson

 Hello and welcome to fit and fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek.

Emotional Eating, a Timely Topic As Holiday Season Is Approaching.

 I cannot believe it is nearly Christmas. How has this happened? Although 2020 has been an extraordinary year. I can't quite believe that we're nearly at the end of it. So I just thought It would be a good idea to just have our last podcast on ...

I hear it all the time. "I'm too busy to exercise!" or "I'm too busy to eat healthy foods!"

Or "I'm too busy to find time for myself!"

How do you create healthy habits that you can incorporate into your busy life?

So that you can feel amazing and healthy.

Want to chat to Dr Orlena? Email [email protected]

Dr Orlena's Magic Likes and Dislikes Exercise

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could dial down your cravings for certain foods?

Or increase your like for healthy foods? Wouldn't that make healthy eating so much easier?

Well you can! In just 30 minutes.

Alea didn't like blueberries until she did the Magic Likes exercise. She was eating them and enjoying them by the end of the call!

Tory stopped eating pretzels after she did the exercise.

Find out more about Dr Orlena's Magic Likes and Dislikes Exercise.

(Psst... if you sign up for the "Overeating quiz" you can get a huge discount!)

Written By Dr Orlena 

Dr Orlena Kerek (MBChB from the University of Bristol, UK)...

It's easy to say your health is your top priority. But what do your actions say?

How much time and energy do you spend looking after your health and the health of your family?

You set priorities and make choices in terms of your health and wellness but oftentimes you spend your time, money and energy on other things. Mostly, things that are easier but provide no value to your body.

In this episode, You will learn:

• How to set priorities.
• How to stay focused on your priorities.
• Why should you prioritise your health?
• Tools and exercises to help you stay focused on your priorities

Transcript Of Is Your Health A Top Priority

Hello, and welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr Orlena Kerek. I hope that you are feeding, fit and fabulous.

Spending Time With Kids. One Of My Priorities. 

Here in Spain, it's a four day bank holiday. My children are off school on Monday and Tuesday.  It's Monday as I record this. You can hear the dulcet tones of my children hollering in the...

Hands up who's too busy to exercise? As a busy mum, there are always other things screaming for attention.

Exercising is crucial for looking after your body, especially if you want a toned and fit body. Exercise is also important for your health and if you want to lead a long and healthy life.

But.

It’s easy to sit still all day (especially if you work at a desk.) It’s easy to do very little exercise with out busy schedules.

On the other hand.

It’s also very easy to make sure you do enough exercise. When you have the systems, habits and routines in place, your exercise routine will be easy and fun to follow.

Today Dr Orlena talks about how you can create your exercise routine in a way that is fun, easy and sustainable. So you can lead your most healthy life and feel fit and fabulous.

Transcript of How To Find Time To Exercise As A Busy Mom Podcast.

Hello, and welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek. I hope that you are feeling fit and fabulous today....

The holiday season is a dangerous time to overindulge and allow our behaviour to "spiral down the negative plug hole".

With a few tweaks, it can be a great time to maintain healthy habits and have fun (without depriving ourselves.)

Dr Orlena's top tips to keep your festive season healthy and fun.

Mentioned in the Podcast

Dr Orlena's International Fit and Fabulous Family Summit: https://www.drorlena.com/fit-and-fabulous-family-summit/

Hello. Wonderful people. Welcome to another episode of Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek.

I hope that you are feeling fit and fabulous. We have another day today here in Spain, which is typical of 2020. I was just about to set out, dropping my kids off at school. We had our jackets on, our masks on and I was just arranging to meet up with one of the other mothers so that I could give her some uniforms that we no longer want.

And then I checked the WhatsApp group and saw that there were lots of messages. Guess what? No school today....

We all want to lead a long, healthy and active life. What we eat is a major contributor to our health and longevity.

But what exactly should we eat? What should we avoid? And why?

Dr Alan Desmond "the Devon gut doctor" is here to help us out.

Dr Orlena chats to Dr Alan Desmond about how what you eat affects your health, your gut and your biome. And how all three are inter connected.

Dr Alan Desmond is a wealth of knowledge and generously shares it with us today.

You'll learn:

• What  foods and type of diet are recommended by most experts that will help improve your health
• Why a plant based diet is a healthy and easy option for good health
• What the microbiome is and why it's so important to our bodies and health

Transcript Of What You Should Eat To Lead A Long And Healthy Life With Dr. Alan Desmond.

Hello and welcome to the Fit and Fabulous podcast with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek. I hope that you are feeling fit and fabulous.

Preparing For Next Year’s Fabulous Adventure....

Humans are emotional creatures. Emotions drive our actions. At times we get overwhelmed by our emotions which can lead us into an unproductive space. How can becoming aware of our emotions help us?

In today's episode let's learn the following:

• What Are Emotions?
• How can being aware of emotions help us?
• How can we stop getting overwhelmed by emotions?
• What is emotional granularity?
• Fun ways to identify our emotions

Transcript Of How Creating Emotions Can Make You Feel Fit And Fabulous.

Hello, and welcome to Fit and Fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek.  I hope that you are feeling fabulous. 

My Feel-Good Week

My children have gone back to school. It gives me a little bit more time to focus my brain on work. Also, on what I'm achieving and all the exciting things that I'm putting together at the moment.

As you may have gathered, I find it a little bit tricky to do homeschooling and focusing on my business at the same time.  

Amazing Books I Recommend

I have been...

Stress is something that affects us every day. (Especially now that many of us are returning to lock down and working with kids at home.) How do we learn to live with stress so that it doesn't affect us negatively?

Dr Orlena talks about preventing stress and steps to take when you feel your stress levels beginning to rise.

Today, I'm going to talk about how changing your thinking will help you cope with stress. I'm also going to share with you some tips and tricks that will reduce stress and will make you feel fit and fabulous.

 You'll learn:

• What Is Stress?
• How do you perceive stress?
• What makes you stress?
• How are you dealing with stress particularly during a lockdown?
• How to cope with stress.

Want to chat with Dr Orlena? Email her at [email protected]

Transcript Of How To Manage Stress To Make YOu Feel Fit And Fabulous.  

Hello, and welcome to fit and fabulous with me, Dr. Orlena Kerek. I hope that you are feeling fit and fabulous.

Emotional wellness isn't about living the "perfect life" where nothing bad ever happens.

Emotional wellness is having the tools and self awareness to realise how your emotions are effecting you. And how you can manage your emotions without being swept "down the negative plug hole".

To chat to Dr Orlena (either for a "wow" talk or to help her with market research) please email her at [email protected]

Dr Orlena's Super Simple System for Healthy Living for Families: https://www.drorlena.com/simple-system

It's easy to say healthy living is all about habits and systems. The reality is that in order to make changes, to create different habits and systems you need to get across the "rickety bridge".

You need to do things differently. Our habits keep us wanting to do the same thing.

So what is the very first step in making those changes?

If you're interested in making amazing changes in your life and you'd like some help, email Dr Orlena at [email protected]