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Overeating or Undereating? Here’s What Your Body Is Really Telling You

Struggling with emotional eating? Discover the real cause of overeating and undereating, how stress hormones affect your appetite, and how Sadhguru’s yogic tools can restore balance from within.

Are You Overeating or Undereating -

and Wondering 🤔Why?

If you’ve ever found yourself binge-eating without hunger or losing your appetite during stress, you’re not alone. Many people today are unknowingly caught in emotional eating patterns — either reaching for food to soothe their nerves or avoiding it completely due to overwhelm.

What’s really behind this imbalance? And how can we shift it — naturally, gently, and permanently?

In this post, I’ll share my personal experience with emotional eating, the science behind it, and how the 21-day Leela Hatha Yoga program, designed by Sadhguru, offers a powerful solution to restore your mind-body connection.

The Real Root of Emotional Eating: It’s Not About Food

For a long time, I didn’t understand why I would suddenly start munching — even when I wasn’t physically hungry. It wasn’t about cravings or flavors. It was about stress, anxiety, and the need to feel better now.

Overeating often comes from trying to soothe internal tension. Undereating arises when stress is so intense that it shuts down the appetite altogetherThis is not a lack of willpower. This is your body responding to stress hormones — particularly cortisol and epinephrine, which either trigger cravings or suppress hunger, depending on the nature of the stress.

The Stress-Hormone Connection.

When you’re in a stressed state, your body releases:

• Cortisol: Boosts blood sugar and triggers hunger, especially for comfort foods.

• Epinephrine: Kicks in during acute stress (fight-or-flight), which can reduce appetite temporarily.

• CRF (Corticotropin-Releasing Factor): Suppresses hunger when stress is high.

That’s why during emotional overwhelm, your body can send mixed signals. Sometimes you overeat to calm down, and other times, you lose all desire to eat.

The Gut-Brain Axis: Why Your Emotions Affect Your Digestion

Modern science now affirms the ancient yogic wisdom: Your gut and brain are deeply connected. Your mental and emotional states directly influence digestion, absorption, cravings, and mood.

Sadhguru explains:

“If you are in tune with your system, you will naturally eat what is best for the body, in the right quantity.”

The real issue is disconnection — from the body, emotions, and inner awareness.

Conscious Eating Begins with Conscious Living

If we can become conscious of why we’re eating, not just what we’re eating, we can shift this cycle entirely.

For example:

• After consuming marijuana or hash (which many do to “relax”), the THC in it boosts hunger by stimulating the brain’s appetite centers — creating false hunger.

• Similarly, emotional eating patterns are learned behaviours your brain uses to escape discomfort.

But once you become aware of these patterns, you can choose differently — not by force, but by clarity.

Yogic Practices That Break the Emotional Eating Cycle

At Leela Hatha Yoga, the 21-day program combines ancient yogic science with daily sadhana, satvik food, and meditative space to help you naturally rise above emotional eating.

Here’s how the key practices help:

1. Surya Kriya

A deeply internal kriya that aligns your system with solar energy. It develops focus, calm, and emotional balance — reducing stress-eating at the root.

2. Angamardana

A full-body yogic workout that activates every muscle and builds strength. It charges your energy, cuts inertia, and leaves you feeling light, not heavy.

3. Yogasanas

Not just stretches — these postures align your inner energies. They release unconscious stress and bring deep relaxation and emotional clarity.

4. Balancing Sadhana

Daily practice stabilizes the system. It clears emotional noise, reduces mental fog, and makes consistent, conscious living natural — not effortful.

Satvik Food: Healing from the Inside Out

During the program, you’re nourished with fresh, ayurvedic, sattvic meals that support digestion, clarity, and vitality.

You’ll notice:

• Food cravings drop dramatically 😍

• You feel full with less food

• Digestion improves

• Your relationship with food becomes peaceful ♡

A Rejuvenating Space for Inner Transformation

At Leela Hatha Yoga, transformation doesn’t come from struggle — it comes from alignment. The presence of Sannidhi and the energy of the space create a powerful support for deep, lasting change.

Most importantly:

• You don’t have to force yourself to be disciplined.

• You don’t have to fight your cravings.

• You don’t have to suffer to heal.

Healing happens gently — and joyfully — when the right tools and environment come together.

"Invest in Yourself Before Years Are Wasted"

If you’ve been stuck in a loop of overeating, under-eating, or emotional confusion — I see you. I’ve been there. But I also found a path that works.

If you have the time and willingness to invest in yourself, don’t wait.

This 21-day journey can save you years of stress and emotional struggle, and help you finally live from a place of balance, clarity, and ease

Ready to Break Free from Emotional Eating?

Join the next Leela Hatha Yoga 21-Day Program and step into your most balanced self — naturally

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