Speaking / Talk 03
Stress eating at work.
Why willpower advice is making it worse.
The brief
Most workplace wellbeing content frames stress eating as a willpower problem and gives the same advice for a decade: be more mindful, plan your meals, drink more water. It hasn't worked.
This talk explains why (the neurochemistry of stress doesn't care how informed the audience is) and shows what actually shifts the behaviour. No food rules. No "good vs bad" framing. A productivity-aligned reframe that respects the audience's intelligence.
Pairs naturally with Mental Health Awareness Week, Stress Awareness Month or a wider wellbeing day.
Audience takeaways
What the room walks out with.
- 01
Why stress eating is a normal biological response, not a character flaw, and what that changes about the fix.
- 02
The three triggers that predict stress eating at work, and which ones are environment, not personal.
- 03
Why "be more mindful" and food-tracking apps reliably make the behaviour worse over six months.
- 04
The one reframe that lets people interrupt the loop without adding rules or guilt.