Monday 19 November 2012

Emotional eating: Feeding Your Feelings

Most people have been victims of emotional eating, I myself have been a victim either when I am bored or sad. Most especially when am sad. What is emotional eating?
"Emotional eating is eating for reasons other than hunger," says Jane Jakubczak, a registered dietitian at the University of Maryland. "Instead of the physical symptom of hunger initiating the eating, an emotion triggers the eating."

Sometimes the strongest cravings for food happen when you're at your weakest point emotionally. You may turn to food for comfort — consciously or unconsciously — when you're facing a difficult problem, stress or just looking to keep yourself occupied.

But emotional eating can sabotage your weight-loss efforts. Emotional eating often leads to eating too much, especially too much of high-calorie, sweet, fatty foods. But the good news is that if you're prone to emotional eating, you can take steps to regain control of your eating habits and get back on track with your weight-loss goals.
Emotional eating is eating as a way to suppress or soothe negative emotions, such as stress, anger, fear, boredom, sadness and loneliness. Both major life events and the hassles of daily life can trigger negative emotions that lead to emotional eating and disrupt your weight-loss efforts.

Tips to avoid emotional eating

Tame your stress.
Have a hunger reality check
Get support
Fight boredom
Take away temptation
Get enough sleep.
Seek therapy.

If you have an episode of emotional eating, forgive yourself and start fresh the next day. Try to learn from the experience and make a plan for how you can prevent it in the future. Focus on the positive changes you're making in your eating habits and give yourself credit for making changes that'll lead to better health.
You have the power!!! Yes you can!!!

Xoxo

3 comments:

  1. Seek therapy...lol
    Bibi r u for real??

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  2. Yes o, she is for really, its her time to loose weight!

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  3. Therapy isn't for me ooo my case isn't that bad.....lol. Just a suggestion depending on the gravity of the situation.

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