HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND STOP EMOTIONAL EATING
We don’t always eat simply to satisfy hunger.
We also turn to food for comfort, stress relief, or as a reward.
Unfortunately, emotional eating doesn’t fix emotional problems. It
usually makes you feel worse. Afterward, not only does the original
emotional issue remain, but you also feel guilty for overeating.
Learning to recognize your emotional eating triggers is the first step
to breaking free from food cravings and compulsive overeating, and
changing the habits that have sabotaged your diets in the past.
Understanding emotional eating
If you’ve ever make room for dessert even
though you’re already full or dove into a pint of ice cream when you’re
feeling down, you’ve experienced emotional eating. Emotional eating is
using food to make yourself feel better—eating to fill emotional needs,
rather than to fill your stomach.
Using food from time to time as a pick me up, a
reward, or to celebrate isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But when eating
is your primary emotional coping mechanism—when your first impulse is to
open the refrigerator whenever you’re upset, angry, lonely, stressed,
exhausted, or bored—you get stuck in an unhealthy cycle where the real
feeling or problem is never addressed.
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