If you struggle with emotional eating, you aren’t alone. Far too many of us make our bad eating choices because of emotions, instead of eating based on our health needs.
We often make very poor food choices because of feelings. In this article, I will give you some tips for how to avoid damaging eating patterns stemming from emotional eating.
First, be aware that changes in life circumstances can kick off a bout of emotional eating. This includes things like poor health, job loss, relationship woes, and changes in your environment. Be aware of this, and check to see what in your life may have changed recently.
To combat emotional eating, it is critical to be able to recognize the difference between emotion-based desire for food and actual hunger. Many of us don’t know the difference. You need to know how to gauge if your experienced hunger is actually coming from your body.
Every time you get the urge to eat, ask yourself if you are really hungry or if you are trying to deal with emotions via food.
Don’t reach for your favorite snack foods either. Stay away from foods you find especially comforting as these tend to be the ones you will turn to in emotional eating.
Sometimes we think we are really hungry, but we’ve eaten recently. If this happens to you, try to distract yourself. This can be very effective, and often after a while you forget about being hungry. Exercise works well for this, and burns calories besides.
Try for a while to control your own emotional eating, and remember that these habits won’t be broken overnight. Real, lasting change may take some time. However, if you work for a good while on changing your unhealthy eating habits but can’t manage it, you may need the help of a professional. Emotional eating is a compulsion that can have many harmful effects and it is important to stop this behavior.
We need food to live. However, food can also be used as a drug. It can be abused as a drug as well, and cause more harm than good if misused.
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