Many people suffer from the same eating problems, but among those eating issues, there is one that stands out. Emotional eating. For most people, it is the leading cause of abnormal weight gain, as you end up compensating for your emotional distress by sitting down for a large snack. If you do it often, then you’ll find it hard to lose any weight although it’s fine if it’s only once in a while.
You need to write down your state of mind in your food journal every time you eat something. Find out what you were feeling during that time, whether you were energetic, tired, happy, depressed, or upset. At the time you decided to eat, write down a few words about how you felt because when it’s time to analyze your eating behaviors, it can make a lot of difference.
Your emotions are a good starting point but to get even more in depth in your journal, then you should make that extra effort. What you can do is make a note about what happened during that day. Were the events good or bad? Find out if the events lead you to eat more that you would have.
Your emotions should be analyzed in regard to how often you eat your meals and your hunger levels and once that’s done, you can find a pattern to become a more proper eater. You may find that even if you’re not really hungry, you eat more when you’re depressed. Or to make you feel even better, you bolster happy days with food.
In any food journal you create, the ultimate goal is being able to track your dietary patterns to see what needs to be changed if you want to lose weight. Based on what and how much you eat is the core of your food notebook but taking the time to write about your state of mind, how often you eat, and where you have your meals is another thing you should do. At first, these facts may seem useless but they can provide you with a number of interesting observations regarding you need to change in order to lose weight.
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