3 Steps to Break Away From Emotional Eating
03 Saturday 2020 Blog
A man eats a cake.
Everyone turns to food to rest sometimes; Ice cream cone as pick-up after a stressful day at work, a piece of chocolate when hormonal ... You don't always eat when we're hungry, and that's okay. These small doses of stress eating are not serious, as long as they occur only every now and then.
But this can quickly evolve into a habit and begin to switch to food as an essential way to calm and soothe yourself. Now this is not so good, and not just because of extra pounds...
Emotional eating doesn't solve emotional problems — not just that. This will remain an issue, and if your emotional eating is already out of control and you are aware of it, it will just make you feel guilty for overeating rather than loving yourself. Once again.
So you enter the magic circle of food to reduce stress, then feel guilty to eat, then eat to relieve guilt... Circle is not easy to break. However, it is possible.
A man eats a cake.
What is so convenient about food?
You need to understand the mechanism first, and then interact.
Emotional eating is eating to fill emotional needs, rather than filling your stomach. There are some reasons why you are looking for food when you feel bad or stressed:
Cortisol, the stress hormone. It fills your body when you're nervous and makes you crave carbohydrates, sugar and fatty foods. So the chemical processes can be in the body.
Eating as a distraction from everything that bothers you emotionally
The food is convenient - there are vending machines and fast food restaurants on every corner.
Comfortable memories of the past. Maybe your mother used to make great cookies, and it connects you to your childhood, the age of your life when you feel safe and protected.
Whatever the reason, you can't fill emotional hunger with food – it will stay and make you feel worse about yourself or about any reason you have to overeat.
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