What is emotional eating? Emotional eating is a way to suppressing negative emotions a person felt at the moment you decide to eat. Negative emotions such as stress, anger, fear, boredom, sadness and loneliness are surefire making up the emotional eating problem.
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There are lot of people suffer from the same eating
problems, but among those eating issues, there is one that really stands out.
Emotional eating. For most individuals, emotional eating is the leading cause
of abnormal weight gain, as you end up compensating for your emotional distress
by sitting down for a large snack. Although once in a while this is fine;
however, doing it too often and soon you will find it hard to lose any weight.
Every time when you eat something, you need to jot
down your state of mind in your food journal. Wee you feeling tired, stressed,
upset, depressed, happy or energetic? By writing a few words about how you felt
at the moment you decided to eat can make a huge difference when it comes to
analyzing your eating behavior.
If you want to get even more in depth in your food
journal, you should go ahead and make the extra effort. At the end of each day,
you need to make a note about what happened during the day. Were the events
good or not so good? Did the event lead you to eating more than you normally
would have?
Once you start analyzing your emotional pattern
regarding your hunger levels and how often you eat your meals, you may be able
to find an eating behavioral pattern that you can use to become a proper eater.
You might be able to find that you have the tendency to eat more when you’re feeling
blue or depressed, even if you do not feel hungry at all. Or probably you will
find that you boost happy moments with food to make you feel even better.
The goal of any food journal that you create is to be
able to establish and understand your dietary patterns and see what needs to be
rectified if you wish to lose weight. Though the core of your food journal should
be based on what you eat and how much of it you consume, you should also find
time to write about your state of mind and/or emotions, how often you eat and
where you have your meals. Although these facts may seem useless at the
beginning, but they can provide you with a number of significant observations
about you that needs changing if you really want to trim down on weight.