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Emotional Eating - Separating Your FeelingsEmotional Eating and separating your feelings can be difficult. Why Do You Eat When You Aren't Hungry? Stress and boredom, among other things trigger your feelings. You turn to food for comfort, how do you overcome that? This is a problem that you don't see happening to you. But you learned very young that food is associated with love. As a baby being fed by your mother, when you were a child being rewarded for something good and even if you were upset, you'd get a special meal or treat to make you feel better. As you grew up, you remember the good feelings associated with food. Your emotions turn on the hunger key and you use food for comfort. The major triggers of emotional eating are depression, anger, boredom, loneliness, frustration and anxiety. First Step - Aware of Your Eating Patterns
Do you over eat from boredom or stress at work? Do you over eat because you're anxious or nervous at social functions? Do you over eat from feeling bad because you didn't do something you were supposed to do? Start a food journal, record what and when you eat, and how you felt. This gives you the patterns to help you determine if you are an emotional eater. Once you are aware of the problems causing you to emotionally eat, things will start looking better. You'll be able to evaluate and understand the emotions causing you to eat when you aren't hungry. You can then deal with these emotions and overcome emotional eating. Substituting Activities For Emotional Eating
Exercise Get Support Walking Wash the Car Try Meditation Run Errands Make a list of other things to do, anything not associated with food. If you're busy doing something, the urge to eat usually passes. Make sure to add things you really enjoy doing as well! Don't expect everything to change over night... You've started... keep working towards your goal. "Achieving A Healthy Lifestyle For Women's Health and Fitness" |
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