Stop Emotional Eating and Get Rid of Excessive Weight

                                                                            

Eating is a part of life.  Your body gets its nutrients from food.  Sometimes we go overboard with our eating habits and it results in unhealthy weight gain. Aside from being problematic to the waistline, eating mindlessly can lead to serious health problems.

What is Emotional Eating?

Emotional eating begins in the mind.  When stress takes its toll on your life, your defence systems get compromised and your health takes a hit.  Everyone has good days and bad days.  How we deal with the bad ones may bring emotional eating into play if we look for comfort for our hurts.  Those who turn to food for comfort find coping mechanisms that won’t judge them, hurt them or tell them “no.”

To complicate the issue, eating pleasurable foods can stimulate the release of endorphins just like exercise.  So, after you eat, you feel better. Emotional eaters use food to relieve stress.  They hide behind the food instead of seeking solutions to their problems.  This is not uncommon when the stressor is something horrible, such as physical abuse or a death.

Are You Dealing with Emotional Eating?

But, how do you know you are using food in this way?  The first sign is obvious, weight gain.  You will gain weight if you eat too much.

In light of the weight gain, examine other areas of your life:

* Have you been under stress lately at work or at home?

* Has anything traumatic happened in the last year?

* Are you dealing with a problem but haven’t found a solution?

Answering “yes” to any of these questions could mean that you are an emotional eater.  You eat but you are not necessarily hungry at the time.  The foods that you choose are what we term “comfort foods”:

* High fat foods like French fries, fried foods

* High carb foods like macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes

* Sugary foods like ice cream, donuts, cookies, cake

There is help for emotional eaters.  The first step is recognising that you have a problem.  You’ll experience a feeling of helplessness and guilt.  The guilt is over potentially ruining your health and the helplessness lies in the fact that you don’t see a way out.

Get this downloadable eBook and you will learn the strategies you need to redeem your self-esteem and get your life back.