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Good news for people prone to "emotional eating"

05.09.2007

The phenomenon of the so called "emotional eating" has emerged many centuries ago, but only in our days the scientists have found the way to overcome this disease. Some people who face difficulties, problems or simply suffer boredom, loneliness, sadness or stress and many other emotional shocks tend to occupy themselves with eating.

The process either arouses the feeling of being busy or brings some other pleasure, and a bad habit of uncontrolled overeating during the periods of nervous shock makes people consume too much high-calorie, salty or sweet food. But still the "emotional eaters" can take steps to regain control of their eating habits and achieve their weight-loss goals.

Stressful work, unemployment and other life disorders tend to cause negative emotions. Another question is, how do these emotions call forth overeating? In fact, some kinds of food like chocolate and other tasty meals may have seemingly addictive qualities. When you consume something delicious, your organism releases mood- and satisfaction-elevating opiates. That recompense forms a preference for foods that are related with positive feelings. As a result the pleasure of eating compensates unpleasant emotions.

So the task of an "emotional-eating" patient aiming at weight-loss is to regain control over eating habits.

1. Learn to tell physical hunger from the emotional one. If you took meal a few hours ago and your stomach isn’t rumbling, than you hunger is not a real one.
2. Analyze your eating habits. Write down what you eat, how often you feel hunger, how you are feeling when you eat for a week or so. After some analysis of your records you will be able to see your eating patterns. You will know what triggers you have to avoid.
3. Learn to derive mental comfort from other sources than food. Go for a walk instead of consuming another chocolate bar. Enjoy nice music or a good movie, chat with a friend or read an interesting book.
4. Don’t keep unhealthy food in your house. When you feel like eating something fat and unhealthy, postpone shopping for a few hours and you’ll see that negative feelings disappear during this period of time.
5. If you can’t help eating between the meals, chose healthy low-fat snacks – fruit, vegetables or at least unbuttered pop-corn.
6. Balance you ration. Eat regularly, include foods from the basic groups to your meals. Pay attention to whole-grains, veggies, fruit, low-fat milk products. When you cover all the basics you feel fuller.
7. Your body becomes more obedient to you than to nervous shocks if you exercise it regularly. Consider mild physical activities and give yourself adequate time for rest.

If you fail to control your bad habit, forgive yourself and start fresh the next day. But derive experience from your mistakes and do your best not to repeat them. Focus on the positive changes you are making and we are sure that you will overcome difficulties as a real victor.