Feeling Emotional?

 

 

Feeling Emotional? Need to find out why you immediately turn to food and how to stop it?........ You may be using food to “medicate” yourself in response to an emotional stimulus, and for that first moment, eating might take your mind off your problem. But in addition to the problem that caused your emotional eating, you’ll also feel guilty and unhappy about what or how much you have just eaten, which compounds the problem exponentially.

Emotions that cause overeating:

• Angry
• Sad
• Ashamed
• Disgusted
• Scared
• Lonely
• Jealous
• Restless
• Bored

What are you really hungry for? What void in your life are you filling with food?

Think before you eat…….

• When you have the overwhelming urge to eat something, try to stop and ask yourself if you really want that particular food or if you want to eat purely out of habit, or to satisfy some type of emotional hunger. This stop-and-think technique genuinely helps raise awareness and becomes much easier to use as you get used to it. Switching your kitchen around helps, too because when you move foods to different shelves and cupboards, you’ll force yourself to pause before you eat. AND it starts in the GROCERY STORE! If you don't buy it, then it's not there to tempt you at home. DON'T GO GROCERY SHOPPING HUNGRY!