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If you sometimes (or often) eat because of how you are feeling rather than because you are truly physically hungry, you are an emotional eater. You may do it at meals, in between meals, at social occasions or late at night (for more on the connection between emotional eating and late-night snacking, click here). You may do it for any number of reasons. Some people eat to comfort themselves in stressful situations. Some eat to combat boredom and/or loneliness. Others eat when facing turmoil or disappointment. Many, many people eat to fill a void when  something or someone is missing from their lives.
Whenever you do it and whatever the reason, if you can eliminate emotional eating, you will achieve weight-loss success and feel a greater sense of self worth. No matter what I can teach you about nutritious eating, you’ll have difficulty applying the information to your own life if you are struggling with emotional eating. Emotional eating is a vicious cycle. You eat to make yourself feel better, but by giving in to self-destructive impulses, you just end up making yourself feel worse. But you can break the cycle. It takes time and you must be gentle with yourself as you go along. However, with diligence, you can find healthier coping mechanisms, and slowly but surely you can begin to understand and alter this behavior.
Overcoming emotional eating requires making some changes--some subtle, some bigger in scope. Click here for some ways to help you get started. |
