Hello Friends,
A very good day/night to you all. As mentioned in earlier posts our mind controls most of our actions including our desire to reach out for food and to eat it.
Ideally speaking when we are hungry we should reach out for food and that too healthy food. But this does not happen as we let our emotions dictate the time and type of food we eat, this is what can be termed as Emotional Eating. Years ago (kilos ago) I started putting on weight gradually due to Emotional Eating and I was actually unaware of it. I did a lot of things to shed off the extra weight , gave up at times , got back to my schemes once again and so on, always the sincerity level of my efforts were inversely proportional to my weight. You will love to read about those campaigns but I leave that for some other time or some other post as we have to get back to the topic of Emotional Eating.
Emotional Eating can take the form of binge eating, skipping food when you should be actually eating, eating later which leads to overeating, reaching out for over the counter unhealthy food or eating mindlessly the food which is unsuitable for you .( That is if you have a high B.P. having high sodium, salty stuff, if you have high cholesterol having stuff which will increase it etc.)
Reasons for Emotional Eating.
Curbing Emotional Eating
Of course the best way to avoid getting into emotional eating is to control your emotions in the first place and train your mind not to get into an emotional eating spree under any circumstance. This is a difficult task and while you master it there are relatively easier means to control Emotional eating like:
So, do you agree that emotional eating takes us away from a zealouszestyliving? And do you indulge in emotional eating too, or have you conquered it , please share your experiences. Thank you for reading and till the next post I leave you with this thought.
"Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body." -B.W. Richardson.
http://www.antrik.com/index.php?module=ebooks&func=ebookDetail&id=633
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A very good day/night to you all. As mentioned in earlier posts our mind controls most of our actions including our desire to reach out for food and to eat it.
Ideally speaking when we are hungry we should reach out for food and that too healthy food. But this does not happen as we let our emotions dictate the time and type of food we eat, this is what can be termed as Emotional Eating. Years ago (kilos ago) I started putting on weight gradually due to Emotional Eating and I was actually unaware of it. I did a lot of things to shed off the extra weight , gave up at times , got back to my schemes once again and so on, always the sincerity level of my efforts were inversely proportional to my weight. You will love to read about those campaigns but I leave that for some other time or some other post as we have to get back to the topic of Emotional Eating.
Emotional Eating can take the form of binge eating, skipping food when you should be actually eating, eating later which leads to overeating, reaching out for over the counter unhealthy food or eating mindlessly the food which is unsuitable for you .( That is if you have a high B.P. having high sodium, salty stuff, if you have high cholesterol having stuff which will increase it etc.)
Reasons for Emotional Eating.
- Sometimes we are hungry but too tired so we devour the first thing which we see or which is easily available. Couple tiredness with having to take efforts in cooking for yourself and we have a foolproof formula for Emotional eating.
- Some people can follow a strict diet regimen while at work , away from home. But when they reach home at the end of a tiring day , they are physically and mentally exhausted and also hungry so they go into an eating spree before attacking the household work which awaits them.
- Being upset over some silly issue makes you either binge or the preoccupied state of mind makes you miss your meals. Either way this is bad irrespective of whether you are overweight, underweight, have some health issues or have good health parameters.
- Some foods which you like give you a feeling of comfort so you eat though you are not hungry and to deal with your insecurities. Comfort eating results in chubby happy type of people who will soon be tumbling after- their downhill moving health parameters.
- Nearly one eighth of the world population do not have enough to eat on one hand and and more than that are overweight and obese due to overeating. We know this and to avoid wastage of food we use our body as a garbage can putting away calories of food which we do not require.
- The sight of a tempting goody makes some eat when not hungry. One of my friends who sights anything tempting, even from the corner of her eye makes it her business to devour it. Her size is a witness to my statement.
- Sometimes people eat JTP(Just for time pass) this is very dangerous and it means you do not have anything meaningful to do or are whiling away time avoiding your duties due to laziness.
If you can think of any other reasons please feel free to add. Most of the times even after we realize that we a into Emotional Eating we cannot pin point the reason.
Curbing Emotional Eating
Of course the best way to avoid getting into emotional eating is to control your emotions in the first place and train your mind not to get into an emotional eating spree under any circumstance. This is a difficult task and while you master it there are relatively easier means to control Emotional eating like:
- Learn to identify real hunger that is when you are hungry and should be eating and then think of eating as opposed to wanting to pounce on eatables after you sight them or after you think of them.
- Ponder on your feelings when you binged so that you can avoid a repeat episode or episodes of bingeing.
- Avoid stocking unhealthy stuff in your kitchen and refrigerator.
- Always stock up sufficient healthy snacks and foodstuff of your choice.So when you reach home after a tiring day there is always some healthy goody waiting for you. Even if you are at home and not working this will come in handy.
- If some food is too tempting or forbidden for you but you have to have it in your house say for other family members, do not keep it in the range of your vision.
- There are many other ways of avoiding wastage of food like sharing it with the needy, cooking only the desired quantity etc. as compared to stuffing yourself.
- Do not eat when you are upset at the same time do not skip meals when you are upset.
- Try to solve your insecurities instead of turning to comfort foods when you are not hungry otherwise it will add to your set of problems by spoiling your health as you will have one more thing to worry. Comfort eating is actually good if the food in question is healthy and you are eating it at the right time and in the right quantity.
- Plan your meals in advance especially when you know that you would be having a busy time ahead.
- Have timely meals.
So, do you agree that emotional eating takes us away from a zealouszestyliving? And do you indulge in emotional eating too, or have you conquered it , please share your experiences. Thank you for reading and till the next post I leave you with this thought.
"Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body." -B.W. Richardson.
http://www.antrik.com/index.php?module=ebooks&func=ebookDetail&id=633
THE CONTENTS OF THIS BLOG ARE
