Tips For Loss Weight -Emotional Eating

What Is Emotional Eating?

Do you find yourself gorging on a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)
when you feel happy or sad? If yes, you may be an emotional
eater. Emotional eating can sabotage your weight loss efforts.
It is essential to recognize emotional eating and deal with the
problem if you wish to lose weight successfully.

Some people resort to foods when their emotions wax or wane.
For instance, a person going through a divorce or someone who
has been fired may derive comfort from a big tub of ice-cream
or burger and fries.The food they eat gives them a temporary
high and soon eating according to ones emotions becomes a habit.
Most of the time,people tend to find comfort in high calorie junk
foods.The result of doing such is weight gain.

Signs Of Emotional Eating

- Eating even if you are not hungry simply because you feel
  angry or upset or happy.

- Eating out of boredom.

- Eating large amounts.If you are an emotional eater, you are
  bound to eat till you feel uncomfortably full.

- You may feel guilty after binging unnecessarily on so much
  food.

- Most emotional eaters prefer foods like pizza,ice cream and
  burgers.

- Remember, if you are an emotional eater, your eating habits
  will be dictated by your emotions and not by your stomach.

How To Stop Emotional Eating?

The first step towards dealing with emotional eating is to
identify whether it is really hunger that is making you eat.
Before you start eating, take a minute to identify the reason
behind your eating.A good way to do this is by keeping a
journal of your day,activities and feelings.Also write down
what you eat each day.By going through the journal,you will
be able to identify whether it is emotions making you eat.

Next is to deal with the problem that is on your mind.If you
cannot do it yourself,seek help from friends, family or a
therapist.

Maintain an overall sense of well being.Take care of your
appearance,exercise and be active in society.

Learn to identify when you are really hungry.If you still feel
hungry even after drinking water or juice or eating a light and
healthy snack like carrot sticks,chances are you are really
hungry and need to eat a full meal.

Don’t stress out about your diet plans or the lack of progress
you see in your loss weight plan.Stress can also trigger you
from being emotional eating.Remember,it takes time to loss
weight and if you stick to your plan,you will see the results.

Build your confidence and self esteem. Learn to accept
yourself as you are and take time to learn new skills and
socialize.Spend some time getting your hair or make up done,
so that you look good.This will work wonders for your self
esteem.When you feel confident and happy,emotions will not
take control over your eating habits,you will towards success
loss weight.