How To Get Free of Emotional Eating

How can you, if you have read other articles by me, I can be quite emotional about food. Enjoy a well-prepared food, especially in the company of friends or relatives, is a joy that's hard to top.

Many people my love of good food and good food, of course, but there's a point where the feeling of food can lead us the wrong way. "Emotional eating" is a relatively new term for a problematic behavior, is one of the sources of today's obesity epidemic.

In short, emotional eating is a meal that you have some other reason than because you are hungry. It has also been described as the practice of feeding large quantities of food, especially junk food, in response to one's feelings not to be hungry. And although feelings - usually negative - trigger emotional eating, the point of such conduct is to make these feelings in our consciousness.

Emotional Eating is not officially recognized as an eating disorder, but it is still a problem for millions of people. Together with the closely related phenomenon of stress eating, it is one of the behaviors that can easily torpedo well-intentioned attempt diet.

Emotional Eating is a habit, and how other unwanted habits, the trick to beating them is a substitute for good habits for them. Yes, this is easier said than done. But speaking as someone who has been through their own emotional phases eat, it's worth the trouble.

Here are some tips for Breaking Free emotional eating:

• If you feel the bad feelings Wellinghausen up - those who have to eat when you are not hungry - Do not turn away from them. Let this experience completely.
• monitor itself throughout the day and at regular intervals, your level of hunger or fullness. Do not eat, unless you can honestly tell you that you are physiologically hungry at this moment.
• If you eat, do it deliberately. Do not read, talk to others or watch television. Be aware of every bite of food that you in your mouth. Most importantly, be aware when you are full and no longer need to eat to appetite.
• Know your specific emotional eating triggers. Keep a food diary for a few days, in writing, which (and how much) you eat and how you feel when you started to eat. This uncover negative eating habits that you should try to avoid.
• something instead of food to comfort. Exercise, go to a movie or concert, or call a friend you have not talked in a long time. If you successfully prevented an imminent result of emotional eating, treat yourself to a nonfood award.
• not keep junk food, or so-called comfort food is your home or office.
• If you snack, do it in a healthy manner. Eat fruit, a handful of nuts or pecans, or some popcorn (no butter !).
• Make sure you eat a balanced diet. If you do not have enough food to make your basic energy needs during the meal, you are more likely to eat emotionally. Stand your meals, including vegetables, fruit, whole grain bread or pasta and lean meat.
• Get enough sleep at night, and - if time permits - Take a short nap in the afternoon. As a chronically unrested leads to bad mood, which in turn is a precursor to emotional eating.
• learn to meditate. Meditation will help you from your thoughts too seriously. It will prevent that your negative thoughts that lead you into the downward spiral that ends in dark, gloomy feelings.

 

Sarah Sandori is the food and entertaining columnist for the Solid Gold Info Writers Consortium. Have you ever wanted to be able to exactly duplicate a favorite dish from a favorite restaurant? Check out Sarah's article where she reveals her source for the most mouth-watering secret restaurant recipes in America: http://www.solid-gold.info/most-wanted-recipes.html

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