High Emotional Eating

Emotional Eating

Emotional eating is eating because of feelings and not

because of hunger. You find yourself eating larger and more

often than you would ordinarily eat because of

prevailing circumstances in and around you.

It is estimated that about 75% of people who overeat

do so because of emotional disturbances.

 

You might notice in yourself or family or friends that a

certain level of positive excitement makes you want to eat and

eat. Does this remind you of Christmas and

Thanksgiving eating sprees?

 

Do you find yourself eating more to give yourself a pat on

the back? To celebrate You?

And then you overeat because you deserve it?

You eat and eat, not because of hunger but because of your feelings.

This is emotional eating.

 

Another extreme is the negative one.

Here, you eat for comfort,

that’s to comfort yourself over a certain

loss or upset, or pain.

 

Boredom, broken relationship, anger, fatigue, frustration,

loneliness, failure, depression, death of a

loved one, poor self-esteem and such negative

emotions can result in overeating and binge.

 

What are The Possible Triggers Of Emotional Eating?

• Emotional: Emotional upsets can trigger overeating beyond
  control.  If you let yourself live in a continuous state of boredom,
  feelings of disappointment, anger, depression,
  inferiority, helplessness, stress, fatigue,
  failure or the like,
  using food to ‘make up’ becomes natural.
• Thoughts Of Helplessness: You might feel inadequate,
  too fat, and experience a strong pull to eat and eat.
  This kind of feeling has the funny result
  of even making you eat much more because,
  that’s often your Focus.
  You chide yourself, feel helpless,
  and still go on eating more.

• Social: Eating with friends and colleagues affect
  some people negatively especially if you find it
  hard to say, “No’’. The encouragement to go for another helping
  could be quite compelling especially if
  coming from somebody you admire.

 

• Medical: Perhaps you have, like I have,
  met people who overeat heavily as a result
  of some medication or another they have been placed on.

How To Stop Emotional Eating

To stop emotional eating, you must

do something differently.

• For instance, loneliness has a seed of solution
  within it: Stop pitying yourself
  and how many friends have become unreachable to you.
  Reach out to others.
  The world is full of many great
  and nice people you haven’t yet met.

• Engage in light aerobic exercises.
  Include deep breathing exercise to it.
  Take walks, or jog.
  Read a good book

 

Breaking free from emotional eating

could be tasking but if you put your mind to doing it,

you’ll experience a new level of

happiness and vitality.

 

Consider engaging in some pleasurable venture instead of

responding to the strong desire to eat.

 

Choose to be a Thermostat and not a Thermometer emotionally.

A thermometer just responds to the environment.

A thermostat conditions the environment.

Emotional eating would become a thing of the past

if you are a Thermostat.

 

 

Emotional Eating to Eating Disorder Recovery


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