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Emotional Eating

Are you an emotional eater who eats large quantities of comfort food as a result of emotional needs rather than hunger

examples of emotional eating are :-

• You aren't hungry enough to eat an apple but you are definitely interested in diving into your favourite treat.
• You feel stressed about a particular issue or something going on in your life but instead of dealing with it directly, you delay by heading off to find your favourite snack food.
• You turn to foods or beverages when you feel fatigued and need energy.
• When you do something good, you celebrate with a food related treat because you feel like you deserve it.

You may be reading this feeling a little guilty knowing that you sometimes eat emotionally, maybe even as recently as right before reading this article, but don't fret! I'm here to tell you the truth about emotional eating.

The reality is, most people emotionally eat at times. Often we are told that our eating habits are the culprit behind all of our problems… that it's the emotional eating or the overeating that is bad or wrong behaviour.

Food is a very emotional thing and it stems back all the way to when we were babies and our mother or parents would nourish us with breast milk or a bottle while holding us and giving us comfort and love.

In many cultures, food is used as an integral part of celebration and this is not a big deal, in fact many of those cultures have a healthier relationship with food than we do.

The problem isn't eating out of emotion. The problem is when you continue to ignore the emotion that is causing you to turn to food for comfort. When you eat to make yourself feel better, you are eating in order to fill a void.

But the thing is, food only temporarily fills that void. You will never be truly satisfied until you learn that what you really need is to fill the void with what you really want, not with food.

So you see, emotional eating really isn't even about food at all. Instead, the unhealthy sort of emotional eating is about things like a lack of:

• Pleasure and happiness
• Control over your life
• Awareness and attention to what you really want

Emotional eating is simply a signal for you to begin paying more attention to what is really going on in your life that is causing you to practice these behaviours.

Eating to comfort oneself is not inappropriate. It has served a purpose for you. It had to have, otherwise you wouldn't have done it. Let's take this notion a step further. YOU are not inappropriate. Your eating habits are not something to feel guilty about or judge yourself over. You haven't done anything wrong. Like I said, we all have eaten out of emotion. Even I still eat out of a need for comfort versus hunger a large chunky chocolate bar is great, even knowing what I know. The key is to:

• Understand what you are doing and why.
• Understand what you actually need—i.e. how you can take care of yourself and fill the void that needs to be filled.

When you understand and can take action on these two things, then the emotional eating will end with a few cookies or a single serving of chips rather than the whole bag. In other words, when you learn how to take care of the root issue, the emotional eating will naturally go away on its own.

David Ogden
CEO TheInterBiz LLC
Phone 386 308 1956 after 6PM EST

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