Emotional Eating.
Like many of us, overweight and obese individuals are facing a variety of stressful situations in their lives. Difficult relationships, family problems, aging parents and stressful jobs to name a few. But not all of us use food to feel better in stressful situations which range from minor daily issues and boredom to major health and wellness issues.
In order to overcome emotional eating issues you need to become more conscious about what you are eating, when you eat and why. If emotional eating is part of your weight gain problem you need to take steps to overcome your emotional eating before you can achieve all of your weight loss goals.
First, keep a simple food diary to understand your eating habits, everyone underestimates their calories and forgets things that they eat during the day
Second, note on the daily diary how you are feeling and what if anything is bothering you
Third, if you are consistent about your diary you will start to see what you eat, what time of the day you overeat or make bad choices and how you felt each day.
Identifying what you are eating is a huge benefit by itself but paired with a note about how you are feeling will force you to link your eating to your feelings.
Simple tips will help you overcome your emotional eating:
* Keep a food and mood diary consistently
* You can't eat what you don't buy, avoid keeping poor nutritional foods around you
* Outline steps to overcome larger issues or at least reduce the burden on you. Situations that even seem insurmountable can become more manageable if you at least identify them and then work to improve your circumstances in some way. Over time you can leave a stressful job, get help with an aging parent or get relationship counseling but nothing is going to change unless you take steps to identify and change it.
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