How To End Emotional Eating

If you want to know how to end emotional eating...congratulations. It takes a strong person to even recognize that they might be doing this.

To begin with, let's identify what emotional eating actually is.

It's eating when a specific incidence (or set of incidences) happens that produces a "high" or "low" feeling for someone. For example, someone might seek comfort in food after a bad day at work, a fight with a loved one... or even something small such as having to sit in a lot of traffic before work.

Conversely, one might emotionally eat when there are good things happening as well. People often gain weight when they're in relationships because they're so happy and comfortable.

It's important to acknowledge that sometimes people get urges to eat food for reasons that have little to do with being hungry, but more of catering to our desires. We get desires to eat and we think that the only cure for these temptations is to eat fattening foods (and in actuality, there are more healthy things that can be done).

Emotional eating only leads to downward spirals because it makes the problem worse since it leads to feelings of guilt, packing on weight, and overall adding poor nutrition to the body.

It's a good thing that you're looking for information on how to end emotional eating.
Some things that you can do immediately are to figure out why you're emotionally eating and what types of events make you do this. You can also figure out when you're really hungry as opposed to when you want to just eat emotionally.

You should also find other ways to release your feelings (both positive and negative). You can write in a journal, go shopping, indulge in a bath, or read a good book.

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