How to Stop Eating With Your Emotions

How to Stop Eating With Your Emotions - Here are many people who eat based on their emotions. What does this mean? When they are angry, sad, or feeling depressed, they just go to do refrigerator and start eating all the food they can. When people do this, they are out of control, like if somebody has taken control of their consciousness.

Let's get something clear:

YOU ARE IN CONTROL!

It may feel that you are out of control in those situations. It's strange because what we want is to lose weight and have a great shape, but we often do just the opposite of that: overeating all the time based on our emotions.But the reality is simple; you can control this. Eating requires a decision to eat, a deliberate act.

Although eating requires a conscious decision to eat, it is influenced by both conscious and unconscious factors. We're not always aware of the emotions, feelings and driving forces that shape our behavior.

Also, we should consider the emotional power food has. For many people, it is a source of pleasure, distraction and positive emotions. We don't focus on giving nutrients to our body; we just want to eat something delicious, crispy, fried and full of fat.Is very common to seek food when we feel stressed, sad, angry or with any other negative emotion to feel a little relief from the situation we are living.

Feel your feelings

Instead of looking for food in an instinctual way, try to pause and make a little reflexion with yourself. Why are you going to eat? How do you feel at that moment? Try to find other things to do instead of eating when you think emotions are controlling you a lot. Some sport, hobby, game or conversation with a friend can help a lot more.

Let me share with you three steps to a more conscious eating:

1. Taking responsibility for your eating. 

Look for a solution, find a good eating plan and stick to it as long as you can. Call a nutrition expert if needed.

2. Eating with a purpose. 

Why do you eat? This is a very good question to keep asking yourself all the time. When you do this, you will gain a lot more consciousness and know when you really are eating because you need to or just based on feelings.

3. Be fully aware of your feelings. 

Why are you feeling like this? Try to examine and reflect on your emotions. Let eating be your last reaction when you feel upset or stressed.

When you can control your feelings and stop overeating, your health will dramatically improve, I guarantee that.
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