Are You An Emotional Eater?
Does food serve as a distraction from uncomfortable moments in your life? If so, emotional eating may be your way of avoiding emotional discomfort. What is emotional eating? "Emotional eating is eating for reasons other than hunger," "Instead of the physical symptom of hunger initiating the eating, an emotion triggers the eating." So we eat when we are stressed or anxious, lonely, sad and depressed, or going through PMS, but also when we are happy. In other words a positive emotion could be the trigger or a negative one the result is the same: high calorie intake. Experts estimate that 75% of overeating is caused by emotions. At one time or another we all experiment emotional eating, most of the experts are considering that when someone does it occasionally, it's not a big problem. However, when a person's relationship with food and behaviors around food start to influence either mental or physical health, or the person's ability to live a n...