To Stop Your Emotional Overeating
Category : Women Health, Women Lifestyle
The weight-loss success stories here all have one thing in common: all of them found a way to stop turning to food for emotional reasons. Unfortunately, it???s not easy to resist the desire for a snack when the world seems overwhelming!
Our environment has become inundated with food that???s available 24/7. Couple that with today???s hectic lifestyle and the stress that often follows, and you can see how this overexposure to food can trigger many people to overeat.
The following tips from Weight Loss and Fitness will help you recognize stress and deal with life???s unexpected twists and turns as you aspire to eat well and stay active.
1. Become aware. Acknowledge the source of the trigger and avoid berating yourself. Your reaction to stress is very common. Food is a source of comfort for many people, reminding them of happier times. Allow yourself to feel the feelings ??? minus the food.
2. Identify when you feel the most vulnerable to overeating. For example, note when you???re sad, bored, anxious, frustrated or lonely. When you feel the urge to eat, stop and ask yourself if you are hungry or just reacting to an emotional trigger.
3. Make a list. Keep a record of the foods that are ???high risk??? for you. That is, list foods that once you start eating you can???t stop. In the initial stages of weight loss it may be helpful not keep them around.
4. Avoid easy access. Put tempting foods in rarely opened cabinets, or don???t have them in the house at all.
5. Turn off the TV while you eat. Watching television during mealtime can tune out internal cues that tell us we???re full.
6. Serve food hotel-style (at the stove), not family-style (at the table).
7. In restaurants, ask the waiters to remove the bread at the other end of the table.
8. Share large-portioned meals with your friend or family member when dining out or simply have waiter place half of the meal in a ???doggy-bag??? for later.
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