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The Link Between Stress Eating And Weight

By James Spann


Emotional eating refers to taking food with a view it will sooth or reduce your negative feelings. Some of these emotions may include sadness, anger, boredom, stress, fear and loneliness. The daily events that humans participate in can trigger these emotions and result into stress eating among other effects.

People can eat for different reasons. It is unfortunate that some people seek comfort in food whenever they are going through difficult situations. Taking food because you are going through stressful situations does not at all solve problems. After one has eaten they feel worse than before because they have added unnecessary calories.

Taking food as a reward, to celebrate or using food as a pick up once in a while is not bad. However, when one start taking food with an objective of coping emotionally with an issue, when you find that every time things are not fine you are opening the refrigerator know that you are eating due to stress. People can also turn to food when they are lonely, exhausted, angry or bored.

Taking food to overcome emotions will never work for anyone. One may enjoy it but the situation that evoked the negative emotions will still remain or even get worse. After taking it one feels bad than before; they feel bad that they have added calories and also overpowered by their eating habits. Often the end result is a feeling of guilty due to reckless eating and lack of will power to deal with their situation.

There is a relationship between trauma and weight loss. It is essential that people learn good ways of handling their problems. Immediately one fails to seek healthy ways of dealing their emotions thy turn to overeating. It is sad that it frustrates one weight loss efforts making it harder and harder to control their weight or reduce. The end result is that one feels powerless over their emotions and food.

Current nutrition research has exposed that one of the challenges that people are facing today is maintain their weight. People are aware of what they should eat to live healthy but unfortunately, daily situations affect their consumption patterns. Fatigue, financial constraints, unemployment, and relationship conflicts often cause stress which may affect what one eats.

People that have not discovered ways to manage their emotions in ways that do not involve food find themselves changing their consumption habits often. Putting one on diet with a view of reducing weight may fail because it only offers logical advice assuming the main problem preventing one from eating right is lack of knowledge which is not true. Nutritional knowledge may not work when one is hijacked with emotions or when a person lacks personal conscious control on food.

People can adopt various measures to avoid eating due difficult situations. Some of these include building relationships, connecting with people, ensuring you engage in physical activities and taking time to relax




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