There is so much more to just being hungry and full when it comes to food! Our emotional connection to food plays a big role in what, when and how much we eat.
We use food to make ourselves feel better – for comfort, to relieve stress or as a reward. We fill our emotional needs through our stomach.
The good news is that emotional eating can be overcome, but first you’ve got to identify it.
Before you jump in, take a minute to think about what emotional connection you have with food.
A comfort eater is someone who turns to food to deal with loneliness, boredom, stress, anxiety and unhappiness. The idea of comfort food is different to everyone; however, comfort foods can be defined as any food which evokes a pleasurable state when eaten, such as nostalgia-inducing foods high in saturated fat and sugar.
Sabotage eaters can start out with the best intentions when it comes to improving their lifestyle through healthy eating and exercise, however, patterns of self-sabotage can start to manifest.
‘Failing’ at a diet will leave those looking to get fit and healthy feeling worse than when they started; regardless of the progress made.
Sabotage eaters frequently believe that their habits are due to weakness, but food and nutrients play such a complex role in our bodies and behaviour. Allowing your blood sugar to drop when dieting can result in a ravenous form of hunger which leads people to reach for foods which are high in sugar, saturated fat and carbohydrates.
Delusional eaters often feel frustrated at their lack of progress when it comes to weight loss. If medical causes such as thyroid problems aren’t the issue, delusional eating may be the cause.
Generally, delusional eaters will pair healthy foods with unhealthy foods and wonder why they aren’t losing weight.
There are also plenty of misconceptions around dieting, such as believing that salad with plenty of salad dressing or mayo is healthy or eating pizza with vegetables count as a healthy balanced meal.
Plenty of unhealthy eating habits revolve around the addiction to preservatives or sugar; sugar may seem harmless in comparison to other addictive substances, but the impact it has on our bodies can be just as detrimental.
Sugar addiction can lead to binging behaviour to avoid sugar crashes, which will inevitably come without regular dopamine-boosting sugar fixes. The more sugar you eat, the more you will crave it. Breaking the cycle can be difficult, but it isn’t impossible, sugar addiction can be a thing of the past in as few as ten days.
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End the roller coaster of emotional eating and endless dieting!
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