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Emotional eating is a big problem for many people.
Seventy per cent turn to comfort food, to varying extents, foremotional reasons. And over 90 per cent of diets fail due toslipping back into emotional eating habits.
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You might recognise yourself from this list of key behavioursand feelings emotional eaters frequently report:
Alternatively you beat yourself up for flying off the handleand/or saying things you regret when someone/somethingupsets you.
If you feel neglected by a partner, family or friends, youworry about setting things straight.
When you feel insecure and lacking in confidence you find itdifficult to ask for comfort - or to comfort yourself.
At work you might feel overlooked, never listened to, ortaken advantage of but you don't want to rock the boat byraising this.
If these, or similar, thoughts and behaviours mean you headto snacks or extra helpings to ease emotional upset or stress -then emotional eating is something you should tackle.
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Where does my emotional eating come from?
Think about these scenarios: As a child when you, e.g., fell offyour bicycle your mother would say 'come on, you'll feel betterafter a treat.'
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This behaviour of using food to soothe emotions is
extremely common in families. It's nothing to do with being 'badparents' , it's simply unrecognised as establishing in childhood arelationship with food that turns it into comfort.
Become actively aware of your emotional eating
Dump unhealthy snacks from your workplace and home.Instead when you need to fuel your energy needs (not your
emotional needs) have a banana, small portion of unsalted/friednuts, veggie sticks with low-fat yoghurt dip, etc.
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Your emotional eating might have originated within yourfamily but that doesn't mean you can't start understanding andmanaging it from today.
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