What is Emotional Eating?

If you find yourself eating in response of your feelings, especially when there is no sign of appetite then be informed you are an emotional eater. Emotional eating means you are dictated by your feelings for eating o by your body.

 

What are the situations when emotional eaters do eat?

 

Most of the time emotional eater eats while they have disrupted feelings like sadness and confusion. They get in to eating to avoid their thoughts and most of the time eating is response to solve confronted problems.

If you are the one reaching the delicious and mushiest cabinet of your kitchen for comforting then it is sure you are a emotional eater and one more thing I would like to add in here is when emotional eaters take in food while they are emotionally moved are fat and calorie rich foods. The more we eat sweeter, fattening or saltier food we feel more relaxed.

 

Are you the one?

 

To find out if you are emotional eater then go answering the following questions, if the answer comes yes out of any question then you are an emotional eater.

 

• have you ever found yourself eating something while you are not aware about your action?
• Have you ever felt ashamed after eating?
• Have you found yourself eating alone or at odd places?
• Do you have found yourself eating after having an argument with your spouse?
• Do you feel like eating specific food or have craved for some while you were upset?
• Have food advertisement provoked you to eat out something?
• Have you ever found yourself eating because you need to pass your boring time?
• Does eating makes you feel better when ever you are down or upset?

 

Five common emotional eating cues:

 

Following are mentioned five most common emotional cues provoking an emotional eater to eat out every bit of crisp in the tasty cabinet of her kitchen.

 

1: Anger

 

When an emotional eater finds himself angered at some other person, situation or over himself he eats food – to comfort himself. To release, himself from these hurting wires of anger. They eat to smooth the situation.

 

2: Hopelessness

 

When an emotional eater is confronted by a feeling that this downfall would never end or this frustration has to remain always with me, he eats to make himself justified saying I don’t need to take care about my health and thus can eat every health devastating thing.

 

3: lack of control:

 

emotional eater eats too much when he finds himself in such situation when every things including himself goes beyond his control. He makes himself eat to tell that I have control over something and that is eating.

 

4: frustration

 

when a person achieve something exceptional he deserves and expects appreciation and when he doesn’t get that he eats to “treat” himself.

 

5: Boredom:

 

Emotional eater eats when he has noting to do. It makes him feel that he is indulged with some very interesting thing and this way he kills his free and boring time.