Stress Eating And Its Implications On Health

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.

Turning to food cannot fill emotional hunger. Overeating may feel good but unfortunately it does not solve anything because the problem that triggered the eating remains. Quite often the end results are worse. One feels bad than before because they unknowingly added unnecessary calories. People often will feel helpless has have messed themselves more. They blame themselves for lacking will power to control their situation.

Emotional eating is the main challenge affecting weight loss efforts in many people. It is vital that people cultivate good ways of dealing with their problems. This so because most of the times when people lack a way out of situations they take food to seek for relief. Majority of people who do these often find themselves in problems of weight gain. At the end one feels powerless, defeated and cannot manage their eating patterns anymore.

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.

When people are not aware of proper ways to deal with their emotions they often find themselves struggling to maintain their weight. Putting people on diet may easily fail because the logic assumes that lack of knowledge of good eating habits is the only cause of weight issues. Nutritional knowledge alone may not work especially when one is going through stressful situations.

There are three main tips one can employ to stop emotional eating. These include physical exercise which helps brighten moods. Again ensure that every day you set time for relaxation at least thirty minutes. Also make sure you connect with people, close relationships are important.




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