I love to eat, it’s a small pleasure in my life.  What can be a problem though is overeating for comfort which is really known as emotional eating disorder.  Overeating for me ends with weight gain and disappointment in myself.

Emotional eating disorder starts in your head before the actual act of eating begins.  Many of us eat when we are stressed and the opposite can be true too that we don’t eat at that time too.  This is not good for your overall health though.

Our lives don’t run on an even keel, we have ups and downs which are natural.  it’s how we deal with the bad days.  If we turn to food it could be as comfort to get us through and is a coping mechanism.

The problem we may find with emotional eating is that we are avoiding the solutions to our problems by hiding behind the food. Of course if the problem is a ‘one off’ situation it probably wont effect us for long but emotional eating disorder normally is a long term thing.

How can you tell if you are an emotional eater?  Look at the following comfort foods:

• High fat foods like fried foods
• High carbohydrate foods like  pasta dishes
• Sugary foods like cake and donuts

If you look for these types of foods then you may be an emotional eater.  Acknowledge that and you are on your way to overcoming the problem.

You may feel shame and guilt because you know it is ruining your health and sometimes the feeling that there is no way out compounds these feelings.  There is a way though and if you are serious about beating it then you can.

You may wish to seek help professionally from counseling because emotional eating disorder is really not about your eating habits but getting control of your emotions.

Support from your family and friends also can help you to see you are not facing this problem alone.  They can help you identify triggers.  You can try visualization techniques and relaxation to help you see your problems realistically.  This will help you see food as nutrition instead of an emotional crutch.

Stress management is very important in your strategy to stop emotional eating disorder so keeping your stress levels down will help you from regressing.  Finding new ways to deal with problems will replace this dependence on food and you will feel good at achieving new solutions to your problems.

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Tags: emotional eating disorder, Overeating