The Emotional Eater On The Block
By Katherine Heffernon
They are not easy to pick out of a crowd, that mom you see at preschool drop-off every day looks normal, sounds normal, and acts normal but in the privacy of her own home she stuffs down the food and washes it down with 'mommy juice.' Sound shockingly familiar? If not, it probably does to your neighbor and you don't even know it.
The domestic life which most of us live today is filled with people who feel by themselves, unhappy, melancholy, uptight, over-anxious, exhausted, and disheartened. People either deal with these feels in a healthy way like calling your best friend or exercising or unhealthy like stuffing yourself with food to feel better.
For the people who consume food to feel satisfied, the road is lonesome. They consume food away from others because they are embarrassed, don't feel positive about themselves, and the problems which made them eat in the first place are still there when they are finished. Look at the statements below, if they are familiar to you then you are probably an emotional eater.
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Physical hunger is patient and is open to all options (like vegetables and hummus) while emotional hunger cannot weight and MUST have a bag of chips immediately even if you just finished lunch.
Do you go to the pantry instead of dealing with your issues?
Numbing yourself with food rather than dealing with your emotions can actually increase stress, raise your blood pressure, and leave you feeling more depressed than when you started.
Do you eat too many foods with high fat and carbohydrates?
You should be making 'healthy' food choices 90% of the time and 10% of the time choosing 'fun' foods. If this equation is out of whack on a regular basis, then it's time to take control of your emotional eating.
Learn how to break the HABIT of emotional eating by visiting EmotionalEatingMom.com.
The domestic life which most of us live today is filled with people who feel by themselves, unhappy, melancholy, uptight, over-anxious, exhausted, and disheartened. People either deal with these feels in a healthy way like calling your best friend or exercising or unhealthy like stuffing yourself with food to feel better.
For the people who consume food to feel satisfied, the road is lonesome. They consume food away from others because they are embarrassed, don't feel positive about themselves, and the problems which made them eat in the first place are still there when they are finished. Look at the statements below, if they are familiar to you then you are probably an emotional eater.
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Physical hunger is patient and is open to all options (like vegetables and hummus) while emotional hunger cannot weight and MUST have a bag of chips immediately even if you just finished lunch.
Do you go to the pantry instead of dealing with your issues?
Numbing yourself with food rather than dealing with your emotions can actually increase stress, raise your blood pressure, and leave you feeling more depressed than when you started.
Do you eat too many foods with high fat and carbohydrates?
You should be making 'healthy' food choices 90% of the time and 10% of the time choosing 'fun' foods. If this equation is out of whack on a regular basis, then it's time to take control of your emotional eating.
Learn how to break the HABIT of emotional eating by visiting EmotionalEatingMom.com.
About the Author:
Learn more about Emotional Eating. Stop by Katherine Heffernon's site where you can find out all about How To Identify Food Triggers and how this can help.