Emotional Eating
Talking about cakes... at some emotional level you have made the association that food makes you feel safe, secure, loved, accepted, comfortable, protected, rewarded, or reduces stress and boredom.
In some way your current weight is emotionally driven.
I bet your problems with food have to do with emotions like relieving stress, sadness, anger and other bad feelings. Do you think too much about food? Do you associate familiar events with foods? Do you eat when you had a bad day? etc? Well this is called "emotional eating".
Emotional eating triggers include anxiety, fear, worry, anger, sadness, disappointment and boredom. Emotional eating helps you numb out negative emotions so that you can avoid them, at least temporarily. If you are hungry and you just ate an hour ago, you are just tired or you are eating emotionally, do something that makes you feel better immediately, a hobby, a sport, talk or chat with somebody, call someone on the phone, watch TV a movie or series, listen music, read, etc. Do something useful, anything you can, but don't stuff your mouth with more food if you just ate!
Why would you rather eat than face your emotions? It's simple. Facing the emotions is tough. It will often require you to make some tough decisions. Here is what you have to do every time you suspect you are having emotional eating episodes.
1) Find Your Emotional Eating Triggers
An emotional eating trigger for you might be any event, circumstance or person in your life that stirs up a certain emotion inside of you which encourages you to eat for comfort. It is very simple to find your emotional eating triggers. Just think about the last 2 or 3 times you engaged in overeating or binge eating. Think about the events, circumstances, or thoughts that lead up to the overeating. What happened the few hours before you overate? What was going through your head? Why you had this episode? Analyze it and learn from it, learn how to eliminate it.
2) Write It Down
Start writing down everything you can recall. You'll start noticing some of the things in your life that are stressing you out, the things you're trying to avoid dealing with.
Some common stressors could be a certain relationship or friendship, your school or job, your family, or a health condition you might have. If you regularly start reflecting on your overeating episodes you will start seeing patterns.
You know that overeating is bad for you. It makes you gain weight, and leaves you feeling depressed. You've probably always wondered why you still overeat or binge eat when you know that it's bad for you. Well it's because you never thought of the benefits of being in shape and good health.
You must control and master your emotions about past and present events and your thoughts about the future. Emotions about others and emotional angers. Do more productive stuff and carry less emotional baggage.
Remember, the only way to eliminate failure is to learn from it. Your decisions about what and when to eat or exercise are just thoughts, and the most powerful thought wins, you decide:
-I will go to the gym! (to look nice)
-I will eat controlled! (to take care of my health and body), etc
In what you focus and think the most... that happens and expands, so you decide your future.
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