Emotional / Comfort Eating - Are They Connected?

Emotional / Comfort Eating - Are They Connected?

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Emotional and comfort eating are very similar and many people consider them to be one and the same. Effectively, when we feel emotional we comfort eat.

So is there a difference?

You could say that comfort eating is more controlled than emotional eating. Often when people comfort eat they are very conscious of their actions, Choosing to eat ice cream, biscuits, chocolate or savoury stacks to comfort them through a crisis. They will choose the desired treat deliberately as a substitute for whatever it is that is making them feel bad and savour every mouthful, however, like all people who have this relationship with food they will regret it afterwards, often the next day when they get on the scales and see the damage.

Comfort eaters will eat out of boredom, knowingly eating for something to do that passes the time in an enjoyable way.

Emotional eaters tend to eat in more extreme measures, they will eat large quantities of food very fast, often without conscious choice of what they are eating and rarely savour the item. Their regret is often instant and the action compounds the feelings of emotion that led to the binging.

Both comfort and emotional eaters will eat when they are in a positively good mood, especially when celebrating. In this case they are one and the same thing.

Should we be more concerned about Emotional eating than Comfort eating?

No - Neither offer any long term benefit. Both have the same effect on your health and weight. Eating excessively just to improve your mood is wrong on all levels. You will undoubtedly gain weight over a period of time depending on the quantity of food consumed.

The type of food by nature of 'comfort' will most probably be highly refined, sugary junk food that has no health benefits whatsoever, and more likely to have an adverse effect on health. Any weight gain whether you are overweight or within your recommended weight band will make you look and feel larger, then you have the hard slog to remove the gain.

Health is greatly impacted by any form of overeating. Often when we comfort eat out of emotion we will miss a normal nutritional meal to compensate, the problem is that the amount of calories in the wrong foods often outweighs the amount in a normal healthy meal, therefore you are not only taking in excess calories but you are depleting yourself of essential nutrients that allow us to function properly.

The only answer is to stop emotional / comfort eating!

About the Author:
My name is Karen, I have been a successful business woman for many years and I now own and run my own company. After losing 49 pounds / 22 kilos I have written a series of reports documenting my weight loss journey in which time I qualified as a Nutritional Therapist and made an amazing discovery to Fast, Effortless, Permanent, Weight Loss To receive your free reports click on the following link: http://www.freetheslimyou.com



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