Emotional Eater - How Do You Know?

Emotional Eater - How Do You Know?

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Emotional eating is very common in today's society. Emotional eaters overeat to compensate for the day-to-day pressures of modern living. Food has become a way of helping us to balance our feelings and whilst in moderation this is not a bad thing, it has an adverse effect on our health if taken to extreme.

Identifying if you are an emotional eater is essential, as ignoring this leads to obesity and other health related illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer.

Having a bad relationship with food also leads to an imbalance of nutrients and common ailments such as IBS, lethargy and constipation.

So how do you know if you are an emotional eater?

To find out whether you are an emotional eater, answer the following questions.

- Do you reach for food at the first sign of stress

- Do you overeat when you are sad

- Do you eat from the fridge between meals whilst thinking of something else

- Do you reach for a snack when angry

- Do you devour a bar of chocolate in seconds to calm yourself down

- When something good happens do you celebrate by eating

- When socialising at your home, do you more often than not offer food

- Is food the first thing that comes to mind when you are emotional

- Is food on your mind most of the time

- Do you see food as a form of energy to survive or as comforter

If you have answered yes to one of these questions you are probably an emotional eater.

If you have answered yes to 3 or more you are definitely an emotional eater.

It is possible to break the habit of emotional eating. Awareness is the key to taking the first step into gaining control.

Stepping back as you go to eat something and asking yourself if you are hungry or emotional. Acknowledging that eating out of emotion does not solve the underlying issue, but masks it for a short period. Realising that you have compounded your problem by using food as your crouch. Understanding the health implications of overeating.

Noticing the signs of emotional eating will help you to take the initiative to make small changes that will help you to break the link between food and emotion.

End emotional eating and you will lose weight, improve health and gain the feeling of wellbeing.

Accepting the signs, Implementing change and taking each day as it comes good or bad is essential to your success!


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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