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 food just because?
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.
Instead of dealing with a problem or emotion, do you hit the pantry?
Using food as a method of coping with emotions can increase your distress, increase your blood pressure, and leave you more down in the dumps then before you at the food.
Do you regularly overeat high carb, high fat foods?
One should be eating 'good for you' food 90% of the time and 'cheat' foods 10% of the time. If these percentages are not in line most of the time, then you need to control your emotional eating.
Educate yourself on how to stop the routine of emotional eating by coming to 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 food just because?
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.
Instead of dealing with a problem or emotion, do you hit the pantry?
Using food as a method of coping with emotions can increase your distress, increase your blood pressure, and leave you more down in the dumps then before you at the food.
Do you regularly overeat high carb, high fat foods?
One should be eating 'good for you' food 90% of the time and 'cheat' foods 10% of the time. If these percentages are not in line most of the time, then you need to control your emotional eating.
Educate yourself on how to stop the routine of emotional eating by coming to 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.
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