Emotional eating is a trap that anyone can fall into. If you find yourself eating when you aren’t hungry, it might not be because of boredom. You may be stressed or lonely. A lack of affection, love, and quiet time can drive even the strongest people to indulge in emotional eating.

How to Prevent Emotional Eating

While these tips won’t deal with the emotion behind your eating, it may help you reassess the way you think about eating.

Are you really hungry?

Close your eyes and rate your hunger, using a scale of 1 to 10. Unless you’re hitting a seven or an eight, you shouldn’t eat. Instead drink a glass of water. Ask your why you were feeling hungry. What is it that you’re craving, because if its comfort food there’s likely an emotional reason driving it. Continue reading →

Emotional eating can be one of the biggest elements of weight gain. Eating out of stress or boredom instead of hunger has become very common in American culture.

If we’re bored, tired, mad, and sad or elated we celebrate with food. Sometimes these celebrations cause us to eat even when we are not hungry.

If you find yourself eating for comfort instead of hunger here are 5 steps you can take to avoid emotional eating.

1 – It’s OK to Be Uncomfortable

One of the reasons that people eat when they’re emotional is because they are uncomfortable. Uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, fear, anger, and boredom often lead people to eat when they are not actually hungry. Continue reading →