Are you eating emotionally?

Is your first reaction at feeling anxiety to reach for the fridge? Does sadness make you want to eat just a bit of that cake? If this is the case then you are eating emotionally which can ruin your diet chart. Whether it is sadness, grief, happiness, joy, anger, frustration… each and every emotion has its starting point, peak and then end. We associate emotional eating with inability to control our emotions. But, you can! Let the emotion run its course and you will soon notice relief.

To start overcoming emotional eating, focus on making small and gradual changes. Setting a goal that is small enough to achieve yet big enough to keep you motivated can make a whole lot of difference. If your objective is to start breaking free from emotional eating, you might set yourself up for a failure. If you rephrase the goal and state it so that "Today, I will eat all 3 meals at the table," you will notice that the goal is realistic as well as measurable, the latter giving you a sense of accomplishment. Also stop mindless eating. Mindless eating is the menace of modern day society. There is not enough time in the day to sit down and eat. Or are we fooling ourselves? The most important question you can ask yourself is: "Am I hungry?" If the answer is yes, take time to sit down at the table and eat the meal making sure you slow down and take time with each bite. If the answer is "no," there is no much of a dilemma there.  

 So what say ready to break free from emotional eating?