Wednesday, May 14, 2014

What The Effects Of Stress Eating

By James Spann


People do not only eat to feel their stomach. Recent nutrition research has shown that emotional feeding is a big challenge that most people have to deal with today. Stress eating refers to taking food to fill negative emotions. Some of these feelings include sadness, loneliness, boredom and anger. The daily activities such as employment can trigger negative feelings that result to emotional eating.

Research has shown that people do not always turn to food because they are hunger. Some people turn to food as a source of comfort, reward or even to seek emotional relief. Feeding because one is done stress does not solve problems in fact it makes one feel worse. After one has taken the food the stressing issues remain and one feels guilty for doing it.

Taking food as a reward, to celebrate or using food as a pick up once in a while is not bad. However, when one start taking food with an objective of coping emotionally with an issue, when you find that every time things are not fine you are opening the refrigerator know that you are eating due to stress. People can also turn to food when they are lonely, exhausted, angry or bored.

Turning to food cannot fill emotional hunger. Overeating may feel good but unfortunately it does not solve anything because the problem that triggered the eating remains. Quite often the end results are worse. One feels bad than before because they unknowingly added unnecessary calories. People often will feel helpless has have messed themselves more. They blame themselves for lacking will power to control their situation.

Stress has been proved to be a major challenge in weight loss. It is vital that people know proper ways of dealing with their problems. Most times when people do not know how to deal with their difficult situations they turn to overeating. Taking food recklessly interferes with efforts to maintain or cut down their weight.

While research on nutrition seems to be developing each day, it is clear that many people are finding it difficult to maintain a healthy diet and keep fit. This is a challenge because even if most people know the kind of food they should take, there are many other factors that affect the type and amount they consume.

People that have not discovered ways to manage their emotions in ways that do not involve food find themselves changing their consumption habits often. Putting one on diet with a view of reducing weight may fail because it only offers logical advice assuming the main problem preventing one from eating right is lack of knowledge which is not true. Nutritional knowledge may not work when one is hijacked with emotions or when a person lacks personal conscious control on food.

There are several strategies one can employ to avoid taking food out of emotional stress. Some of these include setting at least thirty minutes for relaxation every day, physical excises and most importantly connect with people.




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