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 suburban life most people live these days is filled with women (and men) who feel alone, depressed, sad, anxious, stressed, sleep deprived, and unfulfilled. The way someone deals with these emotions is either healthy like talking to a good friend or going for a run or it's unhealthy like eating too much to fill the void.
For the men and women who devour food to feel better, it's a friendless journey. You gorge on food in the privacy of your own home, don't love yourself, and the reasons you started eating in the first place haven't gone anywhere when you are done eating. Do the questions below hit a chord in you? If so then you probably have a problem with emotional eating.
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Physical hunger can wait until food is available and it doesn't care if the food is healthy or unhealthy. Emotional hunger is immediate and impulsive and usually craves specific unhealthy foods.
Do you go to the pantry instead of dealing with your issues?
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?
You should be making 'healthy' food choices 90% of the time and 10% of the time choosing 'fun' foods. If this equation is out of whack on a regular basis, then it's time to take control of your emotional eating.
Educate yourself on how to stop the routine of emotional eating by coming to EmotionalEatingMom.com.
The suburban life most people live these days is filled with women (and men) who feel alone, depressed, sad, anxious, stressed, sleep deprived, and unfulfilled. The way someone deals with these emotions is either healthy like talking to a good friend or going for a run or it's unhealthy like eating too much to fill the void.
For the men and women who devour food to feel better, it's a friendless journey. You gorge on food in the privacy of your own home, don't love yourself, and the reasons you started eating in the first place haven't gone anywhere when you are done eating. Do the questions below hit a chord in you? If so then you probably have a problem with emotional eating.
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Physical hunger can wait until food is available and it doesn't care if the food is healthy or unhealthy. Emotional hunger is immediate and impulsive and usually craves specific unhealthy foods.
Do you go to the pantry instead of dealing with your issues?
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?
You should be making 'healthy' food choices 90% of the time and 10% of the time choosing 'fun' foods. If this equation is out of whack on a regular basis, then it's time to take control of your emotional eating.
Educate yourself on how to stop the routine of emotional eating by coming to EmotionalEatingMom.com.
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