Monday, May 19, 2014

The Link Between Stress Eating And Weight

By James Spann


There are many reasons why people eat part from the filling their stomach. Nutrition research has it that people can take food with a view to cope with negative emotions. Stress eating is a big challenge that many people have to deal with today. It refers to feeding with the aim that one will feel better emotionally. Some of these emotions include loneliness, anger, sadness and boredom. These feelings are often evoked by daily activities people engage in such as employment.

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.

When food is used as a reward or to celebrate is not bad. However, if people take it with a view it will help them cope with a situation or bring emotional relief is wrong. One of the best ways to know that you are taking food because of difficulties is the habit of turning to food every time you are going through a challenging moment. Boredom, fatigue and loneliness can cause one turn to food. This habit is not healthy and often frustrates effort to reduce on weight which is a major trend today.

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.

Emotional eating is the main challenge affecting weight loss efforts in many people. It is vital that people cultivate good ways of dealing with their problems. This so because most of the times when people lack a way out of situations they take food to seek for relief. Majority of people who do these often find themselves in problems of weight gain. At the end one feels powerless, defeated and cannot manage their eating patterns anymore.

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.

People can adopt various measures to avoid eating due difficult situations. Some of these include building relationships, connecting with people, ensuring you engage in physical activities and taking time to relax




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