Emotional Eating And How To Stop It
Do you eat to feel better or relieve stress? These steps can help you stop emotional eating, fight cravings, identify your triggers and find satisfying ways to feed your feelings. Support yourself with healthy lifestyle habits to get through difficult times without emotional eating.
How to stop eating emotionally ?
Keep a food diary for accountability.
Write down how you're feeling when you eat and how hungry you are.
Meditate.
Journal your feelings so you can understand what is driving you to eat.
Get support.
Fight boredom eating by distracting yourself. Set eating timers for the precise time you want to eat, go for walks, draw, knit whatever.
Remove triggering foods from the immediate environment.
Stay hydrated.
Eat to satiation at meals.
Eat more protein to fill yourself up.
Have meals and snacks planned so you are less tempted to unconsciously pick.
Keep a mental note of trigger moments and times and plan ahead.
Understand emotional eating will not be quelled with food.
Food may help ease emotions initially, but addressing the feelings behind the hunger is important in the long run. Work towards fining alternative ways to deal with stress, like exercise, peer support and try practicing mindful eating.
Written by Alexandra.
Edited by Deepa
