Stop feeding your feelings

Emotional eating is a habit of regularly consuming large quantities of food, usually fast, greasy or sugary foods, as a result of your feelings, not hunger. 

How to recognize it?

• Emotional hunger appears suddenly and physical "creates" gradually.
• If you suffer from emotional hunger, you eat certain foods such as ice cream, chips, pizza and only that food will satisfy you. If you eat because you're really hungry, you will think about other options and will include healthier food.
• Emotional eating does not stop when your hunger is satisfied and you continue with eating. If you eat because you are really hunger, you'll probably stop entering food when you feel that your hunger disappeared.
• Emotional hunger begins in your head. Physical hunger occurs in the stomach.
• Once your emotional hunger would be "happy", it causes feelings of guilt. If eating is caused by actual physical hunger, there won't be such a problem.

How to stop it?

Although emotional eating is caused by negative emotions, you can control the continuing need for the consumption of large amounts of harmful foods. Here are a few tips.

1. Learn how to make a difference between physical and emotional hunger.
2. Discover what causes your emotional hunger.
3. Get rid of the temptation (ice cream, chocolate, chips)
4. Satisfy your hunger with healthy food.
5. Find an activity that will replace your eating.
6. Do not skip regular meals.
7. Kill your boredom.
8. Reduce your stress.
9. Exercise.
10. Sleep enough.

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