What The Effects Of Stress Eating

By James Spann


Emotional eating refers to taking food with a view it will sooth or reduce your negative feelings. Some of these emotions may include sadness, anger, boredom, stress, fear and loneliness. The daily events that humans participate in can trigger these emotions and result into stress eating among other effects.

People can eat for different reasons. It is unfortunate that some people seek comfort in food whenever they are going through difficult situations. Taking food because you are going through stressful situations does not at all solve problems. After one has eaten they feel worse than before because they have added unnecessary calories.

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.

Current nutrition research has exposed that one of the challenges that people are facing today is maintain their weight. People are aware of what they should eat to live healthy but unfortunately, daily situations affect their consumption patterns. Fatigue, financial constraints, unemployment, and relationship conflicts often cause stress which may affect what one eats.

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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