What Is Stress Eating And Its Effects

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.

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 people use food once in a while to celebrate, as a reward or pick up is okay, however if one eats with a view that it will make them feel better emotionally about a situation is bad. If you realize every time you go through a difficult situation you are allover food know that you are going through emotional feeding. Other situations that make one turn to food include: loneliness, boredom and fatigue. This habit is not healthy.

Taking food to seek emotional relief is wrong and can never work for anyone. One may enjoy the food but the situation that caused the negative feelings will remain. One feels bad that they cannot deal with their feelings, overpowered by their feeding habits and helpless about the weight gain.

There is a relationship between trauma and weight loss. It is essential that people learn good ways of handling their problems. Immediately one fails to seek healthy ways of dealing their emotions thy turn to overeating. It is sad that it frustrates one weight loss efforts making it harder and harder to control their weight or reduce. The end result is that one feels powerless over their emotions and food.

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.

There is a connection between ability to solve problems and consumption habits. When people are not to solve their issues they may turn to food which leads to weight gain. Putting one on diet at times may not be successful because the assumption is lack of nutrition knowledge is the only cause of weight issues which is not true. Nutritional knowledge alone may not work especially when one is going through emotional challenges.

There are several strategies one can employ to avoid taking food out of emotional stress. Some of these include setting at least thirty minutes for relaxation every day, physical excises and most importantly connect with people.




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