Emotional eating is a poorly understood condition for two important reasons. First, theories of weight and eating have either oversimplified the role of anxiety or downplayed the role of emotions in overeating. And second, emotional eating is a way of coping with emotional excesses and the reasons why are usually varied and complex. Emotional eating is eating in response to negative feelings, instead of physiological hunger. For example, stress, boredom, loneliness, anger and depression often lead to unwanted eating. Being overweight is seen as a symptom of other problems. It is very easy to get into the emotional eating habit. in that if we feel emotional discomfort, we can teach ourselves to eat to stuff the feeling or diminish the intensity. Emotional eating is one of the biggest threats to every dieter, because as the level of sugar in the blood drops some time after a meal and hunger sets in, the body requires more food. Exercise can be a satisfying alternative if you are lucky enough to be one of the people with the self control to substitute one for the other. Exercise can provide the same in-control feelings that food does. You can decide which exercises you do, where you exercise and for how long, and the list goes on. Exercise and eating healthy to control your diet is in your immediate control. Yet many people find it so difficult to translate the intention of controlling our weight into a new habit of eating healthy. Emotional hunger may also mask itself as genuine hunger, however it comes on as cravings and usually only lasts a few minutes. So a good way to identify genuine hunger is to wait a few minutes and see if your craving is still present. Emotional eating urges come on suddenly, involve cravings for specific foods, and often dont go away even when youve eaten. And if you feel guilty after eating, chances are it was emotional eating. Emotions are important, and over-eating can be a symptom someone is not properly dealing with their emotions. A therapist can help you to sort through your emotional eating impulses and the underlying causes for this type of behavior, and can help you develop coping strategies as well. You should also consult a nutritionist, who can help to provide a healthy diet and exercise plan. If you find that you struggle with weight loss, identifying an emotional eating disorder can be the most crucial step, since surgeries such as gastric banding cannot alleviate psychological problems, and may be less effective if these problems are not resolved.
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