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I am a frequent victim of wearisomeness eating, and I have a feeling I can’t be the only one.
So, I decided to do a bit of research and share what I found; with luck, it may help you too.
Okay, lanugo to business.
What fuels emotional eating?
It sounds self-explanatory, but it’s really a bit increasingly ramified than that.
We often tideway eating as increasingly than just fueling our body, it’s a form of therapy. We eat when we’re stressed and upset and—typically—when we’re happy and celebrating.
And—if you’re at all like me—you’ll reservation yourself eating of sheer wearisomeness (and plane worse, you’ll reservation AFTER you’ve finished eating lol god damn that shit sucks).
But there really is a difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger; the trick is how to tell the difference.
Here’s what some guidance I found from the Cleveland Clinic on what we can do to help ourselves.
Before eating, “interview” your hunger
From what the experts say, it’s really important surpassing eating that we take some time to reflect on our emotions at that time.
Are we unquestionably hungry? Maybe just upset? Trying to fill some time?
These sound like trivial questions, and maybe they are. But I’m guessing that just taking an zippy effort to think well-nigh these questions may make a significant difference.
However, the second part of that interview process is identifying alternatives. If our desire to eat really is fueled by emotions rather than true hunger, we have to find a variegated way to alleviates that feeling.
Stressed? Try a quick walk outside. Bored? Find a tv show, book, or something else to engage your brain. And so on and so forth, you get the picture.
Get familiar with hunger patterns
I’ll be the first to shoehorn that I commonly find myself getting “hangry,” and from what I’ve read, I’m not the only one lol.
Often times, we take the “wait and see” tideway when it comes to hunger.
We wait and wait and the next thing we know, we’re starving, angry, and shoving the first thing we get our hands on into our gullet.
But, we can overcome that tideway by getting familiar with our hunger patterns.
NOTE: Hunger patterns are unique to each person, so try not to judge your hunger patterns versus your friends, family, spouse, or anyone else.
Tuning into our persons clues well-nigh when we’re hungry allows us to take proactive action.
For example, if you realize that you get hungry virtually 10 a.m. everyday, maybe you need to eat an older lunch than other people or pack a snack to hold you over until the lunch hour arrives.
Being cognizant of our hunger patterns is one of the weightier ways we can make sure that our hunger doesn’t tenancy us.
Hopefully, some of that info was helpful. But either way, I encourage you to do some research of your fun to find out what may work weightier for you!
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