Learning Your Emotional Eating
Emotional eating patterns can be learned: a child who always gives a sweet after a major achievement can grow using the candy as a reward for work well done. A child receiving stop mourn biscuits can learn to associate the comfort cookies.
It is not easy to unlearn the patterns of emotional eating. But it is possible. And the first step is to become aware of what is happening.
We all have our own comfort food. Curiously, may vary depending on mood and gender. One study found that happy people seem to prefer eating foods like pizza, while sad people prefer ice cream and cookies. Boring people are dying to eat salty and crunchy, like chips. The researchers also found that men seem to prefer hot and homemade comfort food, like steaks and stews. Women prefer chocolate and ice cream.
To some extent, we’re all emotional eaters. But some people eat emotionally can be a real problem, by causing severe weight gain or cycles of draconian diets. The problem of emotional eating is that just as the pleasure of eating, emotions that trigger it remain. And you often feel worse for having eaten the amount or type of food you’ve eaten. So much help to know the difference between physical hunger and hunger purely emotional.