Friday, May 23, 2014

Factors That Cause Stress Eating

By James Spann


People do not only eat to feel their stomach. Recent nutrition research has shown that emotional feeding is a big challenge that most people have to deal with today. Stress eating refers to taking food to fill negative emotions. Some of these feelings include sadness, loneliness, boredom and anger. The daily activities such as employment can trigger negative feelings that result to emotional eating.

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 food is used as a reward or to celebrate is not bad. However, if people take it with a view it will help them cope with a situation or bring emotional relief is wrong. One of the best ways to know that you are taking food because of difficulties is the habit of turning to food every time you are going through a challenging moment. Boredom, fatigue and loneliness can cause one turn to food. This habit is not healthy and often frustrates effort to reduce on weight which is a major trend today.

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.

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.

While research on nutrition seems to be developing each day, it is clear that many people are finding it difficult to maintain a healthy diet and keep fit. This is a challenge because even if most people know the kind of food they should take, there are many other factors that affect the type and amount they consume.

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.

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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