You took the mini test and you are an emotional eater. What next. One of the first things to understand is the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger.
Physical hunger comes on slowly. Your stomach might growl and it has probably been 4 to 5 hours since you last ate. You might feel a little light headed and you would be willing to eat anything to cut your hunger. If you had an apple, you would happily devour it.
Emotional hunger on the other hand usually comes on quickly regardless of when you last ate and a particular food usually "sounds good." It is something that you use to feel better emotionally rather than physically. It is your comfort. Most of us would be looking for salty foods like chips, cake or cookies, something creamy like ice cream or there's CHOCOLATE!
My ultimate comfort food is Trader Joes Organic Tortilla Chips. Take a few minutes to ID your comfort foods. My comfort foods are __________ ,__________ ,__________!
Most of eat 80% of the time when we are not physically hungry. YIKES!
Once you have identified that you are emotionally hungry, you can ask yourself what you are feeling and develop other options besides eating.
Diets Don't Work, but there are simple things we can do that help us to eat healthy and lose weight. We can eliminate emotional eating, foil our food triggers, and end mindless eating for good. There are many helpful ideas and hope abounds.
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