Tips to Avoid Emotional Eating WHEN GUILTY PLEASURES GO BAD
it comes to dealing with her own emotional eating, Susan Albers, a psychologist at the Cleveland Clinic and author of the New York Times best-seller “Eating Mindfully,” states, “I say to myself, ‘What is going to make me feel better for longer than 3 minutes?’ Usually, it’s not a cookie.” Don’t skip meals. This is important for maintaining good nutrition as a whole, but eating right can also help with stress management. If you skip breakfast, then get stressed out at around 11 a.m., it’s easier to justify grabbing that doughnut if you’re hungry. Plus, skipping meals can cause your blood sugar to drop, leading to sugar cravings. Give yourself a fighting chance against emotional eating by planning healthy meals and sticking to them. A piece of cake for dessert or buttery popcorn at the movies is fine every now and then, but we shouldn’t let our favorite snacks become coping mechanisms. When you cut out emotional eating, your physical and emotional health will thank you.
TESTIMONIALS At October Kitchen, our mission is to provide delicious, nourishing meals. In doing so, we hope to help our clients lead healthy and independent lives. Nothing fills our hearts more than knowing we’ve succeeded in our goal when we hear such kind words from our clients. “I have been beyond pleased with October Kitchen — the food is excellent, the options are always abundant, the prices are very reasonable and the customer service is on-point. Being able to come home from a long day in the office to a healthy dinner that just needs to be heated up — not to mention, I’m a vegetarian and my husband is not, so two separate meals — is the perfect solution to our busy lives. We actually look forward to dinnertime now! (And the best chocolate chip cookies ever!)” –Aradia F. There are a lot of ways to deal with stressful situations or negative emotions. Some people engage in hobbies like painting or reading a good book. Some people will go for a jog or practice meditation. Some people call their spouse or best friend. And some people eat. Okay, a lot of people eat. Most of us are guilty of emotional eating at some point in time, but this is a truly unhealthy way to deal with our stress. If you struggle with emotional eating, here are some things you can do to stop the bad habit. Only eat when you’re hungry. The biggest problem with emotional eating is that you aren’t really hungry. So, you consume a bunch of calories your body doesn’t need and it gets stored away as fat. Curb emotional eating by only visiting the fridge when it’s lunchtime and not just because you’re bored or craving sugar. Find a long-term solution. Research shows that the brief satisfaction we get from emotional eating only lasts three minutes. Then we feel unhappy again and reach for another sugary snack. When
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