Are you eating the wrong food during the difficult times?

Do you think eating will hide your problems?

Maybe its stress making you hungry? 

The feelings of stress and depression can be overwhelming, and it can affect people in different ways.

One frequent way people get affected is by indulging in emotional eating. Emotional eating is the practice of feeding on excess and/or unhealthy food to help supress negative feelings, which in truth doesn’t help you.

Yes, it might help you feel better for now, but you end up with your overall problems unsolved.

Do you find yourself going to the cupboard or buying food to eat when you’re feeling down all because you think it makes you feel a little better? That’s emotional eating right there.

However, you’re not alone so don’t feel ashamed as we are all guilty of eating when we feel down or sad.

It’s just like walking past a shop, you see something nice inside the shop you go in and admire it and then buy it. It’s the same with food, you walk past a cake shop, and you sight a tantalising display of cakes and your tummy is dancing because it wants that cake.

The pull is even stronger when you believe that having the cake(s) will make you feel better after a bad day or experience.

Many people experience emotional eating, and that experience can become more frequent without them realising it. It’s like a cycle – you feel bad or emotional in anyway, your mind automatically turns to food.

When emotional eating happens frequently or becomes the main way a person deals with their emotions, then their life, health, happiness and self-confidence can be negatively affected if they’re not careful

So why do we eat when we feel down?

 When people feel down they turn to food and don’t realize what they are eating in an effort to feel better, they feel better because it temporarily soothes the negative emotions or experiences that they are having such as:

• stress
• busy lifestyle
• fear
• being bullied
• boredom
• relationships
• family
• kids
• sadness
• And loneliness

Having junk foods such as bowls of ice-cream, packets of chocolate bars or bowls of chips that are more calories filled than healthy nutrients shouldn’t be your resort to finding happiness. It doesn’t help your emotional feelings, neither does it take away nor solve the issues.

Why do we need to eat healthy when we are feeling down? 

Eating more food to hide your emotional feelings will not help you to heal, it will only cause weight gain.

You will also begin to feel tired, sluggish, your skin loses its sheen and glow, and you may even find it difficult to sleep. All of these compound as you begin to feel lower in yourself, and then because it’s a cycle, you’ll eat more without thinking about what you’re doing.

Eating healthy should be part of your daily routine combined with active exercises.

In case you’ve observed that you eat the wrong food because of your busy and stressful lifestyle and due to the absence of the spare time to cook up something healthy, it is time you paid more attention to your health by rescheduling your day create time.

Living a busy lifestyle and not taking time out to cook up something healthy can cause depression because you will start to eat the fast food selection and visit restaurants more.

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, 

you tend to think

you have been buried.

What if you’ve been planted?

– Written by Unknown source

What you can do to STOP yourself from eating when you feel down 

Create a new habit of doing these things this will help you to enjoy life a little more

• taking yourself for a walk in nature, a park, a beach
• book in for a massage
• ride a push bike,
• watch funny movies and laugh out loud
• listen to music
• join a yoga class or something that is calming
• read an interesting book

These are just a few tips that will help soothe your unhappy mood, you can find more and develop new hobbies.

So whenever you are feeling down and food suddenly comes to your mind – say one of the following sentences. Starting with “I will …

• go for a walk
• book in for a massage
• find a funny movie to watch
• browse through soft music
• find a class to join
• buy a book to read

When you do one or more of these activities it will lift your mood and you’ll feel better.

If you’re not sure how to make some healthy easy meals why not try ‘Done for You Meal Plans’ it’s a great way to organise your meals and put this into a routine. It is a fantastic book that shows what you need to do step by step.

You can grab your copy right here 

The ‘Done for you Meal Plans’ is written by Zoe Bray Cotton who is very professional yoga teacher she is very well known around the world and has helped thousands of women all over the globe.

Women have received great results using Zoe’s YogaBurn the best part is you can do this in the comfort of your home.

Take a moment and learn more about yogaburn below.

 

I would love to hear how you are doing and how this post has been able to help you. So please share your experiences in the comment section just scroll down you will see where you can place your comment.