Weight Gain And Stress Eating

By James Spann


There are many reasons why people eat part from the filling their stomach. Nutrition research has it that people can take food with a view to cope with negative emotions. Stress eating is a big challenge that many people have to deal with today. It refers to feeding with the aim that one will feel better emotionally. Some of these emotions include loneliness, anger, sadness and boredom. These feelings are often evoked by daily activities people engage in such as employment.

There are many other reasons why people eat apart from hunger. Some people take food to seek comfort while other do so to obtain emotional relief. Taking food to cope with difficulties does not help at all solve the situation; it makes the situation get worse. It does not solve any issue, in fact after one has eaten the situation remains the same and one feels bad for overeating. It is vital for people to know what causes stressful situations to help avoid unnecessary food cravings and overeating.

When people use food once in a while to celebrate, as a reward or pick up is okay, however if one eats with a view that it will make them feel better emotionally about a situation is bad. If you realize every time you go through a difficult situation you are allover food know that you are going through emotional feeding. Other situations that make one turn to food include: loneliness, boredom and fatigue. This habit is not healthy.

Taking food to overcome emotions will never work for anyone. One may enjoy it but the situation that evoked the negative emotions will still remain or even get worse. After taking it one feels bad than before; they feel bad that they have added calories and also overpowered by their eating habits. Often the end result is a feeling of guilty due to reckless eating and lack of will power to deal with their situation.

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.

Current nutrition research has exposed that one of the challenges that people are facing today is maintain their weight. People are aware of what they should eat to live healthy but unfortunately, daily situations affect their consumption patterns. Fatigue, financial constraints, unemployment, and relationship conflicts often cause stress which may affect what one eats.

When people are not aware of proper ways to deal with their emotions they often find themselves struggling to maintain their weight. Putting people on diet may easily fail because the logic assumes that lack of knowledge of good eating habits is the only cause of weight issues. Nutritional knowledge alone may not work especially when one is going through stressful situations.

People can adopt various measures to avoid eating due difficult situations. Some of these include building relationships, connecting with people, ensuring you engage in physical activities and taking time to relax




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