Overeating due to stress will make you gain more weight! Nutritionist: 5 tips to avoid emotional eating and avoid obesity

Faced with the epidemic and the high pressure of work and life, many people tend to relieve stress through "eating". Whether it is overeating or eating fast and eating a lot, it is an unhealthy phenomenon. For many people who want to lose weight, the biggest worry is falling into this emotional eating trap, which makes it more difficult to control weight and may even make them gain more weight. Nutritionists share 5 tips to avoid emotional eating. First learn to love yourself and deal with negative emotions, so as to avoid binge eating caused by stress, stay away from obesity, and be more effective in weight control.

Many people return home after get off work to relieve themselves of their fatigue. It is already 9 o'clock in the evening, but they are still holding chicken fillets and playing with their mobile phones. This unhealthy way of eating often happens in daily life. Nutritionist Lin Licen quoted a sentence from the book "Want to be Thin" "Say goodbye to fat mentality and embrace thin life", which left a deep impression on her. She shared her experience as a chubby girl in high school. She said that obese people often lack self-confidence, but they don’t realize that they should first embrace and love their current selves so that they will have enough strength to face the future. If they hate their current obese selves, they tend to deal with emotional problems negatively, overeat at will, etc.

Often, people do not know how to eat a balanced diet during the weight loss process. This may be because it is difficult to execute technically, or it may be more of a psychological problem, that is, emotional eating. What exactly is emotional eating? Come check and see if you have any of the 7 common types of emotional eating?

Examining 7 Types of Emotional Eating

1. Eating a lot even though you are not hungry.

2. Often eat too much and feel uncomfortable in the stomach.

3. Often hide away alone and eat (this does not count if you live in a different place).

4. Eat much faster than the average person.

5. Consume a large amount of food in a short period of time.

6. After eating, you begin to experience negative emotions, such as anxiety, regret, depression, self-loathing, etc.

7. When eating, I often feel that I cannot stop and have poor control over the food in front of me.

If so, you may have a problem with emotional eating, which can easily hinder your weight loss efforts and even make you discouraged, causing you to binge eat again, creating a vicious cycle.

Nutritionist Lin Licen pointed out that emotional eating is often caused by "negative" emotions. A very common situation is that when facing stress and anxiety, we easily lose control of food and tend to consume a lot of junk food. We want to lose weight, but we get fatter and fatter.

As for how to manage your negative emotions and reduce emotional eating? Nutritionist Lin Licen has summarized the following 5 key questions. She hopes that everyone can calm down and think about them before "eating". Asking yourself these questions can help you reduce the chances of emotional eating!

Be aware of and record your emotions while eating, and you will find it very interesting. You will also gradually understand that you hope to provide your body's cells with adequate nutrients through a balanced and healthy diet, and gradually you will no longer want to eat junk food.

Learn to eat right, 5 tips to avoid emotional eating

Tip 1/Think before eating: Am I really hungry now? Still full but craving food? How full are you now?

Purpose of thinking: It allows you to focus on the location of your stomach instead of your mouth.

Tip 2/Eating speed: Am I eating fast or slow now? Is it eating voraciously?

Purpose of thinking: I hope that I can focus on the speed of picking up food with my hands and the speed of swallowing.

Tip 3/Dine with: Am I dining alone now? Or dining with a group of friends?

The purpose of thinking: to avoid hiding yourself and eating a lot, so that you can focus on the environment around you and distract yourself.

Tip 4/Control: How much control do I have when it comes to the food in front of me? If I were to stop eating now, would I be able to control myself?

Purpose of thinking: This question is to focus your attention on how you get along with the food in front of you.

Tip 5/Post-meal feelings: What do I think after I finish my meal? What kind of emotions will arise? Will you regret it? Do you feel anxious or guilty?

Purpose of thinking: This question is to allow you to focus on the future rather than the present moment of eating.

You will find it very interesting to be aware of and record your emotions while eating. You will also gradually understand that you hope to provide your body's cells with adequate nutrients through a balanced and healthy diet. Gradually, you will no longer want to eat junk food because you will feel satisfied in your heart. You no longer need to soothe your soul through junk food. Your soul can be satisfied through exercise, eating healthy food, or other stress-relieving activities.

Regarding obesity caused by emotional stress, nutritionist Lin Licen reminds you to constantly encourage yourself while maintaining your body shape, and feel from the bottom of your heart that you are great and beautiful, because that is a cycle of positive energy. You will be more willing to change in order to make yourself better, and it will be a lasting change, rather than a short-term effect of fishing for three days and drying the net for four days.

Nutritionist Lin Licen's Little World