Nov 1, 2010 Helen Stewart
Emotional Overeating triggers - Torsten Manger
In the battle of the bulge, identifying eating triggers can mean the difference between winning or losing the battle. Emotional overeating can not be overcome by restricting the daily caloric intake alone, the root cause of the emotional overeating needs to be identified and a workable solution attained. Find your emotional overeating category listed below and discover your own overeating triggers and their solutions.
All-Or-Nothing Triggers for Emotional Overeating
An all-or-nothing emotional overeater feels like one splurge at a meal or at snack time ruined the entire day of a healthy diet and responds by eating anything desired for the remainder of that day.
The solution to get over the all-or-nothing emotional overeating trigger is to plan ahead and have structure in your daily meals and snacks. An all-or-nothing emotional overeater can stick with a daily structured diet plan better than an end result goal. If you are this type of emotional overeater, when you do slip up, you don’t have to wait until the following day to get back on the diet track; increase exercise to burn the extra calories and improve mood.
Comfort Craver Emotional Overeater Triggers and Solutions
You eat certain foods because they remind you of a happier time in your life and you gravitate towards foods that make you feel peaceful. Stress is a trigger for the comfort craver emotional overeater.
Solutions for comfort craving emotional overeaters is to reduce stress through lifestyle changes, which include exercise to reduce stress and help you feel better and searching for lower calorie foods to replace high calorie comfort foods. Example- if macaroni and cheese is one of the comfort foods you crave, find a recipe for a lower calorie version of macaroni and cheese that will satisfy the craving.
The Social Emotional Overeater
Do you eat more when around friends or in any type of social atmosphere than you would eat if you were alone? If so, you are a social eater and tend to overeat in social settings to make you feel like part of the group, part of the fun and to not upset anyone by passing on foods served at the gathering.
The solution to combat the social overeating trigger is to engage in social activities with friends that do not include food, such as participating in sports together, taking a class together or exercising together. Any social activity that does not center around food will help the social emotional overeater stick with a healthy diet plan.
Emotional overeating can be the undoing of a well intentioned diet plan. Identify the emotional overeating triggers and implement an escape plan solution to help you stay on track with a healthy eating diet plan.
Source:
Emotional Eating on MedicineNet.com article accessed Nov.1, 2010
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