Are Your Diet And Nutrition Affected By Your Emotions?

By Ian Tate


Among all the eating issues, there is one that stands out even though many suffer from the same eating problems. That would be emotional eating. For most people, it is the leading cause of abnormal weight gain, as you end up compensating for your emotional distress by sitting down for a large snack. If you do it often, then you'll find it hard to lose any weight although it's fine if it's only once in a while.

You need to write down your state of mind in your food journal every time you eat something. Find out what you were feeling during that time, whether you were energetic, tired, happy, depressed, or upset. At the time you decided to eat, write down a few words about how you felt because when it's time to analyze your eating behaviors, it can make a lot of difference.

While your emotions are a good starting point, if you want to get even more in depth in your journal, you should go ahead and make that extra effort. What you can do is make a note about what happened during that day. Figure out if the events were good or bad. Did they lead to you eating more than you normally would have?

Your emotions should be analyzed in regard to how often you eat your meals and your hunger levels and once that's done, you can find a pattern to become a more proper eater. Maybe you'll find that you eat more when you're depressed, even if you do not feel that hungry. Or to make you feel even better, you bolster happy days with food.

In any food journal you create, the ultimate goal is being able to track your dietary patterns to see what needs to be changed if you want to lose weight. You should also write about how often you eat, your state of mind, and how much you ate even though the core of your food notebook should be based on what and how much you ate. At first, these facts may seem useless but they can provide you with a number of interesting observations regarding you need to change in order to lose weight.




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