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Emotional eating is misunderstood and often unnecessarily demonized. However, emotional eating -- that is, eating to feel good, often termed "compulsive eating" -- isn't the problem. It's emotional overeating and mindless emotional eating that can be both psychologically and physically unhealthy. Emotional eating works as a coping strategy and stress reliever if approached with mindfulness and moderation.
Emotional Eating Is Inevitable
Whether you eat or overeat, whether you eat mindfully or mindlessly, one thing is clear: people only eat what they like to eat. How a particular food tastes is a fundamentally emotional consideration.
Let's face it: your body doesn't give a hoot whether you eat something that tastes good or not so good, as long as the food isn't rotten. Taste is the business of the mind -- a matter of pleasure. Bottom line: Everyone eats for pleasure, so emotional eating is inevitable.
8 hours ago (1:19 PM)
Not exactly. But yes – moderation and self-acceptance is scary to some.
Thank you and be well.
11 hours ago (10:40 AM)
That’s like telling and alcoholic or a drug addict to just use a little.
10 hours ago (11:30 AM)
My Unconscious Mind is Making Me Fat – Part 1 – http://dld.bz/pzbN
9 hours ago (12:33 PM)
There’s a lot of validity to what the author says here. Having broken these patterns over years of practice, I know that few things are so satifsying as a good meal or snack and sometimes nothing feels as good as quantity. Stigmatizing the act of eating, which some self-impose and others externally impose, does no good at all. Even if you lose a good deal of weight, you will likely love to eat – just as people of all shapes and sizes do.
There’s not much connection to an alcoholic addiction, as another poster implied. No one absolutely requires alcohol to live. Also, alcohol is a human discovery/evolution. Food has always been a necessity. Dr. Somov’s approach seems to be a healthy and mindful way of approaching a potentially periolous issue.
8 hours ago (1:12 PM)
I know this is true. I have been practicing mindfulness and right now am learning a lot about my eating. I know I am eating less some of the time. I am not a binger. I feel like I don’t fit in to what most folks discuss about food. I like food and thought I was enjoying my food. But I am not. I am mindlessly eating. Blows my mind. My husband says I am obsessed with food. Although it is him who is eating all evening long, not me. (he is not over weight but eats from after dinner through mdnight. Anyway, my personal research has taught me that I am not paying attention to my meals. I eat and feel like I didn’t. I can go all day without eating and not notice. It’s like I am a zombie. I want something and eat it and don’t really enjoy it. I watch t.v when I eat, I drive when I eat. It’s like I always have to be doing something else. I am addicted to mindless eating…escape. It’s like it triggers dissociation for me.
7 hours ago (2:22 PM)
Emotional eating has been a big part of my fluctuating weight loss over the years. When I’m happy and celebrating, i go out to eat. When dealing with a breakup or workplace stress, i go out to eat. It’s a habit that’s hard to break but there are ways to stop it. I’ve managed to lose 40 pounds in the past year and so far keep it off. How? Replacing my eating habit with a fitness habit. Now I go to the gym to work off stress and/or celebrate — I love the feeling afterward. Replacing bad foods with healthy ones like these helps too: http://www.mensciencemagazine.com/fat-burning-foods-for-men
11 minutes ago (1:19 PM)
Not exactly. But yes – moderation and self-acceptance is scary to some.
Thank you and be well.
3 hours ago (10:40 AM)
That’s like telling and alcoholic or a drug addict to just use a little.
2 hours ago (11:30 AM)
My Unconscious Mind is Making Me Fat – Part 1 – http://dld.bz/pzbN
56 minutes ago (12:33 PM)
There’s a lot of validity to what the author says here. Having broken these patterns over years of practice, I know that few things are so satifsying as a good meal or snack and sometimes nothing feels as good as quantity. Stigmatizing the act of eating, which some self-impose and others externally impose, does no good at all. Even if you lose a good deal of weight, you will likely love to eat – just as people of all shapes and sizes do.
There’s not much connection to an alcoholic addiction, as another poster implied. No one absolutely requires alcohol to live. Also, alcohol is a human discovery/evolution. Food has always been a necessity. Dr. Somov’s approach seems to be a healthy and mindful way of approaching a potentially periolous issue.
17 minutes ago (1:12 PM)
I know this is true. I have been practicing mindfulness and right now am learning a lot about my eating. I know I am eating less some of the time. I am not a binger. I feel like I don’t fit in to what most folks discuss about food. I like food and thought I was enjoying my food. But I am not. I am mindlessly eating. Blows my mind. My husband says I am obsessed with food. Although it is him who is eating all evening long, not me. (he is not over weight but eats from after dinner through mdnight. Anyway, my personal research has taught me that I am not paying attention to my meals. I eat and feel like I didn’t. I can go all day without eating and not notice. It’s like I am a zombie. I want something and eat it and don’t really enjoy it. I watch t.v when I eat, I drive when I eat. It’s like I always have to be doing something else. I am addicted to mindless eating…escape. It’s like it triggers dissociation for me.