How To End Emotional Eating

By Rachel Jenkins

To begin with, let's identify what emotional eating actually is.

It's eating when a specific incidence (or set of incidences) happen that produces a "high" or "low" feeling for someone. For example, someone might seek comfort in food after a bad day at work, a fight with a loved one... or even something small such as having to sit in a lot of traffic before work.

Conversely, one might emotionally eat when there are good things happening as well. People often gain weight when they're in relationships because they're so happy and comfortable.

It's important to acknowledge that sometimes people get urges to eat food for reasons that have little to do with being hungry, but more of catering to our desires. We get desires to eat and we think that the only cure for these temptations is to eat fattening foods (and in actuality, there are more healthy things that can be done).

Emotional eating only leads to downward spirals because it makes the problem worse since it leads to feelings of guilt, packing on weight, and overall adding poor nutrition to the body.

It's a good thing that you're looking for information how to end emotional eating.

Some things that you can do immediately is to figure out why you're emotionally eating and what types of events make you do this. You can also figure out when you're really hungry as opposed to when you're wanting to just eat emotionally.

You should also find other ways to release your feelings (both positive and negative). You can write in a journal, go shopping, indulge in a bath, or read a good book.

About the Author:
Rachel has lost 100 pounds herself, and is passionate about helping other people do it too. She has been featured in Woman's World, among others. You can check out more about how to end emotional eating on her website, YAYfood.

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