How To Stop Emotional Eating

How to Change Emotional Eating:
Emotional eating tends to be a habit, and like any habit can be broken. It may be hard, especially if you’ve been doing it for a long time, but it is possible.

Weight problems often run in families, so the easiest way to tackle emotional eating is together as a family. You can’t expect an overweight child to stop binge-eating snacks and junk food when other people in the household are eating them.

Identify your emotional eating triggers:
Awareness
– The first step in putting a stop to emotional eating is identifying your personal triggers. What situations, places, or feelings make you reach for the comfort of food? Most emotional eating is linked to unpleasant feelings, but it can also be triggered by positive emotions, such as rewarding yourself for achieving a goal or celebrating a holiday or happy event.

Identifying your triggers
– The main thing to look for would be potential triggers which could be anything from situations, places or the time of day for an example, that would make you start emotionally eating, and keep a lookout for those situations as they would massively help you stop emotionally eating.

Remember it won’t be just you that is going through this as I believe most people do, and if you need any further information or if you’re struggling and need some extra help don’t be afraid to get in contact!