Emotional eating or stress eating is a person's tendency to divert feelings of anxiety, sadness, or anger by overeating. This desire to eat is not triggered by hunger but is only based on the desire to calm emotions or as a reward for oneself. Stress eating is not only experienced by someone with negative emotions, but can also occur when someone feels too happy so that they make food a reward.
In addition, some people also unknowingly make the habit of overeating a psychological response to stress. Well, in people who have a habit of stress eating, both of these things will encourage them to overeat when facing stress or certain emotions, such as anger, disappointment, and sadness.
The type of food chosen is usually not considered in terms of calorie and nutritional intake, for example fried foods, cakes, fast food, to packaged or processed foods.
When stress strikes, a person tends to be unable to think clearly and act impulsively. People who are stressed will be more easily carried away by emotions and desires to do something they want. When the person thinks that food is the solution to reduce stress, then he will greedily consume a lot of food without feeling hungry.
Food that enters the body is not a response to hunger, but rather emotion alone. When the person has finished feeling stressed, he realizes that the food consumed is too much and not nutritious. In the end, the person will feel guilty for forcing his body to accept excessive food so that it makes his body uncomfortable.
Indirectly, overeating when stressed is not the right solution, but instead causes other bad feelings. This is one of the impacts of emotional eating on the mind.
The first way to overcome stress eating is to understand the cause of the stress itself. Try to find out what things have made you anxious.
The cause of stress eating is long-lasting stress. This means that if you can handle stress quickly, then stress eating can be avoided.
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