Understanding Emotional Eating
Food, the nourishment for our lives, can be loaded with issues. In our troubled relationships with food, emotional eating ranks at the top of the list. Understanding the phenomenon and recognizing the symptoms are great ways to start redefining your relationship with food. The first thing to understanding the problem is recognizing the traits of emotional eating.
Psychiatrist Roger Gold, an authority on that issue, outlined some characteristics of emotional eating at diet.com. They are:
- Hunger that comes on suddenly: Physical starvation comes on slowly. starvation from emotional eating often comes on quickly and suddenly.
- Craving very specific foods: Cravings for specific, generally unhealthy foods is a sign of emotional eating. Often folks like the rush they get from satisfying their cravings. That rushis fulfilling emotional starvation.
- Urgent starvation: Physical starvation, unless you haven’t eaten for a very faraway date, is normally pretty patient. It will wait for food. Emotional starvation demands to be convinced immediately.
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