Are you eating your feelings?

Are you eating your feelings? There’s a moment in our day when all judgment towards our goals goes out the window. Food is often used to alleviate feelings of loneliness, anxiety/stress, guilt, frustration, or boredom. Yet, we all feel shameful to not talk about it because we may be looked at with a lack of willpower or have had this behavior pattern for years and feel hopeless. Spend some time getting to the root of the emotions you’re feeling and address it. Reduce those emotions helps to eliminate the cues that prompt you If it is stress, find ways to manage instead of accepting that this is the way it is. If it is loneliness, seek community. If there are emotional issues in your past that you can’t seem to resolve on your own, enlist the help of a professional to help. Dissociate the emotional cues from food. If eating in response to an emotional state I would suggest that you put another behavior in its place. Go for a walk, walk around at a mall, grab coffee with a friend, read, or doing any other behavior that does not involve eating. Cultivate an environment that doesn’t trigger or encourage the behavior. I don’t keep jars of peanut butter in my home because the jar always wins. Remember, when emotions are high, logic is low.