how to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

18 ways to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

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How to avoid weight gain during the holidays as an emotional or compulsive eater

  Chances are you feel very sceptical reading the title and you’re probably thinking, “Yeah, right, as it could ever happen..." But what if I told you it can be done? What if you had some science-backed techniques to help you? Then, would you believe me? What have you got to lose? These are my top 18 ways to avoid gaining weight during the holidays. Let’s get started! ...
can mindful eating help with emotional eating

Can mindful eating help with emotional eating? A mindful approach to curb emotional eating

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Mindful Eating to Help Curb Emotional and Binge Eating

If you have developed the habit of emotional or binge eating, in other words, you immediately crave a specific type of food or volume of food when you are stressed, sad, anxious, upset, bored, or even happy, mindful eating can help you tremendously. Especially if you find yourself mindlessly eating a large amount of food without even tasting what you are eating. It is important that you try a variety of things until you figure out what helps your own issues with emotional eating, but mindful eating is a great tool. [irp posts="6223" name="All you need to know about emotional eating"] [irp posts="3673" name="Are you really hungry? The difference between physical and emotional hunger"] ...
How to stop eating your feeling due to fear of feeling your emotions

How to stop eating your feelings due to fear of feeling your emotions

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Are you afraid to feel your emotions so you eat to numb them?

Do you want to know how to stop eating your feelings? Keep reading. For many people, expressing difficult emotions or admitting they have “negative” feelings like sadness or anger feel difficult or even impossible. Most people, understandably, don't want to feel anxious or hurt, or upset. So they choose to ignore or suppress these feelings. They numb their feelings with food, or distract themselves with the neverending cycle of overeating and restricting. And the most significant reason they do this is because they're afraid to feel their emotions. In this post, I'll discuss why we fear our uncomfortable emotions and how to learn to embrace our feelings. This will help you stop eating your feelings and have a better relationship with food. ...
why am I so hungry before my period

Why am I so hungry before my period?

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Why am I so hungry before my period?

  “Why am I so hungry before my period?” “Why do I eat so much a week before my period starts?” “Is it normal to be super hungry during ovulation”? “How to control my mood swings during my period?” “Why am I crying all the time before my period?” Many women ask these questions and look for answers to them. If you are one of them, you don’t need to search any longer. You’ll find the answers in this post. ...
10 daily mood-boosting activities to eliminate emotional eating

10 daily mood-boosting activities to overcome emotional eating

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10 daily mood-boosting activities to help you overcome emotional eating

  This post will show you mood-boosting activities so you can lift your mood without eating. Many people use food to improve their mood when they are sad, stressed, anxious, bored, lonely, tense, agitated, or even just exhausted by the end of the day. Food is often used to suppress negative emotions or distract ourselves from these feelings. Food can make you feel calm and relaxed temporarily. It´s ok to eat emotionally occasionally, everyone does that. The problem is when eating becomes your main coping mechanism. It's beneficial to learn and use other mood-boosting activities too so eating won't be the first thing you want to turn to. ...
is emotional eating always bad?

Is emotional eating always bad?

When and Why Emotional Eating Isn't a Bad Thing

stop eating your feelings workbook free chapter Is emotional eating always bad? When people talk about emotional eating, it is always how to stop it or figuring out why you do it in the first place. It typically comes with the thought that it is a terrible habit you must stop immediately, but this isn’t always the case. Eating because of how you feel isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It depends more on how often you do it and whether or not it is the only thing you can turn to. It's also a sign that you have something in your life that you are not dealing with. It's an opening towards a better life if you pay attention to what makes you eat when you're not hungry. ...
all you need to know about emotional eating

All you need to know about emotional eating

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Emotional Eating 101

From this post, you'll learn all the basics you need to know about emotional eating:
  • Why do people eat their emotions
  • Whether or not everyone eats emotionally
  • When does emotional eating become a problem
  • What to do if you find yourself emotionally eating
“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment, I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.” -Oscar Wilde. ...
5 smart tips for guaranteed long-term weight loss success

5 smart tips for guaranteed long-term weight loss success – no deprivation needed

Follow these no-nonsense tips for guaranteed long-term weight loss success

Losing weight can take a lot out of you, physically, emotionally, mentally. And many times, once the weight is off, you assume it´ll never return. But the sad truth is that we easily pack on the pounds soon after because we fall back into the same negative habits as before. If you’ve lost some weight, follow these 5 smart tips to keep the extra weight off for good. ...
6 ways healthy lifestyle can save your money

(Guest Post) 6 ways healthy lifestyle can save your money

20 simple habits to lose weight without dieting Do you want to lead a healthy lifestyle but worry that it will be too expensive for your budget? Everything is much simpler. We will tell you how to save money for those who want to live healthier. Nowadays, being healthy means being in trend. And in connection with the latest events in the world, this topic has become more relevant than ever. However, many people believe that eating healthy and exercising is very expensive and not available to everyone. What should do those people whose financial resources are limited? Of course, a 1000 dollar loan can solve all your problems. But can you save money by leading a healthy lifestyle? The answer is yes.     In this article, we'll show you how to strengthen your budget by leading a healthy lifestyle. Let's take a look at the simplest tips on how to live a healthier lifestyle in 2021. ...
Are you stuck at a weight? How can you lower your weight set point?

Are you stuck at a weight? How can you lower your weight set-point?

20 simple habits to lose weight without dieting

The weight set-point theory

Have you heard of the weight set-point theory? According to this theory, there is a weight range your body is comfortable at and it hovers around give or take a few pounds. This range is determined by your genetics and your environment/habits. 

 

But the thing is, we can shift this setpoint. If we eat excessively and live a sedentary lifestyle (due to stress, anxiety, busy lifestyle, emotional eating, depression, hormonal imbalance, or any other reason) for a relatively long time, we gain weight and override our body´s natural tendency of staying at the original set point. The new, higher weight becomes our set point.

 

The body likes to keep things the same, it´s called homeostasis. This also applies to our weight. Whatever weight we had for months becomes our new set point. 

 

A part of the brain called the hypothalamus helps maintain this set-point. It does this by controlling hunger, appetite, and metabolism. 

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