This article will be sharing a few ways to know the difference between physical and emotional hunger.
The difference between physical and emotional hunger
Do you find yourself standing in front of the fridge or cupboard and looking for something to eat? As we stay at home more and have more time to cook and eat, unnecessary snacking and overeating are almost inevitable. In
this post, I listed some possible reasons why we might feel like snacking more than usual.
Don’t beat yourself up if it happens to you, it's completely normal. 🙂
However, if you want to reduce the occurrence, you might want to pay attention to your hunger. In my
previous post, I said that we should ask ourselves whether we are physically or emotionally hungry before we start eating.
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The problem is that we might not be able to distinguish between physical hunger and emotional (boredom, anxiety, stress, habitual, etc.) hunger or eating for pleasure. This can be really difficult if you use food regularly to distract yourself from or to suppress your feelings.
Looking into how you feel about eating is the first step in the direction of tackling these issues.
When you reach for something to eat, you want to know the real reason why you’re standing there in front of the refrigerator.
I listed some signs that can help you distinguish between emotional and physical hunger.
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Do you think you need a quick-fix diet program?
I have two questions for you today:
Have you dieted before? Did it work in the long term?
Of course, you can go on a fad diet and lose weight. But can you do it for the rest of your life? Diets work for a reason (for example you want to lose weight for an event) or for a season (e.g. summer). But if the chosen food and exercise plan isn´t sustainable for the rest of your life, eventually you will go back to your old habits and will gain the weight back.
Believe it or not, having a history of dieting can actually cause you to gain weight, instead of losing it. Sure, you might lose a few pounds in the short term, but most quick-fix diet programs fail and many people end up putting the weight back on.
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