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!
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
From this post, you’ll learn all the basics you need to know about emotional 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.
Let´s talk about feelings today. Specifically how to cope with emotions without food, i.e. how to deal with your uncomfortable feelings without eating.
As I mentioned in a previous post, emotional eating is one of the main reasons you might not be able to lose weight. You know how to eat healthily, you stick to your healthy habits most of the time but when something happens and triggers some uncomfortable feelings inside of you, you turn to food and overeat or even binge and you gain the weight back.
To prevent this from happening, you need to know what triggers these feelings and how to cope with these emotions without food.
Let´s talk about food cravings during weight loss today because I get a lot of questions about them.
For many people, craving is one of the main reasons they feel they can´t lose weight. I want to show you a powerful mindset shift about cravings.
In this post, I write about the connection between hating your body and emotional eating.
Many people go through life body shaming themselves because they are a few pounds or several pounds heavier than they would like to be or they are not where they were ten years ago.
Of course, hearing their own voice saying negative things about themselves in their head many times a day will make them feel miserable and they might even feel like a failure. A common way people deal with difficult emotions and negative self-image is ironically: (binge) eating. Eating is an inexpensive, quick, easy, and reliable way to temporarily take away the pain and hurt of how we feel.
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