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.

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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?

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When and Why Emotional Eating Isn’t a Bad Thing

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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.

How to cope with emotions without food

How to cope with emotions without food – building emotional tolerance

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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.

the connection between hating your body and emotional eating

Hating your body and emotional eating – is there a connection between them?

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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.

It´s not your fault that you struggle with food, your weight, and your body image

It´s not your fault that you struggle with food, your weight, and your body image

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It´s not your fault that you struggle with food and overeating and your weight no matter how many times and how hard you tried to get this sorted out before. It´s not your fault!

The problem is that the tools and solutions you tried in the past did not address the real cause of your struggle with food

You almost certainly tried diets in the past that told you what to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, and how to exercise but they ignored what actually drove you to overeat.

These diets work for a while but then you just can´t stick to them anymore, you lose your willpower and return to your old habits. Why is that? Is it because you don´t have enough willpower? Or because you are weak and lazy? Or you just can´t stick to any plan? Definitely none of these!

It´s because you have not figured out why you tend to eat too much food when you are stressed, angry, lonely or even happy. They tell you what to eat but first, you need to find out what´s eating you. Without knowing this, no amount of willpower will be enough to stop you from overeating. You have been searching for the answer in the wrong place. It´s not your fault.

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Are you really hungry? The difference between physical and emotional hunger

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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.