overeating to improve your mood

Overeating to improve your mood – does it work?

Emotional Eating

Overeating to improve your mood

It’s important to find mood-boosting activities if you’re an emotional eater. Overeating to improve your mood is only a temporary solution. 

They say the third week of January is the gloomiest, most depressing time of the year (it’s cold and dark, etc.). I know it’s already the 4th week but does it really matter? It could be any day of the year. 

But it doesn’t have to be.

We can find a few minutes every day to do something that improves our mood. Or we can learn to manage our thoughts and feelings to improve our baseline mood.

It’s especially important to find some mood-boosting activities if you’re an emotional eater and overeat to improve your mood. 

Using food to escape an uncomfortable feeling, aka. overeating to improve your mood is only a temporary solution. 

You know that, right?

Because that ‘something’ that caused you to feel uncomfortable is still there. You haven’t dealt with it. So it’ll trigger those same feelings again in the future. 

If this habit of distracting yourself with food has resulted in weight gain, you’ll have even more negative feelings. 

So you have your original issue plus negative thoughts about your body.

Eating to improve your mood doesn’t work very well, right?

 

Can you improve your mood with overeating?

You need different solutions

 

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

Emotional Eating

free training to stop emotinal eating and stress eating

 

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.