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.