Emotional Eating

Emotional Eating
Monday, 14 April 2008
Emotional eating depends upon one's mood. During a mood shifting one starts eating something without seeing whether its good or not.
Definition of Emotional Eating
Emotional eating can be defined as eating something in response to one's feelings. You need not to feel hunger during emotional eating. It means your emotions are controlling you what to eat and how much you want to eat. Some people like to eat sweets when they are under stress or some like to have salty. This all depends upon one's nature and mood.
How it causes weight gainDuring emotional eating one dows not count for calories. He doesn't see what he is eating. So he just takes in whatever is present in his front. This way he adds on calories in his body. Moreover the main thing to be mentioned here is that generally it is high calories, high fat, high sugar or salty food which one tends to eat when he is under emotional eating. These things make your stomach fuller but makes you fatty also.

Try to indulge yourself in other activities or have nutritious food like roughage, water, juice etc. when you are under stress, tired , anxious or want to go for emotional eating