6 Symptoms of Emotional Eating
John Davenport
October 19, 2009
Eating because the hunger is in your heart and not in your stomach? You could be one of the millions suffering from emotional eating.
Here are the top 5 symptoms of emotional eating. Find out if you suffer from these symptoms.
Hunger or craving: Hunger is physical. Craving is emotional. When you are hungry, almost anything will do. When you crave something, only THAT food will do. Hunger comes on slowly and builds to a peak. Cravings come on suddenly.
Urgency: Emotional eating demands immediate gratification, to the extent that you would go to the store after the kids have gone to sleep in order to get your favorite ice cream. Emotional eaters fantasize about food, focusing on the taste, feel and texture of specific foods. Physical hunger comes on slowly, is patient and can tolerate delays.
Instigating emotion: Emotional hunger is instigated by certain emotions. It could be anger, bitterness, pain or even sheer boredom. When hunger is triggered by upsetting events, you are eating to fill the void in your heart.
Unconscious eating: This is one of the most common symptoms of emotional eating. You are sitting in front of the TV with Doritos in your hand and you don´t even know how it got there! Nor do you have any idea of how many you ate!
Feeling empty: Emotional eaters do not feel full after eating the normal amount of food. This is an indication of the fact that hunger is not located in the stomach but in the heart.
Aftereffects: Guilt is the most common effect of emotional eating. After gobbling food on an emotional impulse, victims often feel terrible, both physically and emotionally. But, the guilt and self loathing only leads to fresh episodes of emotional eating. The cycle continues.
Do you have any of these symptoms? Emotional eating is curable! The first and foremost step to overcoming emotional eating is awareness.
Click here to see the #1 Secret to Stop Emotional Eating
Here are the top 5 symptoms of emotional eating. Find out if you suffer from these symptoms.
Hunger or craving: Hunger is physical. Craving is emotional. When you are hungry, almost anything will do. When you crave something, only THAT food will do. Hunger comes on slowly and builds to a peak. Cravings come on suddenly.
Urgency: Emotional eating demands immediate gratification, to the extent that you would go to the store after the kids have gone to sleep in order to get your favorite ice cream. Emotional eaters fantasize about food, focusing on the taste, feel and texture of specific foods. Physical hunger comes on slowly, is patient and can tolerate delays.
Instigating emotion: Emotional hunger is instigated by certain emotions. It could be anger, bitterness, pain or even sheer boredom. When hunger is triggered by upsetting events, you are eating to fill the void in your heart.
Unconscious eating: This is one of the most common symptoms of emotional eating. You are sitting in front of the TV with Doritos in your hand and you don´t even know how it got there! Nor do you have any idea of how many you ate!
Feeling empty: Emotional eaters do not feel full after eating the normal amount of food. This is an indication of the fact that hunger is not located in the stomach but in the heart.
Aftereffects: Guilt is the most common effect of emotional eating. After gobbling food on an emotional impulse, victims often feel terrible, both physically and emotionally. But, the guilt and self loathing only leads to fresh episodes of emotional eating. The cycle continues.
Do you have any of these symptoms? Emotional eating is curable! The first and foremost step to overcoming emotional eating is awareness.
Click here to see the #1 Secret to Stop Emotional Eating
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