How Mood and Food Affects Weight Loss

The combination of your mood and food can trigger urges that can cause overeating. Eating for some people may be a way of suppressing or soothing negative emotions like stress, anger, anxiety, boredom, sadness and loneliness.

The connection between mood and food turn these emotional eaters toward unhealthy, comfort foods in times of trouble. Starchy, sweet, salty and fatty foods can seem to provide comfort but are usually only short-term fixes.

But did you know that 95% of all people who lose weight gain it all back again?

Gaining this weight back again leads to even more negative emotions.

That can be a never-ending up and down cycle that can stay with you the rest of your life unless you do something about it immediately.

Understanding the reasons that cause you to crave unhealthy foods can help you avoid giving in to your cravings. Here are a few tips to help you avoid the unhealthy consequences of emotional overeating:

1. Learn to recognize if your hunger is real. Ask yourself if you are really hungry or is it emotional overeating?

2. Monitor your eating for the next several days, making note of how much and when you eat as well as what kind of mood you are in. Once you can recognize the negative triggers to overeating you are back in control.

3. If you feel the need to eat because of your mood, take a walk, go to a movie or call a friend to get your mind on something else. This gives you a second chance for the feelings to eat to pass.

4. Don't keep starchy, high fat, high calorie, comfort foods in the house. Plan for healthy snacks by keeping fresh fruit, cut up vegetables and low fat cheese around.

When you eat healthier foods you are more likely to feel full longer and avoid the need for emotional eating. Emotions can trigger cravings for food but you can take these steps to control those cravings.

Just learning to recognize the correlation between your mood and food will ultimately allow you to achieve your weight loss success.

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