How to Stop Emotional Eating

The most effective strategy for how to stop emotional eating just might surprise you.

Emotional eating is eating as a way to suppress or soothe negative emotions such as stress, anger, fear, boredom, sadness or loneliness. Both major life events and the hassles of daily life can trigger negative emotions that lead to emotional eating.

Emotional eating often leads to eating too much food, and emotional eaters often turn to junk food. Emotional eating can make losing weight and getting fit and healthy almost impossible.

Although some people eat less when faced with negative emotions, many people turn to impulsive or binge eating. In fact, your emotions may become so tied to your eating habits that you automatically reach for food without thinking about it whenever you're faced with negative emotions.

Emotional eating frequently leads to an unhealthy cycle - your emotions trigger you to overeat, you feel guilty about overeating, the guilt causes you to overeat again.

There's a lot of advice available about how to stop emotional eating. Here's some of the more common advice: keep a food diary, think before eating, eat only at the dinner table, don't eat on the run, eat slowly, don't stockpile snacks, don't eat straight from a container, taste your food completely, separate eating from other activities, eat only when hungry.

While all of this advice is useful, it's based on willpower and your concious mind. The real key to overcoming emotional eating is to focus on your subconcious mind. Your subconscious mind controls your behavior.

Emotional eating is a habit, and habits can be very powerful and difficult to break. Making a conscious effort to change your emotional eating habit will only take you so far if you try to force new habits upon yourself using only willpower. Your emotional eating habit may stop temporarily, but it will come back.

If you want to permanently break the habit of emotional eating, you have to change the underlying mental patterns in your subconcious mind that are causing the habit. By changing these mental patterns, you'll break the link between emotional needs and eating, and you'll change the way that you eat and the way that you think about food.

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Think Right Now! has a program called Eating For Excellent Health Now! that repatterns your thoughts and attitudes about yourself, your health, and about food. This proven program has helped thousands of people permanently stop emotional eating.

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