Re: I am an emotional eater.....
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 3:47 pm
Emotional eating is a major issue for most people.
You can always tell emotional eating because you aren't hungry, and you're never satisfied, and when you eat for emotional needs the emotional is never resolved.
Emotional eating comes from liking and wanting rather than needing...serotonin being released in the brain to lift mood and dopamine being released to give reward. This is how food can end up having addictive-like qualities. (Food in itself is not addictive, just can appear that way.)
The easiest way to stop emotional eating is to stop the negative emotions happening in the first place. Find new ways of acting and behaving that result in a more appropriate emotional response. Anger is when rules are broken and is experienced in the moment. Anxiety is about the future, the unknown. Frustration is anger held within, without release. (Temper would be the release, rage the uncontrolled release).
If the emotions come find new ways that resolve the emotions in ways that suit you far better, that are healthier safer and best for you. Resolve the emotion with different behaviour then you don't need to experience the behaviour.
In order to do this quickly I would suggest seeing a suitably experienced professional to help guide you through to make the changes required. As a hypnotherapist I would suggest you see one, obviously, though any psychological intervention approach will work. The key thing is to make changes.
One way of removing negative emotions is by using breathing. Negative emotions come with arrhythmia - irregular heart beat and breathing. If you remove the arrhythmia then the emotion collapses. Give this a go.
Breathe at the pace you need to breathe.
- Regularise your breathing. Breath equal distance in to out, equal time in to out, breathing with rhythm.
- Breathe smoothly.
- Breathe from the centre of your chest or even lower.
- Take your focus to your heart.
Give it a go. I've successfully collapsed full blown panic attacks with this methodology alone.
Let me know what you all think...
You can always tell emotional eating because you aren't hungry, and you're never satisfied, and when you eat for emotional needs the emotional is never resolved.
Emotional eating comes from liking and wanting rather than needing...serotonin being released in the brain to lift mood and dopamine being released to give reward. This is how food can end up having addictive-like qualities. (Food in itself is not addictive, just can appear that way.)
The easiest way to stop emotional eating is to stop the negative emotions happening in the first place. Find new ways of acting and behaving that result in a more appropriate emotional response. Anger is when rules are broken and is experienced in the moment. Anxiety is about the future, the unknown. Frustration is anger held within, without release. (Temper would be the release, rage the uncontrolled release).
If the emotions come find new ways that resolve the emotions in ways that suit you far better, that are healthier safer and best for you. Resolve the emotion with different behaviour then you don't need to experience the behaviour.
In order to do this quickly I would suggest seeing a suitably experienced professional to help guide you through to make the changes required. As a hypnotherapist I would suggest you see one, obviously, though any psychological intervention approach will work. The key thing is to make changes.
One way of removing negative emotions is by using breathing. Negative emotions come with arrhythmia - irregular heart beat and breathing. If you remove the arrhythmia then the emotion collapses. Give this a go.
Breathe at the pace you need to breathe.
- Regularise your breathing. Breath equal distance in to out, equal time in to out, breathing with rhythm.
- Breathe smoothly.
- Breathe from the centre of your chest or even lower.
- Take your focus to your heart.
Give it a go. I've successfully collapsed full blown panic attacks with this methodology alone.
Let me know what you all think...