Experts offer three simple questions to define, whether you are the emotional eater. So, 1. Do you feel, that eat when to you feel sad, alone, boring? 2. Do you mark any joyful event or renumerate yourself for success eating of a favorite dish? 3. Do you feel insuperable desire to eat as something tasty when you worry or be in a condition of stress? If you have answered “yes” even one of the offered questions you are an emotional eater.
So, we study to distinguish feeling of famine from emotional dependence on meal:
1. “Emotional” famine overtakes us suddenly, sometimes right after reception of food, and physiological - through the certain time intervals.
2. You would like absolutely certain products: a land, a pizza, ice-cream. It is “emotional” famine. In case, when the person actually wishes to eat, it will not be so categorical and will eat anything.
3. “Emotional” famine requires immediate absorption of desirable food, physiological famine can be endured.
4. If you “eat” emotions you will continue to eat even if you are sated. If you eat, because you are hungry, you will cease to eat, as soon as you will be sated.
5. “Emotional” overeating often leaves a feeling of fault - for quantity of eaten, body weight, etc. Usual famine leaves only feeling of satisfaction.
Strategy of struggle
Try to find alternative to constant “diving” into refrigerator on a background of negative emotions. You may walk, chat with friends, go to the cinema, listen to music etc.
Promise that you will eat three “healthy” products each time before throwing on something harmful. For example, you can eat an apple, a carrot and the skim yoghurt before desired pack of chips.