Emotional eating is turning to food for comfort, stress relief, or as a reward rather than to satisfy hunger. Most emotional eaters feel powerless over their food cravings. When the urge to eat hits, it’s all you can think about.
If you’ve ever made room for dessert even though you’re already full or dove into a pint of ice cream when you’re feeling down,? Your not alone this is me when I’m depressed!
Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better—eating to fill emotional needs, rather than to fill your stomach.
Using food from time to time as a pick me up, a reward, or to celebrate isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But when eating is your primary emotional coping mechanism when your first impulse is to open the refrigerator whenever you’re upset, angry, lonely, stressed, exhausted, or bored and you get stuck in an unhealthy cycle where the real feeling or problem is never addressed.
Emotional hunger can’t be filled with food. Eating may feel good at that moment, but the feelings that triggered the eating are still there. And you often feel worse than you did before because of the unnecessary calories you just consumed. 😰You feel guilty for messing up and not having more willpower.
Are you an emotional eater?
Do you eat more when you’re feeling stressed?
Do you eat when you’re not hungry or when you’re full?
Do you eat to feel better (to calm and soothe yourself?
Do you eat rubbish when your depressed?
Maybe next time ur feeling lonely down or stress wait 5 before heading to the cupboard or fridge, think of other ways like exercise. Breathing or a glass water !!
Just couple things that sometimes helped me, if after this I still want food then I must be hungry and always try to choose healthy options now and not the chocolate or ice cream.
But let’s be honest I still emotional eat especially when I’m depressed like the past couple weeks!!!
The reason I’m writing this is with the pain, and depression I slowly feel myself sinking and I’m finding I’m snacking more, and need to go back to my herbal teas, or just bed lol. As I said earlier tho sometimes it’s ok, just don’t let it ruin all the hard work!
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Weightloss and struggling with endometriosis..
There's so much more to endometriosis than meets the eye. Below the surface, living with endometriosis can mean days spent in bed, missed appointments, and alternate days when we seem "fine." We know that endometriosis comes with hundreds of possible combinations of symptoms, many of which appear invisible to outsiders. Most people don't know the many symptoms we experience. For
13 years I waited to get a proper diagnosis, first was appendix, then pcoc poly cystic ovaries, I lived with that diagnosis for years until a doctor said I didn't have it. The past year has been hell constant pain, and wasn't until July 29th 2016 a specialist said "endometriosis " I've heard of it but had no idea what it was, she put me on hormones and a lot of pain meds to try help ease some of the pain, we are talking 30 x in hospital getting called a drug addict and I need mental help but in September I had a mirena inserted which fell out 2months later due to heavy bleeding, and then on a wait list for surgery when that failed. So now Im 2 -3weeks post op, my surgery was march 9th 2017, stage 2 endometriosis was removed, I've also developed a post op complication a large lump on my left side above a wound site a haematoma and I had to go back to hospital. But anyway endometriosis is way more than what people think, and there needs to be more info about it and more people made aware that it's not normal to be in pain.
Endometriosis is a medical condition that occurs when the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium, grows in other places, such as the fallopian tubes, ovaries or along the pelvis. When that lining breaks down, like the regular lining in the uterus that produces the menstruation, it has nowhere to go. This causes cysts, heavy periods, severe cramps and even infertility. And whole bunch more.
The endometrial tissue may also grow in the vagina, cervix, bowel or bladder, and in rare cases it may spread to other parts of the body, such as the lungs.
Symptoms
The most common symptom of endometriosis is cramping during menstruation, which can get worse over time, and can be debilitating.
The pain is due to internal bleeding from the lining being shed inside the body — in a place where it doesn’t belong — and can also lead to scar tissue formation, blocked fallopian tubes, and bowel problems, all of which I've had all the bloating and pain and constipation the worst, thank god for baggy clothes right?
Although many women experience some pain during their periods, women with endometriosis often say their menstrual pain is much worse than usual with me it's like my insides a being twisted, churned and ripped apart from the inside out, my ovaries feel like a soccer ball being kicked back and forth , and it increases over time.
Women with the condition may also experience pain while having sex, fatigue, painful urination or bowel movements during menstruation and gastrointestinal upset. Infertility and bleeding between periods are also symptoms of endometriosis.
Some women don't experience any symptoms at all, but realize they have the condition when they are unable to get pregnant.
It's a horrible incurable invisible illness that can only be diagnosed by laparoscopic surgery.
I've been in hospital like 30plus x in the last 6-8months, days where I haven't been able to get out of bed due to extreme pain and bleeding, I've had to leave work early cause of it. It's not pleasant at all, but I never stop fighting, I've lost 53kg in a 10 year period (a lot of that in the last 3years, and I've gained a whole new perspective on life.
I have scars I have lumps and I have chronic pain that in a few months I finially hope I get relief when I have recovered from surgery.
This will be a battle I fight for the rest of my life, and invisible illness that's totally real, I fight like a girl, I'm a endo warrior. WE NEED A CURE.
Also I'm not crazy even if at times I totally feel like it. It's REAL
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