| p>Almost everybody struggles with emotional | | | | find your main stressor, you need to come up |
| eating to some degree. If you have ever found | | | | with a plan for eliminating it. |
| yourself eating food (usually tons of it, and usually | | | | To do this, you need to become a more mindful |
| the worst kind) in response to your feelings as | | | | eater. Zone in on your physical sensations and |
| opposed to hunger, you've probably experienced | | | | only allow yourself to eat when you're moderately |
| emotional eating too. It can be a huge obstacle to | | | | hungry. Now, for your stress. Simply stopping |
| weight loss because even if you have a strategic | | | | yourself from emotionally eating doesn't target |
| plan in place, your irrational behaviors can | | | | the root issue and isn't a recipe for long-term |
| sabotage it. Here's how to kick emotional eating | | | | success. Come up with a replacement behavior |
| so you can lose weight fast! | | | | for emotional eating. When you feel yourself |
| The most important thing you need to do is to | | | | wanting to turn to food, get in the habit of doing |
| figure out your main source of stress. The most | | | | something else. For example, you might try |
| common causes of emotional eating are anger, | | | | reading a chapter, writing in a journal, doing some |
| hopelessness, lack of control, boredom, and | | | | stretching or yoga, or going for a walk. Changing |
| feeling underappreciated. Use a daily food diary to | | | | your habits is hard work, but practice makes |
| find yours. At every meal and snack, write down | | | | perfect, so why don't you start now? |
| exactly how you feel before you eat. After you | | | | |