Are You An Emotional Eater? 7 Problem Eating Patterns and How to Overcome Them

September 11th, 2017

By Karen Foster

Guest writer for Wake Up World

Reaching out for that bar of chocolate or potato chips when you’re feeling low, upset or tired is a situation that most of us are familiar with. Emotional eaters tend to lose the least amount of weight and have the hardest time keeping it off. Food has the uncanny ability to make us feel better but to depending on it for emotional support does more harm than good in the long run. Whether you’re a diet junkie, a comfort eater or a binger, here’s how to snap out of your problematic patterns and find the right solution that works for you.

Ask yourself why you want to eat when you aren’t physically hungry. Is it to fill a void or are you genuinely low on energy? It has now been established that cravings are most often triggered by emotions, which include anxiety and even boredom.

Weight loss is one of the top resolutions made every year, yet 80 percent of people do not achieve successful weight-loss and maintenance. There are six top reasons dieters don’t achieve success.

Many women expect diets to change their body shape, which may explain why some, frustrated by the lack of effect from their efforts, have trouble maintaining specific diets and revert to specific dietary patterns. If women are dieting with the belief that weight loss will lead to shape change, they will fail to achieve their aim and this is reason that diets are likely to be short-lived and, ultimately, unsuccessful.

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