When you are an emotional eater, you eat to feed your feelings. Food equals comfort, love, acceptance, a feeling of safety, or emotional release. That's why it's so hard for many emotional eaters to stay on a diet. Despite all the logical reasons to lose weight or eat healthy, that logic is overruled by a far more primal desire to feel better when they are stressed, sad or … [Read more...] about What is emotional eating?
Diet & Fitness
How To Start a Food Diary Online for Free
The internet has become a very versatile and malleable tool that people who have different goals can use their own benefits. One of the things that people have been using the internet for is putting up an online food journal to help them monitor their food intake for fitness or health purposes. An online food diary is a great idea because it is something that can be accessed … [Read more...] about How To Start a Food Diary Online for Free
Five Treadmill Benefits Over Traditional Jogging
What's the point of having a bulky exercise machine? Jogging around the town or brisk walking in the park has the same benefits, anyway. If you have the same thought, then you must be missing the whole point of having a treadmill. This hugely beneficial machine has been in the market for decades. There must be a good reason for that. Well actually, there are five convincing … [Read more...] about Five Treadmill Benefits Over Traditional Jogging
Tips for controlling midnight snacking
Midnight snacking is a very unhealthy habit. It is a big factor in uncontrolled weight gain and obesity and there are also studies which show that the compromised digestion (because your body is digesting food while you're sleeping) can result in the formation and accumulation of fat deposits in the body. Unfortunately, midnight snacking is a habit that is also hard to break … [Read more...] about Tips for controlling midnight snacking
Simple steps to control food cravings
One of the biggest factors for obesity in people is uncontrolled food cravings. We've all experienced it some point – we suddenly have a hankering for food and we want to indulge ourselves even if at the back of our minds we know that the food we're craving for is not good for us and will only make us gain weight. Our cravings are actually hardwired into our brains because of … [Read more...] about Simple steps to control food cravings