Losing weight isn't really that complicated, when you look at it: eat healthy food, and eat just enough. However, the problem lies in the fact that 75% of us are emotional eaters. That's right—studies show that most of us reach for food for every reason except hunger. We're bored, stressed, depressed, restless. These emotions act as our 'eating trigger' and lo and behold, we … [Read more...] about What are your eating triggers?
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What is emotional eating?
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?