Know Your Triggers
The first step to handling emotional eating is to identify your emotional eating triggers.We all have different reasons for giving in to emotional eating. While you may never eat when you're happy, your best friend may celebrate each small victory with a binge. My best friends clams up and subsists on water and saltines when she's depressed; I eat anything within reach.
Put it in Writing
By keeping a food and feeling journal, you'll be able to record how you're feeling and how much, how often, and what you eat. It doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a plain spiral notebook will do the trick, Simply write the date at the top of the page and then jot down what you're eating and how you're feeling before and after you do.In time, you will find that your emotional eating has a pattern to it. Do you over-eat when you're angry? Do you splurge on an extra serving of dessert when you're feeling frustrated?
Seeing your habits in black and white is the only way to get the true measure of your own personal emotional eating triggers.
Plan Alternatives
The only way to put this record to use effectively is to plan alternative activities to eating so you'll have another option the next time the situation and/or feelings arise in your life.<< How to Deal with Emotional Eating
