Can Mental Health Trigger Emotional Eating? Here Is How You Control It Successfully

I see emotional eating all the time around me. Until we address that, it is very hard to stay motivated and keep healthy lifestyle. It is a very common problem. As far as the triggers, it depends on the person and why they experience the emotional eating in the first place. Many things, all the things which makes a person sad like breakups, sad childhood, past memories, abuse, lack of confidence, stress at work, lack of sleep or trauma.

As human beings, we love foods that gives us a strong emotional release, such as endorphins and adrenaline shocks. We must also take into account that most of these foods have a saturation of fats and lipids. Craving for any salty, fatty, oily, junk, sweets, sweet carbs at any situation is actually caused due to certain organs not functioning to its 100% potential in our body.

Personally, I would say that it is conditioned by the start of mind. But habits can be drastically change by a particular goal. Understand your body first, then find the root cause to get yourself healthy. Understand you need to reduce weight. Emotional eating could be another main reason to have excessive weight gain as many people diet and lose weight with the idea that as soon as they dropped a certain number of pounds, they can reward themselves by going out and fill up on food for losing weight in the first place.

A lot of people stay trapped in a cycle of emotional eating for years, and this can affect your weight loss journey. For most people, it was dealing with some of the things that caused it and changing the way they think about food (no more diets) and  personal lifestyle. You can start with a food journal and when you find yourself hungry/binging, evaluate what emotions you're feeling, if it has something to do with what just happened or what's going on around you. Evaluate if you are truly hungry (scale 1-10). If it's just a 1-3, you're not truly hungry and need to wait about 15-20mins. Cravings should subside then.

Emotional eating can really take negative impact on your personal life. Working on some of those eating behaviours can be really a life changing. You need to create new habit that last.

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