🔸 Stress
🔸 Depression
🔸 Happy Eating
🔸 Anxiety
🔸 Busy Schedules
There are SO many reasons we slip into unhealthy eating patterns outside of just the
food we buy and prepare. Lets face it, in our Fast Food ➕ Convenience food American
World, it is easier to EAT BADLY than is is to plan to eat with health and good nutrition in mind. Emotional excuses for eating comfort food are so believable because it IS HARD
to eat well when you are depressed, have anxiety or Stress related to a busy work,
school, and/or family schedule. It can also be hard to eat well, when you are super
happy, and loving comfort food sharing with loved ones. Wanna know why? As a
species, we are programmed to survive the winter with excess fat storage on our bodies. Therefore, when we eat fattening foods, our brains release small amounts of endorphins
to perpetuate this fat accumulation.
🔹 These funky little endorphins make us FEEL BETTER🔹
✔️ It helps pull us out of sad moments.
✔️ It feels like a reward to a hectic day.
✔️ It even helps heighten the good times co-eating with friends on happy days.
Its a sick little survival of the fittest instinct that makes us want to eat bad.
GUESS WHAT??? We no longer have to SURVIVE A WINTER as our nomadic predecessors did. We have NO starvation periods. So what happens... ⁉️
🔹 We just continue to gain the average 5 lbs per year that Americans gain...year after
year after year after year 🔹
🔸HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS PATTERN?🔸
Its simple, start by recognizing it. Write down WHAT is your Emotional eating kryptonite.
Once you have it defined, try to recognize when you are allowing that food excuse to win.
Spend a week journaling about your day in food and nutrition and evaluate CRITICAL times/days of the week where you fail. Once you know the catalysts, you can PLAN to keep them from happening BEFORE they do. 💯
Here at Nutrition Next, we can help you with more tactics and tips to PLAN and keep emotional eating from crashing your healthy lifestyle. Shoot me an email to ask me how!
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