You are an emotional Eater-- and still stay slim

Surprisingly, emotional food must be a problem, says Michelle may, m.d. ItStep way this TV or iPad, so you complete you want to focus history HIGHLIGHTSAsk even if you really, really, really, really want to EatWhen, you eat to feel good, make feel you good. Then move OnRELATED TOPICSDiet and NutritionHealth and FitnessMental HealthEating errors (health.com)-your idea for a good time a poor day a dulce de leche ice up to a fudge brownie stacked is. You are not eating, because you are hungry, and you are not sure, try to get your recommended daily allowance of calcium. Nope, you are digging in as creamy SIP for some strange reason you feel happy each makes. Is it really so bad? Surprisingly, emotional food has no problem, says Michelle may, m.d., author of "eat, what you love, love what you eat." "Try, yourself to only you overeating for a larger speak the mood food from getting a boost problem- as bingeing,", she says. You can comfort you with food and thin with this simple principles to stay. Health.com: 25 destruction should never eat diet food you, why we our snack "look way we hardwired, food emotional reasons," says may. "From the moment you are born and your mother keeps you close to feed you, an emotional connection between fed be and loved." That is, why it is counterproductive, the people say, "Just don't do it." "The festivities, which we are most tendons packed with powerful natural chemicals, joy Express." Chocolate, contains such as serotonin and other happy-making neurotransmitters, anandamide. And as soon as these double fudge brownie makes its way in your stomach, your body responds with a rush of endorphins, so that you have a kind of snacker's high. Health.com: How to make chocolate a healthy pleasure Tip 1: emo food only what you before you love crack open the Ben & Jerry's, but what do the four really gets "Test": ask is if you really, really, really, really want it. ", Help them hold, grasp, what is you", she says. "Reach for something that you really don't need, and you're likely more to eat because it is not satisfactory." That is the risk of answering demand with a lighter version of what you want or with something else as a whole. Not only it will defeat you type purpose a gooey you behandeln-- with the bonus of taking back a happy time in such a way that only you eat can - but it is for a pig-out sets. "If I have not hungry, but I need a little joy in my life, is ridiculous eat a rice cake?" May asks. "Not only I don't need that fuel, but it is also not the pleasure I have." At all. Health.com: Boost your mood with these food Tip 2: make your mind step away want to eat this laptop, TV, iPad, bubbles, so you can fully focus on the treatment. Here is the reason: If you enjoy any moment, everything about you, take, "then the real reason you are there food served is not", may explained and you will be other high-calorie food-type all to mention more of them. Tip 3: non you eat on an empty stomach, although what you for die are a piece of carrot cake is, play the role of your mother and tell you that, until you have finished your dinner. "If you had a nice meal with protein, vegetables and a healthy fats, your dessert a better chance of emotionally satisfying, has," says Julia Ross, Director of the clinic system recovery in Mill Valley, California, and author of "the cure diet." "But a lot of women skip meals to save calories and go directly to the dessert, spikes, then crashes so their blood glucose levels, and they end up going back for seconds and thirds." "In the course of time they are calories save." Go back for another and others also helps you scary close to emotional food danger zone: overeat. "It is not damage, meeting with Lebensmitteln--need if it is chronic or extreme", says Ross. Health.com: Food (Yes, food!) to lose weight Tip 4: bag the guilt will it the pleasure of your show off strip. "No one should feel guilty if they eat celebrate or feel comfort," Ross says. Also make hate for lovers, that chocolate shake (calorie) boost need a different mood you. It comes to this: If you leave food, to feel you good feel. I take.Copyright health magazine 2010