How to Stop Emotional Eating Identifying emotional eating triggers and bad eating habits is the first step; however, this alone is not sufficient to alter eating behavior. Usually, by the time you have identified a pattern, eating in response to emotions or certain situations has become a habit. Now you have to break that habit. Developing alternatives to eating is the second step. When you start to reach for food in response to an eating trigger, try one of the following activities instead. Read a good book or magazine or listen to music. Go for a walk or jog. Take a bubble bath. Do deep breathing exercises. Play cards or a board game. Talk to a friend. Do housework, laundry, or yard work. Wash the car. Write a letter. Or do any other pleasurable or necessary activity until the urge to eat passes.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:29:38 +0000
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