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H ealt H Learn New Habits to Stop Emotional Eating Julie Cascio UAF Cooperative Extension Service
The key to breaking a habit of stress-eating is first identifying what triggers your emotional eating, and then adopting practical strategies.
You feel stressed out. You are bored. Or you are angry at your spouse. So you walk a short distance to the fridge, swing open the door and look for a solution. Is it the leftover lasagna? That pint of premium ice cream in the freezer? TO STOP EMOTIONAL EATING, identify what triggers the behavior and adopt practical strategies to go to healthier foods and habits. Some strategies on how to stop stress eating are: 1. Substitute your stress snacks: Have “go to” emotional eating foods easy to find. Baby carrots or apple slices in plastic baggies in the front of the fridge can be grabbed quickly. A bowl of fresh fruit on the kitchen counter or dining room table is another option. 2. Chew gum when you’re triggered to eat: Chewing is an essential part of the eating experience. 3. Relax: Having a hot shower or a soak in a tub can be helpful. Another strategy is creating a playlist or CD of your favorite music. Relax into the music until your cravings subside. 4. Be mindful: Become more aware of your eating triggers and behaviors, enjoy your food, and stop when you are satiated. 5. Exercise rather than eat: Go out for a walk or jog, hope on a bike, do yoga or tai chi are a few suggestions. 6. Shift your attention elsewhere: Mentally distract yourself from cravings by playing solitaire or a computer game, catching up on social media and news, knitting or other hobby activities, organizing a messy closet, or doing chores.
Emotional Eating Habits Trigger Points
An emotional eating habit forms when a stimulus connects to a behavior. Susan B. Roberts, PhD, Tufts University shares. “You happen to have chocolate when you’re stressed
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Stress is not the only trigger for emotional eating. Other possibilities include anxiety, anger, loneliness, depression, fear, procrastination, or boredom. Even positive emotions, like excitement or desire, can be triggers. “Thinking about triggers is a way of getting out of the ‘autopilot’ state of mind that leads to emotional eating,” says Debra Safer, MD, Stanford University Medical Center.
Once the autopilot is turned off, you can start to develop healthier responses to cravings, like substituting healthy snacks for unhealthy foods and using music or exercise to relax. “The key is not to be judgmental about the problem, because that does not help,” Safer says. “Accepting it is a lot of the solution.” That’s because self criticism leads to discomfort that can trigger more emotional eating.
Roberts also points to the importance of not judging yourself harshly. “If you find that what you planned to do as your substitute behavior and find it does not work, it’s not that you’re hopeless and it’s never going to work,” Roberts says. “It’s just that the substitute you tried wasn’t the right substitute. Just try to keep at it to find something that will work for you.”
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