Hello everyone. This week I want to talk to you about physical and emotional hunger. Do you only eat when you're hungry? Do your emotional changes push you to eat unhealthy things? Are you hungry physically or emotionally? So how can you tell the difference? Let's answer all these.
Emotional eating behavior occurs due to emotional changes rather than the feeling of hunger. Physical hunger, on the contrary, occurs when the feeling of hunger occurs and can be delayed or postponed. This situation occurs in emotional hunger as follows. When a person feels sad, unhappy, angry or angry, a desire to eat arises. Thus, rather than a situation that can be kept waiting, this hunger is actually used and not kept waiting instead of suppressing the emotions at that moment.
Individuals with emotional eating behavior want to calm these emotions by eating something immediately when they experience a change in emotion. In other words, this situation is far from enjoying and savoring the food they eat. Generally, the choices made are unhealthy choices such as hamburgers, pizza, chips, chocolate and junk food. The person may not realize what and how much he eats at that moment. A husband can even quickly finish a bag of chips or a large pizza. These sizes and quantities can increase much more. Therefore, when emotional eating ends, it leaves behind feelings of guilt and regret.
In physical hunger, this occurs depending on the previous meal. Hunger reveals itself gradually and is felt. It arises out of need. It does not specifically make healthy or unhealthy choices. In fact, choices in physical hunger depend entirely on a person's nutritional choices. Many foods can satisfy physical hunger. As soon as satiety is reached, the desire to eat ends and eating is not continued.
In emotional eating, the individual may insistently continue eating even if he/she reaches satiety. If such situations occur very frequently, this means that the body consumes too many calories. Remember that the excess of every calorie taken into the body is stored as fat.
In other words, physical hunger and emotional hunger are two different types of hunger that need to be distinguished from each other. Of course, not only when we are hungry, but sometimes even if we are not hungry, we have something to enjoy. We eat things. However, if we repeat this every time, especially in times of sadness, stress, anger, and continue eating until we calm down, if the only thing that comes to your mind at these moments is eating, then you may be experiencing emotional eating attacks.
Based on this information, if you think you have emotional eating attacks, you should definitely be experiencing emotional eating attacks. Get support from an expert psychologist on this subject.
Hoping that the diets that started on Monday continue, I wish you a good week.
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