The brain chooses a source of pleasure to escape from negative emotions. This source is sometimes food. If there is no biological factor behind this situation and you think it is just psychological, eating may protect you from a bad feeling. If you find and work on your bad feelings, your tendency to engage in this action will decrease. If you live in the moment and focus on the pleasure of the moment, your dependence on things will decrease. Now ask yourself what bad feeling you are protecting yourself from by eating even when you are not hungry and don't feel like eating!
When a person feels bad feelings, he may want to eat like crazy. It especially prefers carbohydrate foods. For example, you don't say "I was upset and I ate lettuce or tomato"; He says, "I ate a hamburger, I ate kunefe, I ate Nutella." From where? Because he wants to take something containing glucose. Glucose is the food of our brain and when we eat things containing glucose, the hormone insulin is secreted in our body. The more glucose the brain receives, the better it can focus on external stimuli. As a person takes care of the outside world, he escapes from the bad feelings within himself. In other words, when he eats sweets while feeling bad, he breaks away from his inner world with the secretion of glucose and begins to deal with the outside world.
As insulin is secreted, some amino acids emerge as glucose passes into the brain; dopamine and serotonin are the most famous. That's why chocolate relaxes and pasta relaxes. For example, if you eat kebab without bread, it will not make you feel better, but if you eat it with bread, you will feel better. That's why a person with emotional problems who comes to therapy consumes plenty of carbohydrates. He also gains weight. He goes to a dietitian and loses 5 kilos, but because he does not study the emotion behind his eating, he gains 8 kilos back.
Because he ate to escape his inner world and did not face the emotion that caused him to eat. Hoping that you will find your true feelings and that it will be useful…
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