You eat with joy, you eat with sadness, sometimes you eat with worry, sometimes you eat with anger. Sometimes you eat even when your emotions are not intense. I am one of you too. I have been overweight and on a diet for as long as I can remember. I don't even start my attempts anymore, which fail every time. Of course, I get pressure from my relatives because of my weight. My wife even threatens me about this. He says he sees this as a reason for divorce. Children have also lost faith in me and that I will lose weight. I can say that I have been eating more, especially in the last few months. On my ordinary days, after a busy work schedule, doing housework and helping the children with their homework, I realized that I spent the few hours I had left before going to sleep by eating. I eat as much as I can to fill the feeling of emptiness that occurs inside me as soon as I sit in front of the TV and to relax a little in this way. As the clock approaches midnight, I have already finished the leftovers from dinner, eaten the snacks I bought for the children, and eaten the dessert sent by the neighbor but left untouched by the family. Which feeling do I experience each time: "Regret"... Then the promises I made to be more careful next time, even though I knew I couldn't keep them, and loss of self-confidence...
A physical warning The feeling of hunger pushes us to eat. It cannot be denied that our emotions are also very related to eating behavior. Therefore, we experience emotional hunger as well as physiological hunger. We may find ourselves eating as a result of both our positive and negative emotions. While celebrating happy news, trying to relieve fatigue at the end of a busy day, we choose to eat to get away from negative emotions such as restlessness and anxiety and ignore them. An important difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger is that it is not felt in the stomach like physical hunger, but is felt in the oral cavity and chest level. While physical hunger begins approximately four hours after a normal meal and gradually increases, emotional hunger occurs suddenly. During emotional hunger, a person may eat high-energy foods that he or she finds around him, that he would not normally like to eat, that he would not prefer to eat. That's why regret is often left behind. leaves the feeling. Impulsive eating behavior has been triggered. If triggered by negative emotions, eating behavior is often carried out secretly and at home. These people tend to gain weight throughout their lives and have poor weight control. Negative emotions are feelings such as sadness, disappointment, loneliness, regret, guilt, shame, tension, restlessness, anxiety. Understanding which emotions trigger an individual's eating behavior is also possible by understanding the individual's characteristics. Individuals whose ways of coping with negative life experiences are not sufficiently developed and who have difficulty in recognizing, expressing and managing their emotions may choose to resort to escape through eating behavior, and binge eating attacks may occur. He may choose not to be aware of what he is eating and how much he is eating by focusing his attention on another stimulus, such as television. He thinks that if he is not aware of his eating behavior, he can continue eating more easily. However, one of the things we need to cope with emotional eating behavior is awareness. Especially what goes through our minds and what we feel before eating will give us the reasons for our hunger. When we become aware of our thoughts and emotions and learn to separate them from each other, we can cope with the urge to eat, which we mistake for physical hunger. Over time, you may understand that hunger is a feeling from us, that we should not be afraid of it, and that we have the power within us to increase the time we tolerate it. Maybe what you need is love instead of a slice of cake, feeling safe instead of a plate of pasta, self-confidence instead of a pack of chips...
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