How to defeat emotional eating is the final video on the series on eating disorders, eating disordered behaviors, and diets.

The strongest food cravings hit when you're at your weakest point emotionally. Some people cope with difficult situations by reaching for comfort food.

How do people who are emotionally eating usually feel before they seek for food?

😩 Depressed
😰 Anxious

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❗

Carbohydrates, especially sugars and pleasurable foods, increase neurotransmission in the brain which helps anxiety and depression.

The solution depends on the occasion. This video reveals the best way to fight emotional eating at home alone, and also the best way to deal with emotional eating when you are out at an event.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞:

If you are home alone, you need to make a plan to stop emotional eating. Choice mapping, a proven strategy I developed is all about making choices and overcoming mental and eating disorders. You need to think about how you are going to stop emotional eating.

One of the tips I mentioned in the video is to take the pain that you are trying to suppress and instead, feel it!  Something is boiling in you and you dig deep down and figure out the triggers for emotional eating and binge eating.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭:

If you are trying to manage your anxiety at a social event where there are too many emotional triggers, you need to slow down. In this video, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞❗