Why we’re over-eating.
“If you want to prolong your life, shorten your meals,” advised the world-famous American politician Benjamin Franklin. However, many people break this commandment every day from year to year, sometimes scolding themselves, but not having the strength to moderate their appetite.
It’s not that bad
If you don’t think your overeating attacks are so critical, try to help yourself. Start with a simple diary. Psychologists recommend that you write down everything you’ve eaten for 24 hours in detail. In doing so, note the situation in which you have eaten and the feelings you have had.
Analyze your behavior: maybe you want to eat when you are bored? Or maybe you really wanted to drink or sleep, but you chose to score an unpleasant sucking feeling with a snack?
Remember when you don’t even think about food in your life? Analyze your day schedule, maybe it’s too much time for night meals and you just need to go to bed early? How else can you think of calming yourself in moments of anxiety other than a cup of coffee and a sandwich?
To prevent you from trying to eat your anxiety with another cake after reading the above, we’re in a hurry to calm you down. According to psychologists, people with a small (5-6 kg) excess weight and physically and psychologically much healthier than those who are underweight. Such people live longer and cope with stress better.
it’s easier to overeat stress, than a person can’t eat because of anxiety, even small piece of it doesn’t go down his throat. The second group of people has even worse mental and physical condition. Probably, we live because our ancestors had an opportunity to accumulate fat deposits and spend them in the period of hunger. But this is no reason for us to accumulate weight more than those healthy 5-6 kilograms and bring them up to 50-60. We are able to correct our relations with the world, with others and with food. We are able to fill our lives with interesting activities, joyful events, and then food will cease to act as a regulator of emotional state.
It’s important to understand that overeating, bulimia is an example of addictive behavior. It is akin to drug addiction, only food is used as a drug.
Psychologists note that the unhealthy nervous overeating of a person is not caused by one, but usually by a complex of reasons. Among them – a modern passion for complex cooking. Everyone prepares everything and everywhere, on TV there is no channel where there would be no cooking program. Unwittingly, you think that somehow it is simply to be content with simple buckwheat porridge, when others cook wise sauces and invent dishes from a huge set of the most unexpected ingredients.
