Choosing Healthier Foods as an Emotional Eater
You may have already come to terms with the fact that you are an emotional eater. You may have also tried ways to stop it and, for whatever reason, had very little luck. One way that you can help your emotional eating from becoming a huge stress in your life, or from becoming a major weight gain issue, is to choose healthier foods. Here are a few ways to choose healthier foods and have them ready when your emotional eating kicks in.
Find Healthy Replacements
There are several eat this not that style books on the market. Take a chance on a few and look for replacements for things like ice cream, cookies, cake, and pastas. These are the foods that are increasingly common during emotional eating sessions and can have the most negative effect on your overall weight. By finding replacements, like greek yogurt for ice cream, you may still be having the emotional eating session but your food will be healthier.
Make the Replacement Real
You can go through books, make notes, and look at replacement foods all day. If you don’t make the actual change to the diet, then those replacement options are worthless. Instead of just doing the research, make sure you replace the food. Do a purge of your kitchen and food stash. Get rid of the cookies, candies, cakes, pastas, ice creams, and other foods. Get rid of processed foods that can have an abundance of sodium or sugars. Once you have purged your pantry, replace the items with the options you found. Now, your pantry is stocked and you can only go for the foods that are there. If the bad foods are gone, you are only left with the better choices.
Busy Foods
One of the ways to choose healthier foods as an emotional eater is to look for busy foods. These are the foods that are healthy, but require more time to chew and digest than others. They usually are also the same foods that fill you up faster as well. For example, carrot sticks are an item that is a busy food. You can’t just take two bites and two chews and swallow them. You really have to chew up and take your time with something like carrots or other hard vegetables. They fill you up decently well, offer natural fiber, and are good for your digestive system. By choosing these foods you will eat less, eat better, clean your system, and help with weight gain.
These are only three of the options to finding healthier foods for your emotional eating issues. However, by putting these three steps into action you can effectively reduce the amount of food you consume during an emotional eating binge as well as increase the overall healthy aspects of those foods and their toll on your body.
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