It is important to know the difference between hunger and anxiety. Many people eat compulsively and this can be due to several factors. The positive part is that it can be fixed being aware of them and adopting an attitude of change.
What should I do to avoid food cravings?
Have a proper breakfast
It is very important start the day with a good breakfast, to avoid the excessive need to eat mid-morning. When we have a proper breakfast, we avoid that, after a short time, lower our blood glucose level. This drop can cause irritability and anxiety. In addition, complying as it should with the first intake of the day, we will provide the necessary energy to our body.
attend to your emotions
When we ignore what our body wants to transmit to us, a tension is generated that has to come out somewhere. It happens to many people. And it is that the problems they ignore seem to be able to be solved through food. This is not the best solution and must be remedied. A practice that you can carry out is to write down everything that worries you. Forget aesthetics and literature. Write taking out everything you carry inside and the thoughts that your emotions generate in you. Once you've gotten it out of you, you may not need to binge eat.
Make the purchase consciously
The more complete and varied your purchase is, the better your diet will be. Carrying out a good diet encourages not to fall into whims and bad habits. If you know that you have food to sin in the pantry, you will end up sinning more. In a moment of anxiety it is difficult to put the brake on, but it is even more so, knowing that your kitchen is full of temptations.
opt for liquids
When you feel that sudden urge to eat, choose to drink water or infusions. Another option is to drink some homemade smoothie or broth. Don't let your anxiety fool you and outsmart it.
Accept your anxiety but don't settle
Talk to yourself and acknowledge your anxiety. Once you have located it, consciously, it will be easier for you to get rid of it. Stop and breathe, explain to yourself that what you feel is not hunger, and drink a glass of water. Don't fall into temptation. Be strong and let it pass.
But how do I know if I'm anxious or hungry?
Hunger
- appears from Progressive form.
- You have the need to eat abstractly, You don't need a specific food.
- You can postpone the intake, you don't feel hungry urgently.
- By the end, you feel sated At this point you would not continue eating.
- You feel satisfaction by the end. You have fulfilled a need.
The anxiety
- appears from sudden way.
- you have the need to eat something specific (and surely not a piece of fruit).
- you need to eat urgently.
- You eat so eagerly that when you finish you are invaded by culpability. It was not a necessity.