Eating as entertainment is often referred to as emotional eating, which means using food to fulfill some other emotional need like loneliness, boredom, or sadness. You might sit in front of the TV and eat a whole pack of cookies. Or, you might find yourself eating a gallon of ice cream that one weekend when all of your friends are too busy to hang out. Emotional eating can lead to problems losing weight or result in you gaining unwanted pounds. if you are having problems with eating to entertain yourself, you need to learn how to [[Eat Healthy | develop a healthier approach to eating]].
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== Steps ==
===Coping with Emotional Eating===
#Don 't beat yourself up about emotional eating. At some point another, all people
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#*Rather than criticizing your mistakes, show yourself compassion. Remind yourself that you are only human and we all make mistakes. Acknowledge that you engaged in emotional eating and, after that, let it go. Don 't hold on to the mistake. Make a plan to do better starting now.http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/05/05/3-ways-to-quiet-self-criticism/
#Try to identify the underlying need. If you are eating emotionally, there is some need being left unfulfilled. Take a moment to assess your current feelings. Are you lonely or missing someone? Did you have a hard day or receive some bad news? Maybe you have an impending deadline that is freaking you out and you turn to food to cope with the stress. Whatever the emotional cause is for your eating, you must acknowledge it in order to change the
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Getting rid of these foods makes the process easier to not eat for entertainment.
#Fill your kitchen with healthy, nutritious snacks. Keep healthy foods at reach that offer your body beneficial vitamins and nutrients like fruits and vegetables, lean sources of protein, low-fat dairy, and whole grains.http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/how-to-eat-healthy/art-20046590 Eating a well-balanced diet of healthy foods will also minimize cravings for unhealthy foods filled with sugar, salt, or fat.[[Image:Stop Viewing Eating As Entertainment Step 4.jpg|center]]
#*While any form of emotional eating is unhealthy, you are less likely to beat yourself up if you overeat on grapes as opposed to a bag of cookies.
#Track what you eat. Use a mobile app or online web tool that allows you to track what you eat. Awareness is the first step in changing unhealthy eating behaviors. Therefore, if you get an idea of what foods you are eating and when, you can come up with a strategy to prevent emotional eating before it
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Two psychological approaches/perspectives with reference to the critical issues of eating disorders to be discussed are the cognitive and psychodynamic approaches. There are several eating disorders and the most common two of them are Anorexia Nervosa involving the irrational fear of being extensively overweight and Bulimia Nervosa involving periods of binge eating when food is excessively eaten within a two hour period than would normally be eaten in that time. This paper will seek to understand and describe cognitive and psychodynamic approaches whilst also comparing and contrasting the differences between the two.
Binge Eating Disorder also known as Compulsive Eating Disorder, is a disorder in which a person uses food to deal with their stress and other negative emotions. A person affected from Binge Eating Disorder will secretly and compulsively overeat large amounts of food even if they were not hungry at all. During a Bingeing Episode, it could last several hours or all day, and can be reoccurring several times in one week. Often the foods that are consumed are “comfort foods” such as cookies, chips, candy, etc. Aside from the disorder there are its symptoms, who is affected, age of onset, causes, potential treatment methodology, and several resources for help. (Smith, Segal, and J. Segal; February 2014)
There may be murmurs about that girl who only fixes herself a salad with only vinegar at dining services or suspicious glances at someone who spends 45 minutes on the treadmill and then switches to the stair stepper at the rec. On-campus eating disorders are talked about everywhere and yet are not really talked about at all. There is observation, concern, and gossip, but hushed conversation and larger scale efforts to help and change never seem to earn public attention.
Scottt, Elizabeth. “Stress and Emotional Eating: What Causes Emotional Eating?”. Web. 07. June. 2010. http://stress.about.com/od/unhealthybehaviors/a/eating.htm
Diet is possibly one of the hardest things for people, including myself, to control. Every corner you turn while driving down the street has a different fast food restaurant to tempt you. Even if you avoid the temptation and make it to the store, then every corner you turn offers a new food that is filled with sodium and unnatural materials. My current diet is pretty much opposite of most recommendations. The few things that I normally would fall in line with, in terms of a healthy diet, are eating lean meats, poultry, and eggs along with low-fat/fat-free milk products. I lack many fruits, vegetables, and low sodium foods in my diet. Ellis (p. 322) states, “How you eat can matter more than what you eat. If you want to eat less, then eat slowly. Savor each bite. Stop when you’re satisfied instead of when you feel full.” These are strong words that stand out to me because every day it seems like I eat more than I should and I eat it fast. With that being said, my action plan will be to incorporate the beneficial items I am ...
Many efforts to address emotional eating have emphasized the importance of effective mood regulations skills to enhance one’s ability to tolerate stress or negative mood without using food to cope (Telch, Agras, & Linehan, 2001). Only within the past 20 years has research focused on applying more traditional learning processes to the development and maintenance of emotional eating. The primary difference between these perspectives, as exemplified by the Davidson model, is the de-emphasis of cognitions and motivations for eating (e.g., to escape negative mood) in the learning models, such as the classical conditioning model.
Food is a major part of everyone’s everyday life. It’s hard to imagine life without the chocolate cake on your fingers or a carne asada taco in your mouth. Enjoying delicious desserts and fast food seem extremely magnificent to eat and spend money buying them. Although, there have been many controversies in the United States on how it’s the largest country with the most obesity regarding children, which affects their health, many people are still going throughout their day snacking. Many people in America are having full course meals with thousands of calories in one sitting not knowing the short term or long term side effects that are going to take a huge toll on their lives. Food is delicious, but it comes with a secret behind the savoriness/sweetness.
Use your food records to identify triggers that cause you to feel psychological hunger. These can be people or situations. Knowing your triggers is very important because they become stronger each time you reinforce them with food. You might have to express your needs for support and encouragement from certain people more clearly and train them by offering suggestions that fit your needs. Including them in your journey can strengthen your relationship and avoid hurtful miscommunications or resentment to your
One way the population of America can overcome the issue of obesity is by simply eating healthier. Further explained, people can start making healthier decisions on what they decide to eat. An example would be choosing to eat an apple over a bowl of ice cream. This is often easier said than done. Sugars and sodium counts are very high inside the foods that can only satisfy a sweet tooth. The ingestion of carbohydrates, saturated fat, and trans fat are very easy to overlook. The food pyramid is a great visual of what people should be eating daily in order to maintain a healthful way of life. Whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and protein should become the main focus at every meal. Another way to eat healthier is to follow the suggested serving size by eating smaller portions. By law it is required for food-producing companies to place a label on their products with a listing of the serving size and ...
Such emotions that can cause harm to an individual is depression and sadness. When an individual overconsumes food, the individual may express such emotions that causes harm to their health. Becoming addicted to food can harm the life of an individual as the emotions that are express from overconsuming food can easily affect their daily life. Such experience is normally shown in the life of a teen who loves food but chooses to ignore the consequences that comes along with the
It is astonishing how little time is spent by an individual physically looking at the food they are putting in to their body. The act of just sitting there alone and staring at one’s food is not interesting. Actually eating is dull and feels repetitive as all one is doing is biting the food, chewing, swallowing, and then the same actions repeat again. A person wants to be distracted with a restaurants nice view, a conversations with a friend, or even just watching their favorite television show in bed. So not only are you sitting or lying in that comfortable sedentary position, you have a distraction to keep you entertained from the lackluster act of eating, but also if you are not paying attention to what you are eating you can consume more food and at the same time not feel guilty about it. For instance, there is a difference in the way one feels about eating a bag of salty and fattening chips if they are actually physically staring at the chips and watching how many they are consuming compared to having their eyes glued to a television screen while the bag of chips is just next to them and they are consuming as they watch. You are more likely to feel guilty and have the urge to stop eating if you are actually looking with your eyes on what you are eating. Of course eating while watching entertainment is
Previously to taking this class, I had never given much thought to my eating habits. I always thought of the way I chose to eat as one of those things I didn’t need to concern myself with too heavily now because I’m a young broke college student. The way I eat is pretty similar to the way most of my friends eat and when you live away from home, that seems like the norm for people in college. However, after applying what I’ve learned in this class to my life, I’ve realized that the dietary choices I make now affect not only my current health, but my future health as well. So overall, I would say that my eating habits are pretty bad, but I’m working on making them better.
While I was tracking my eating for these three days, I began to learn about the benefits of the food that I am eating and the nourishment that they provide for my body. I had never realized how big of a role that the food that I eat plays in my everyday life. Eating has never been something that I really think about it is just something that I do. After I looking at the data of what I eat on Choose My Plate, I realized that my eating habits are far from balanced and that I needed to work on bringing my eating habits to a better balance. While there are a lot of things that I have been doing right, there are also many things that I can work on.
First, I will address the root issue of many people’s eating habits, and then I will expand on why and how to develop a healthier lifestyle.