Have you ever been upset and found yourself automatically drifting toward the refrigerator? Or has someone really made you angry, and again you automatically drift toward the refrigerator. We all know that during a celebration we eat anyway. Birthdays, major holidays, even on vacations and especially during a cruise.
We are very emotional beings and most of us eat in response to an emotional trigger. Quite a few emotional ingredients are present in our eating habits. Many more are present in our bad eating habits. In this article we will look at some of our emotions and how they surface as eating disorders.
We are conditioned through years of exposure to family, friends and TV advertising. Food has become a feel good thing. However, when considering emotional eating, we use food to fill another totally different void. We use it to fill an emotional need that should be filled using other methods.
A fine line exists between emotional eating and full blown eating disorders. Binge eaters, also known as compulsive eaters, are usually heavy emotional eaters. They go above and beyond the behaviors of normal emotional eating.
Certain characteristics are prevalent in people who have full blown eating disorders. Chiefly, they eat a lot of food, and they eat it fast. Amazingly, they do feel out of control concerning food and tend to obsess about it.
Do you know anyone who hides food around the house? Or better yet, they eat in hiding? How about those who slip into the kitchen when everyone else is asleep? Emotional eaters and those with eating disorders may have experienced a traumatic event in their lives.
This event could have been physical or even sexual abuse. Research has shown that the number of people with eating disorders who have experienced abuse is higher than those who suffer with simple emotional eating.
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