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Emotional eating: physical or psychological

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A low body weight can be pleasing to the eye and also healthy by reducing the possibility of acquiring obese related illnesses like type 2 diabetes, cancer or heart attacks / stroke in later life.

However, caution is urged when it comes to extreme weight loss strategies and using physical chemical enhances / diet pills or laxatives to succeed in weight loss.  Eating a balanced meal is an effective way of controlling your weight for most people, whilst raising their confidence overall but be warned, there are concerns about developing obsessive thoughts about food and weight loss which could then become an unhealthy psychological response to a healthy pursuit.

Weightloss has been repeatedly reported by the media and there isn’t any shortage of ultra thin models exhibited in glossy magazines which gives young females a distorted body image of themselves on the whole.  There certainly no shortage of new unique diet fads or exercise schemes available to help you lose that weight and we have no hesitation in accepting this because it has been endorsed by some celebrity we totally trust and respect.

However, this had done nothing to stem the epidemic of obesity in the USA and Western Europe. The Kings fund London (2002) report had stated that obesity in men increased by 23% and 42% for women between 1995 to 2005 making almost a quarter of the female population within the UK overweight.

Ideally, most individuals should be able to maintain a healthy weight but it appears most need to lose weight and this can only be achieved by learning new strategies without the need to continually keep reducing their calorie intake below the recommended healthy level.

There is certainly good solid evidence to suggest that the majority of those who diet to lose weight will fail to keep the weight off over an extended period and they will eventually have a higher weight gain in the future.

Even athletes concerned in sporting / weight controlled categories in judo, boxing or weight lifting that need to reach a certain body weight to compete in competitions will continually fall into this dietary weight loss trap.

It not uncommon for them to crash diet prior to the weigh in and this dietary practice can be detrimental to their long-term health with dehydration and reduced energy levels on the day giving them a poor competitive performance overall.

Those who succeed in losing large bouts of weight over a prolonged period does not simple include the Gladiator that continually drops down a weight category prior to their weigh-in but also the persistent yo-yo dieter.   However, they are condemned to a life of weight obsession with mood swings and chronic hunger.

Such behaviour which include binging as well as compulsive dieting are often linked to negative emotional problems but is emotional eating always has poignant as we initially considered. It is considered that individuals experiencing negative emotions which include stress, frustration or depression may tend to binge on unhealthy foods which are low in nutrition.

This could be due to changes in their mood lowering their blood sugar levels that in term provoke the craving for sugary foods like biscuits, bread or chocolate to replenish the sugar levels.   However, what actually caused them to binge.  Did the individual mood (comfort eating) or their sugar levels responsible for the eating frenzy.

I have previously written about how emotional eating is linked to cognitive and learned experiences, extending from childhood.  For example, repeated offering of sweet foods as a childhood treat or pacifier is undoubtedly possible for individuals associating sweet foods with certain emotions.

In order to control their eating behaviour, it is important to determine the extent in which emotions play a part in dietary control.  There is link reported within the journal of eating disorders (2000) that poor dietary management and stress with coping strategies in daily life are closely related to each other.

Perhaps it is clear that diet does not simple consist of calorie control but also emotional and psychological parameters must also be taken into consideration if you want to succeed.

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