emotional eating

Emotional Eating – Especially Difficult For Many During The Holidays

Millions of people are affected by emotional eating in their everyday lives. Compound that with the holidays and you can find yourself packing on a lot of extra weight over the 5 weeks or so of celebrating. It’s not just the treats and parties that lead to this time of year being when people gain the most weight of anytime of year. If you have an emotional eating problem, the euphoria of the holidays assists but for many it also brings on extra stress, anger or even worse, sadness and depression. Not everyone has a perfect family with a white picket fence. But using food anytime of year to control emotions of any kind is never a good idea. We become so programmed over the years that there is a good chance you do not even realizer you have an emotional eating problem, Below you will find ideas on how to become aware and try to help control your emotional eating habits.