In our continued stream of thinking along nutrition and my continually belief that confession is good for the soul...I am an emotional eater. When it rains, it pours highly carbohydrated snack foods in a Noah's Ark style flood. In order for me to achieve the success of my goal weight and maintain that healthy, the one thing I have to find control over is my emotional eating. I tend to eat when the stresses of life become overwhelming.
So here are 3 alternatives to eating my weight in snack foods:
1) Workout - pop in a DVD and sweat it out. Pushing my physical fitness and releasing endorphin keeps me from binging.
2) Run - while similar to working out, running allows me to put my body on cruise control and engage my mind in some thinking and processing. It gives a chance to escape to another place (both physically and mentally) and avoid the snacks.
3) Laugh - The proverb says that laughter is good medicine. Being able to find humor in laugh is healthy. While whatever the situation was may not have be funny at all, there is plenty in life to find laughter in. So laugh, smile, and take your hands away from the sweets and salty.
I have not perfected being an overcomer of emotional eater. I am working on it. I try to use these alternatives to stuffing my face. In an honest reflection, I really don't feel any better by eating. While I satisfy my taste buds, I upset my belly and worse really don't emotionally feel any better. (SAD FACE)
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