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Comfort eating is generally about using food to avoid confronting something, or to fill some emotional void in your life that you cannot seem to cope with in a more constructive manner.
Unfortunately, food will not satisfy your underlying issues in the long run, and eating for comfort only provides temporary relief. After the food is gone the problem still exists, and if your over-eating is resulting in weight gain, you may feel even more depressed. Most of us have 'bad' feelings - ones that are painful or difficult to face up to so that we do whatever we can to suppress them. For many people, food is the substance that gives distraction and short-term relief.
Food may have featured in your life for many years as a comfort.
Perceived in this way, food may temporarily help to reduce emotional
pain or discomfort. However, the real emotions eventually manifest
themselves in a variety of dysfunctional ways. Learning to cope with
those feelings at the onset will help you to overcome your weight
difficulties.
When the process of suppression of emotions
begins in childhood, you tend to grow up being completely out of touch
with your feelings, thus you begin to experience an emptiness that can
spiral into an eating dysfunction. When you were sad, biscuits and milk
may have been offered to you to 'feel better'. This learned pattern of
using food to feel better has followed many of us into our adult life.
If you are eating for comfort, the most important part of your weight loss journey is to:
A significant step in feeling-management that often leads to eating-management is learning to identify the feelings that you use food to deal with.
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