Benefits of Emotional Eating

 

Welcome to Funky About Food, Nutrition Therapy! I’m Lynn Penrose, RD, here to help you dissolve your food funk!

Today, I’m talking about a solution for the funk factor, Food Emotion Commotion, which is eating, or not eating in a way so you don’t have to feel uncomfortable emotions.

So, let me ask you a question, what are the benefits of emotional eating? You may say there are no benefits of emotional eating, that you hate doing it and feel awful after you do it, however, you never engage in any behavior that doesn’t help you in some way!

I asked some people what they get out of emotional eating, and this is what they said…
“I can get rid of a lot of anger just by eating peanut M&M’s!”
“I eat to distract myself, for example, I come home from a long day at work, I make a big bowl of pasta or popcorn, anything to distract me from reality!”
“My almond butter does soothe me!”

These are great reasons why we engage in the behavior and this is exactly why it is so hard to stop! Going at your funky food behavior from this angle, understanding how it’s helping you, is the first step towards dissolving it!

So, I have to ask, how does your emotional eating help you?

Stay tuned for more free nutrition therapy, so together we can dissolve your food funk!