Even if I tried to eat less, I still feel I fail in my diet goals. Some people say I do reduce in size, but my pants will tell me the reality. So, I tried to look for answers to the reasons behind it.
Basically, there are many reasons why diets fail, including that they’re usually not conceived to offer results in the long run, but rather almost instantly. Like I said even if we met all conditions for a sustainable weight loss, we might still have problems with dropping pounds and that’s because, on some level, we’ve become accustomed to dealing with emotions through food, Shape magazine says.
Health experts and nutritionists agree: many of us use food to deal with the things happening in our life and we’re not necessarily talking here of movie-like scenarios. On some level or another, we all have moments when we deal with emotions with the help of food, even if only on rare occasions like, say, when we crave some chocolate to boost our mood. Well, this holds true to me as I always love to eat ice cream or chocolate cake when I feel happy.
Consequently, in order to lose weight, we need to make sure we’re not eating for the wrong reasons, so to speak. “We’ve all heard the phrase ‘emotional eating.’ It brings to mind the heartbroken woman working her way through an entire box of chocolates after being dumped, the homesick college student finishing off a large pizza, or the recently laid-off friend making her way to the bottom of a bag of sour cream and onion potato chips while trying to pay her bills. But most emotional eating takes place on a far more subtle scale – which may be the reason you can’t drop those last 5, 10, or 25 pounds,” Shape writes.
So, in order to make sure that the combination of diet / healthy eating and working out does not fail, we also need to learn to change our relationship with food, if it’s one that leads us to overindulging when we don’t know how to cope with certain emotions.
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