We cannot go through life linking our eating habits to how we feel

A study that recently arrived at Ukmedix News examined people who are termed “emotional eaters”. These are the sort of people who tend to consume a lot when they are feeling sad or lonely. The researchers who studied these types of people said they are likely to only lose a small amount of weight on weight loss diets and tend to put it all back on again pretty soon.

The researchers said that when people said that they eat in response to how they feel and how they are thinking, they are likely to lose less weight when compared to people who eat a lot for external reasons. The researchers looked that almost 300 overweight males and females in a special behavioural weight loss project.

At Ukmedix News we have often spoken about the fact that much of the weight loss battle and the challenge involved in sticking to your diet is in your head and that you must primarily take control of your emotions and feelings and not link them to when you eat, how much you eat or what you eat.

This new research project that was done at The Miriam Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University only confirms what so many of us already know. We have all heard of people who say that they put on a lot of weight when they broke up with their boyfriend, lost a parent or lost their job or were dealing with another stressful situation. We cannot go through life linking our eating habits to how we feel if we want to maintain a healthy weight all the time.

At the same time we don’t believe that you should never have a cheeseburger or an ice cream but you must be in control of what you are eating and not overdo it just because of some incident in your day that is causing you to get emotional.