Emotional Eating, Eating Uncontrolled Due To Emotional Encouragement

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JAKARTA - Eating activities are carried out because of hunger. Unlike emotional eating that is driven by emotional conditions.

Generally, negative emotional conditions such as stress, depression, saturation, boredom, sadness, and others cause eating to become uncontrollable.

Eating is done to get the nutrients the body needs. When doing daily activities, of course the body needs more nutrients than when it is silent.

According to Healtline, eating that is driven by hunger and emotional is difficult to distinguish.

If someone eats regularly every day and recognizes each portion of each, when experiencing emotional eating, it will certainly be easier to recognize. Perhaps the causes will also be more recognized and easier to resolve.

When experiencing situations that require high alertness, the body naturally releases the hormone cortisol. This hormone is also a trigger for eating a lot based on emotional urges.

In the end, people will look for foods that make them more comfortable. In addition to increased appetite for food, the mind also becomes difficult to focus.

Emotional eating is likely to determine the number of scales that represent body weight. Especially if you constantly eat based on emotional conditions, not because of hunger. Which means further, the decline in body and mental health needs to be addressed immediately.

As many as 40 percent of people who feel stressed will eat more without thinking. While the remaining 40 percent prefer to eat less and 20 percent do not experience changes in their diet when experiencing stress.

Indirectly, emotional eating is formed from the pattern of environmental life. Since childhood, if people closest to you often offer delicious or comfort food when you are sad or other negative emotions, it will become a habit.

This habit is formed from consuming delicious food as a reward for having had a hard time.

What's worse, eating a lot out of control and in secret is called binge eating.

These two eating disorders have the same causes, but different responses. If emotional eating is still choosing certain foods that are comforting. But binge eating can consume large amounts of food.

Other eating disorders, for example, anorexia are also influenced not only by emotional and psychological conditions. Hormonal factors also influence, such as serotonin levels, which suppress appetite to an extreme.

The problem of eating is basically related to two aspects. What is clearly visible is the physical condition, such as hormonal interference, and the mental condition of a person.

To overcome this, it is necessary to recognize hunger and find positive ways to improve mood.