Eating your emotions

‘Eating your emotions’ is very expressive as our emotions dictate the way we eat, sleep and socialize. Happiness draws a smile on your face, excitement gives you an adrenaline rush, stress raises your blood pressure, and sadness stops you from enjoying life.

You must be wondering what is the link between food and emotions, well food is a way of expressing emotions.Eating less or excessively in sad moments differs from one person to another yet feelings can be reflected by the amount of food we eat. For some people, healthy meals depends on mood for example when dining in a nice place surrounded by friends they eat quality foods but at work fast food is the first thing that comes into their mind due to the stressful environment.

Extreme relations between food and emotions lead to eating disorders whereby eating becomes problematic. Anorexia nervosa is a condition whereby food is considered the enemy and resisting it is a sign of victory. Bulimia nervosa is reflected by the abstinence of eating followed by excess episodes of binges sometimes with purging creating guilt and shame.

I would advise parents to refrain from criticizing a child’s weight or eating habit but rather give a good example of positive relationship with food. Moms should not constantly complain from body image issues in front of their child, because that will definitely affect the child’s psychology thus creating eating disorders.

Psychology and food are very closely related, obesity epidemics are due to psychological issues more than physical.New trends in fashion have led ladies to fear curves seeking all available weight loss methods for a permanent Barbie morphology. Women should stop torturing themselves to fit the mold imposed by society.

Comfort foods such as ;cookie, chips, creamy soups, cakes, chocolate, ice cream and biscuits are more and more associated with direct relief to sadness. Marketing campaigns are targeting comfort and constant hunger to promote processed food. Eating a cookie is a perfectly healthy behavior that will not affect happiness or sadness but eating the whole cookie jar is a sign of hormone imbalance resulting from a potential psychological problems.

In some cases the guilt feeling that appears after a piece of cake pushes people to overeat as if that was the last time they experience this kind of culinary pleasure.

Most ladies consider being chubby to failing ,and failure to a miserable life.Those negative thoughts come from media influence which portrayed thinness as a sign of happiness and success.Happiness is not physical but a mental state.

Fat and sadness are not directly related.Some people are just happy the way they are and are not aiming to hit the catwalk any time soon.

It is paramount to eat what your body needs rather than what your mood requires.

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