How to know if you eat because of hunger or anxiety?
How to know if you eat because of hunger or anxiety?
Am I really hungry or is it just anxiety?
Many times we feel like eating and it is not because of hunger, but it can be a symptom of some alteration generated by stress or depression.
It is necessary to calm this impulse because it can lead us to gain weight and unbalance our body.
What we do is try to mitigate anxiety through food.
For that reason, many times the diets provoke discomfort, because it increases anxiety and deprives us of compulsively eating everything we want.
In other cases, many people have an extremely restrictive diet that does not let eat what we want, therefore, can generate anxiety as a symptom.
If we take a healthy and balanced diet with the amount of food needed, and eat the right amounts, it will not generate anxiety or guilt.
How to know if hunger is psychological or physiological?
Psychological hunger or anxiety.
It is known as the "snacking syndrome".
Eating without looking, in a hurry, at any time, without tasting, that behavior can lead to health problems such as indigestion or gastritis.
Apparently, they are gratifications that we make through food that substitute pleasure and guilt.
Also stress, anxiety and loneliness can be behind this excessive intake of food.
The foods we take in this case are usually unhealthy, and we usually call them cravings.
Physiological hunger
Real hunger occurs when the body asks us for the energy necessary to function.
It gives us warning signs, we need to eat food because we feel an empty stomach or stomach noises.
This type of hunger the body asks us for any type of food and not necessarily cravings, or caloric.
Avoid hunger by anxiety or control
Perform physical exercise
It is very beneficial to help relieve stress, minimize stress states and oxygenate, which will reduce anxiety about food.
Dehydration is often confused with anxiety.
It is advisable to consume enough liquid during the day without sugar, still water, herbal teas, etc.
Do not skip meals.
It is necessary to respect the meals such as: breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you can add food, but in that way you maintain a rhythm of intake every 3 hours.
Avoid coffee, cola drinks, green tea, since it increases the anxiety for its high content of caffeine and theine.
Try to always listen to your body to see if it really is hungry.
Try to relax, breathe, before resorting to taking food compulsively.
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