Sudden sweet cravings, remorse-guaranteed dinners, packets of chips or the love of chocolate that turns into addiction… Did you know that they all have an emotional response? Emotional nutrition coach Verda Çakan offers the key to healthy weight loss without the word diet.
Let’s start with the definition of emotional feeding. Can you describe emotional eating?
Emotional eating is a way of suppressing negative emotions by eating. This situation is mostly triggered by negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, anger, stress, sadness, fear, disappointment. If we cannot heal these feelings, the things we eat to suppress them turn into habits over time. But there are ways to help you manage your emotional appetite. Emotional eating isn’t just about controlling painful or irritating emotions. Some emotional eaters may reach for a tin of ice cream or a cookie jar as soon as any emotion becomes too strong. The important thing here is not to make this a habit.
So, you say that nutrition corresponds to other needs beyond a physical need. Why it happens?
Emotions are part of our intelligence and the most fundamental part of our lives. Therefore, when we ignore them, we turn to some specific foods because of the pleasure they awaken in our brain and the hormones they secrete. We prefer foods that seduce us. Nuts, for example, are an explanation of the lack of entertainment, chips or the foods we crack are among the foods that comfort us. Creamy foods such as ice cream and pudding symbolize the desire for affection.
So it is possible to make psychological analysis on the foods we are fond of…
There are certainly rewards for our fondness for certain foods. Every time you are unhappy, we cannot say to you “You have an addiction to food” just because you crave that food. However, when you observe yourself, we can say that if you tend to overeat in some periods, if there is an extreme state of relaxation and happiness every time you eat. For example, there are foods that change according to my mood, which we call “mood food”. Foods that remind us of our childhood or remind us of a memory that gave us happiness at a time. A cake our mother made is like warm milk. However, there are also foods such as the smell of newly baked bread, rice and pasta that seduce us. These are just a few of the foods craved by people who are stressed, nervous, or scared. There are feelings of fear and tension, especially under the desire to eat starch. Another is pain. Those who consume a lot of pain are often successful people and take big risks and love the physical exhilaration of adrenaline. The desire for excitement and adrenaline in your private life creates a desire to eat spicier. If you can’t get the excitement, you want and get angry, more spicy, crunchy foods will relax you.
