Mind Over Food- Let’s Understand the Psychology of Eating

Do you often feel eating everything when you stressed and depressed? 

Yes, your mental state can indeed affect your food choices. So, whenever you make your mind to eat healthily and not be able to stick to it even trying hard, blame your mind! 

Food is the fuel that keeps us alive and active. Not only this, it helps in performing various functions in the body like breathing, digestion and maintaining heart rate. Proper diet and nutrition help in decreasing the risk of various diseases while giving you the energy to perform daily activities. But, ask yourself that can you control your food choices and stick to healthy eating even after knowing that it can harm our health like no other. 

Here is some nitty-gritty of food sensibility that you can add and adapt to get the most out of nutrients from your food. 

Be Attentive When You Eat: Scrolling and eating are one of our favourite tasks. But do you know what it can do to your health? Such distracted consumption of food not only encourages you to eat extra, but it also takes you closer to various diseases like heart attacks, strokes, high cholesterol levels and diabetes. It can do more than that by summing up to your weight and you won’t even realize it. 

Don’t Eat Out of Monotony: Boredom is one of the significant factors that can lead us to consume more. This type of eating will disrupt the monotony and even make you feel well but over consumption can fill you up with uninvited calories which further create problems like weight gain, high cholesterol, and heart attacks. To escape such eating you should add your favourite hobbies in your lifestyle or you can also go out for some walking and running.

Don’t Boundary your Food Choices: A lot of us believe that giving up on our favourite foods can help us in slimming down. Sometimes this can work but it can also make people to overindulgence in food. The very basic reason for this is the common attribute of human psychology- the more you divert yourself from something, the more you feel attracted towards it. So, indulge in mindful eating instead of cutting down those foods from your diet. You can also make your favourite food healthy by swapping some of the ingredients from it. Also, learn the art of portion control!

Do not Make Way for Emotional Eating: Many of us feel “eating everything” when we suffer from some emotional cringe. Emotional eating packed up calories in your body and can badly affect your health. In fact, it only takes you away from your problems for a shorter period of time. Instead of consuming negative food, be sensible and incorporate exercises and meditation in your lifestyle to pass out your negative emotions and feelings. 

Footnote 

Try to eat mindfully and do not let the emotional eating interrupt your health. Add above mentioned simple yet astonishing food psychology ways in your lifestyle to get great benefits and proper nutrients.