STOP EMOTIONAL EATING
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The fact is that many people around the world (especially Americans) are obsessed with weight and spend more than $60 billion a year on diets and dietary products.The media continually calls out to us: We have an epidemic of obesity! About two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Many of the millions of heavy people suffer from an eating disorder which has the highest mortality rate of any diagnosis of mental health, including depression. Binge eating, the most common feeding disorder in the U.S., affects over 25 million people. Recently, a lot of press attention has been given to this diagnosis because the American Psychiatric Association recommends that it be considered a separate, distinct eating disorder, as are bulimia and anorexia.Even though not all obese people are compulsive overeaters, experts believe that about 75 percent of overeating is emotional eating - using food to deal with emotions. Even though everybody turns to food for warmth on occasion, such as hot soup or hot chocolate on a cold winter night, or something nice to snack on after a battle with your husband, the compulsive overeater turns to food as the primary means of coping with daily tension, anxiety and other unpleasant feelings. We are in a hunger for emotion.Some of us feed from an inner void, resulting in some of us becoming addicted to sugar and refined carbohydrates. Compulsive eating starts as an attempt to alleviate emotional pain, but it ends up making us feel even worse.I have consulted with compulsive overeaters and binge eaters for more than 20 years as a licensed professional clinical counselor. I am also a (recovered) sugar junkie and have spent many years quenching emotions by shooting down my throat ice cream or cookies. Food was the glue which held me together.Some overweight people just eat a little too much. Nevertheless, emotional eaters like me use food as a fix: I manipulated food just like an addict us
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