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Identify Your Eating Triggers

Guest post by: Terri Levine

Article Overview: We sabotage our healthy eating plans and diet goals when we snack and nibble at all times and on the wrong foods. Identifying what triggers us to want to eat at the wrong time helps us avoid falling into this trap.

Identify Your Eating Triggers



EATING TRIGGERS We eat because we are triggered to eat. The triggers are either purely physical/sustenance (true hunger) and/or emotional. So, there are 2 hungers we deal with - one healthy, one not so.

Learn to identify and notice sooner what triggers you to eat so that you can make the underlying changes necessary to reduce them rather than trying to control your eating habits AFTER you've been triggered (what a waste of willpower!)

This is an intelligent approach because it makes you smarter about yourself, your environment and your life and helps you keep your weight in check in a safer manner.

Don't think you eat for the wrong reasons? Check the list below. If any of these trigger you to want to eat, you need to rethink your eating habits:

Eating Triggers: Stressful situations

Relationship stresses

Inadequate boundaries

Money problems

Boredom

Caffeine

Over-promising/performance anxiety

Low standards

Waiting to eat until you are really hungry

Because "I deserve it."

Tiredness Disappointment The smell of food being cooked Alcohol Television watching

Sugar

Soda pop

Certain drugs

Family/social "dinners"/food-oriented situations

Adrenaline

Cultural expectations

Going out to eat

When you're not telling the truth

Simply out of habit

When you are with certain people

Loneliness

Traditional holiday events

Seeing food

Nothing better to do in the evenings

Certain times of day but not regular meal times

Walking in the kitchen

Unhappiness in a relationship

Grocery shopping

Eating fat creates a desire for more fat

Avoid fad diets and learn to eat sensibly. Eating smaller meals/snacks more regularly throughout the day (6 times per day) rather than 3 large meals and the wrong type of snacks in between, is better for you because it keeps your metabolism firing, you feel full and don't need to eat rubbish, and you will lose weight naturally.

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