How Does Stress Eating Impacting Your Life And Weight?

Do you aware about this kind of psychological problem?

1. Have you ever experienced that all you wanna do is eating without considering anything?

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2. Or you enjoy rewarding yourself with food even though you are an obesity monster ??

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* Oh man, keeping away from that cake!

3. Maybe you just enjoy the feeling that food inside your body!

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I just want them all!

4. ATTENTION PLEASE!

If you got similar experience or feeling as these pictures shown, it is time to notice the name of "STRESS EATING" which is a psychology problem nowadays.

5. What is it?

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Stress eating is a way to relieve high stress or deal with negative emotions such as loneliness, sadness, or emptiness rather than just to satisfy physical hunger. People have experience in stress eating will get instant emotional pleasure for a short-term without control of eating.

6. Quick Test

If you are not sure about whether or not bothered by stress eating, taking a quick test here to see how possible you might be a stress eating person.

If more than half of the answers are yes, you should consider whether you get trouble with the situation.

1. You eat more when you’re feeling stressed.

2. You eat both when you’re not hungry and when you’re full.

3. You will feel better (to calm and soothe yourself when you’re sad, mad, bored, anxious, etc.) after eating.

4. You enjoy rewarding yourself with food.

5. You feel powerless or out of control around food.

6. You are aware of that you are not starving but still can’t stop eating.

7. You always have desirability to eat whenever under positive or negative emotions.

8. Keep searching for food to eat but usually can’t find food satisfied yourself.

9. You feel safe when you having food.

10. Regarding eating as a way of relaxing.

11. When you feel anxiety or after a stressing period, you will eat fast than normal.

12. You can feel your feeling or emotion while eating such as “I’m eating the sugar because I’m under high pressure at the moment.”

13. Even though it is enough of your physical nutrition, but still feel an emptiness for the most time.

14. You like to find a certain type of food such as chocolate to eat when dropping into negative emotion because you will feel better after eating it.

15. You prefer to preparing something for storage in order to eat them instantly when you “need” it (under high pressure or feeling empty).

16. When you eat something in order to comfort yourself and not to satisfy the physical hunger, eating will cause guilt.

7. The serious problem is that you can never take control of yourself with it!

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8. Share with us about your experience in stress eating and how this affects your life. It is time to be aware of the problem and living a healthy life!