How To Stop Emotional eating

Don’t feel bad – we’ve all been there. It was a rough day at the office, or you had an argument with your boyfriend – and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s was there to be your friend and make you feel better. Or maybe you overeat regularly, because food fills an emptiness that you feel in your life.

Nearly everyone is an emotional eater at some point in their life, whether it’s just a candy bar when they’re bored or a little chocolate when PMS has your hormones out of whack.

The problem comes when emotional eating becomes more than occasional, and develops into a full-blown habit. It’s one of the biggest causes of weight gain, and one of the hardest things to control when we’re trying to lose weight. But we’ve got 5 tips for helping you overcome your emotional eating habits:

1. Chew Gum

It might It might seem too simple to be true, but many times just the act of chewing is enough to chase away that urge to grab a box of cookies.

Make sure to have plenty of sugar-free gum at your home and office, and anytime you start getting a craving, pop a piece in your mouth and chew!
 
 
2. Keep A Journal

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Keeping a food journal can make a big difference by helping you recognize what is triggering your emotional eating. Each time you eat, write 

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 in your journal whether or not you actually felt hungry, and how you were feeling emotionally.

You’ll soon start to see if your binges are around the same time each day, which will give you insight into why you’re eating at that moment. Something as simple as changing your schedule can help change the emotional eating habit.
 

3. Implement A Daily Workout Regimen

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Stop emotional eating in its tracks by introducing daily exercise into your schedule. Not only does it burn calories, but it increases circulation and produces endorphins, which makes you feel good – feeling good makes you less likely to turn to food.

If you start feeling the urge to nosh and realize that’s because of boredom or stress, get up and do a little exercise, even if it’s just taking a walk around your neighborhood. Exercise plus a change of scenery – just what you need to put the brakes on your emotional eating.
 
 4. Create A Replacement Habit

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Instead of running for food to feel good, find another habit that beats your bad feelings. Start a blog, take a dance class, learn to macramé or knit. Select something that keeps your mind and hands busy, and do it every day for a month to start a new habit.
 5. Ask Yourself One Question

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One of the simplest ways to stop emotional eating is to ask yourself this one question every time you start to eat: Am I really hungry?

Many times, we turn to food because we’re sad, stressed or just bored. Before you make that sandwich or open that pack of cookies, stop for a moment, and ask yourself if your body is actually hungry. If it’s not – or you aren’t sure – drink a glass of water and go do something else for 30 minutes.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About Ariana Grande

Pop's New Princess

Nickelodeon star and pop darling Ariana Grande is poised to cap off her monumental year with a Top New Artist win at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. To celebrate her nomination, we dug up a few interesting facts about the 20-year-old talent.

1. She had a supernatural experience

While in Kansas City for a performance, Grande and her band decided to go to Stull Cemetery, which is considered in some circles as one of the seven gates to Hell on Earth. There, she had what she described to Complex as a demonic experience. After feeling "sick" and seeing "signs" of demonic presence, Grande "took a picture and there are three super-distinct faces in the picture — they're faces of textbook demons." Before she deleted the pictures, she heard strange noises and whispers and even saw a black mass in her bedroom at night.

2. She's more Streisand than Cyrus

Unlike her hypersexual pop music peer, Miley Cyrus, Grande favors being a bit more demure. "I like Barbra Streisand, and when was the last time you saw Babs getting, like, turnt up? That's kind of the road that I, as a lady, would like to go down," she told Cosmopolitan. She has openly admitted she's "not comfortable enough to be forwardly sexual."

3. She's "obsessed" with Harry Potter

Actually, Grande is admittedly "a big nerd." Of her hobbies outside of music, the starlet told Complex, "I love Lord of the Rings. I love Harry Potter. I love scary movies. I love dinosaurs, science, aliens, ghosts." She considers herself an old soul, noting that ideal evenings for her involve hanging out in her PJs, singing and watching Harry Potter. Unlike her friends who are partyers, Grande "never really clicked with that."

4. Her nonna taught her how to deal with haters

Like most young celebrities, Grande often has to endure taunts from detractors, particularly on Twitter. "Oh, they're evil as hell!" she laughed in an interview with Cosmopolitan. But she doesn't let it get her down, thanks to some advice she got from her grandmother. "I said, 'Nonna, how do you deal with the jealous ladies at the home where you live?' And she said, 'I don't blame them. I'd be jealous too.'"

5. She's a reformed Italian eater

Coming from a "stereotypical poker-playing, loud, friendly, food-shoving, loving Italian family," Grande consumed more than her fair share of carbs growing up, but not anymore. "When I was a kid, I was raised to believe a bowl of pasta was healthy and good for you," she explained. "Then I was like, 'Wow, I've been killing myself all these years.'" Now, she says, she only eats "salmon, vegetables and fruits — super-healthy."

6. She's got Miley's back

She may not have much in common with Cyrus personally or professionally, but that doesn't mean she agrees with all of the Miley backlash. "Miley looks like she is having the time of her life, and I think anybody who's giving her a hard time is wishing deep down they were having as much fun as she is right now," Grande said. "People are being so cruel. I think that's bullying, and she should do whatever the hell she wants."

7. There's a method to her social media madness

Grande is known as a social media maven, often interacting with her fans through Twitter and Instagram. But the pop star has certain rules when it comes to these outlets. A major don't? "Not too many selfies," she told Glamour. "Space them out — you have to wait a few days in between selfies." She does, however, encourage making your Instagram "look cohesive" and "clean and precise."

8. Her musical inspirations span about six decades

Grande definitely counts some contemporary artists among her musical role models — like India.Arie, Imogen Heap and Frank Ocean — but much of her inspiration also comes from decades past. "My favorite era was the '50s and '60s… the Chiffons, the Shangri-Las," she revealed to The Guardian. "My grandparents played it and I fell in love with it, because it was more about romance and love, and less about getting drunk and going home with someone you don't know."

9. Justin Bieber's manager hooked her up with her ex-boyfriend

Grande is totally open with her fans, so she didn't have any qualms about revealing her relationship with Nathan Sykes of The Wanted via social media. But how did she meet the boy band cutie who, despite being broken up, still holds her in high regard? They met when Sykes was "headhunted" by Scooter Braun — Grande's manager who is, perhaps, most famously the manager responsible for Justin Bieber.

10. Her domesticity was not inherited

Grande, who loves baking and gardening, says she definitely didn't get her homemaker traits from her mother. "My mom is a CEO and owns a company that manufactures communications equipment for the Marines and the Navy, so she's not really the housewife type, if you get what I'm saying. She's the most bada**, independent woman you'll ever meet — not the cookies-in-the-oven type."

from: sheknows.com