Our body is programmed to build up fat reserves in winter. Follow these simple tips and you can very well dodge the season's comfort food trap naturally.
Eat regularly:
Aim for three small meals and two or three healthy snacks a day. If you skip meals, your blood sugar levels dip, leaving you more vulnerable to comfort eating. Go for lower GI carbohydrates which are digested more slowly and help smoothen out blood sugar fluctuations.
Identify your feelings:
Before you reach for the biscuits or a chocolate bar, ask yourself if you're really hungry. If the answer is no, ask yourself what you're really feeling. If you are angry acknowledge it. If you are lonely phone a friend. In other words, find other ways of dealing with negative emotions.
A food and mood diary:
Writing down everything you eat and drink, and any thoughts or moods linked to that eating, helps you become more aware of your comfort eating habits and how to control them. When we are having a habit of keeping a diary for all our duties, why not for this prime duty.
Change comfort foods:
If you usually go for chocolate, choose a low calorie hot chocolate drink instead. If you love chips, go for oven chips not chip shop variety, especially oil bathed chips. There's usually a lower calorie version that will do instead for everything. Keep healthy snacks around you.
Be Alcohol aware:
Alcohol always makes you hungry and it's a very bad idea to have it on an empty stomach,. because it will loosen your inhibitions so you can't exercise as much dietary restraint, try to consume alcohol only with food, to avoid rapid rise in alcohol levels. By the way if restrict alcohol you also save your liver.
Stay calm if you blow up:
One binge eating lapse isn't a problem, but your reaction to it could be rather than feeling you have failed and give up, look at what you can learn from a bad day or week and do things differently. Then forgive, talk positively to yourself about what you have achieved already, and get back on track.
Eat regularly:
Aim for three small meals and two or three healthy snacks a day. If you skip meals, your blood sugar levels dip, leaving you more vulnerable to comfort eating. Go for lower GI carbohydrates which are digested more slowly and help smoothen out blood sugar fluctuations.
Identify your feelings:
Before you reach for the biscuits or a chocolate bar, ask yourself if you're really hungry. If the answer is no, ask yourself what you're really feeling. If you are angry acknowledge it. If you are lonely phone a friend. In other words, find other ways of dealing with negative emotions.
A food and mood diary:
Writing down everything you eat and drink, and any thoughts or moods linked to that eating, helps you become more aware of your comfort eating habits and how to control them. When we are having a habit of keeping a diary for all our duties, why not for this prime duty.
Change comfort foods:
If you usually go for chocolate, choose a low calorie hot chocolate drink instead. If you love chips, go for oven chips not chip shop variety, especially oil bathed chips. There's usually a lower calorie version that will do instead for everything. Keep healthy snacks around you.
Be Alcohol aware:
Alcohol always makes you hungry and it's a very bad idea to have it on an empty stomach,. because it will loosen your inhibitions so you can't exercise as much dietary restraint, try to consume alcohol only with food, to avoid rapid rise in alcohol levels. By the way if restrict alcohol you also save your liver.
Stay calm if you blow up:
One binge eating lapse isn't a problem, but your reaction to it could be rather than feeling you have failed and give up, look at what you can learn from a bad day or week and do things differently. Then forgive, talk positively to yourself about what you have achieved already, and get back on track.
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