Eating Too Fast
We get it, in between the gym, work, kids and your latest healthy diet plans you don’t have much time to sit around and really enjoy your meal. However, you should know that eating too fast will cause some more issues for you down the road. Your brain and your stomach, like the rest of your body, are connected and when you eat too fast for them to properly communicate you won’t notice a change in your appetite. Studies in the journal of Clinical Endocrinolgy & Metabolism showcase this fact and they go one step further by giving some sound advice. If you want to eat your meal and not be hungry twenty minutes later: eat at a moderate pace, finish your meal, and then wait another ten minutes to see if you are truly full or not. This can be a pain if you are out to eat with friends or at a family get together, but it’s better than destroying your diet.
Eating Too Fast
High Stress/Anxiety Levels
You’ve seen the TV shows where characters will get into some pretty stressful situations and then immediately begin eating a tub of ice cream. The TV meme actually showcases a problem in real life: emotional eating. Many people choose to dip into food as a sort of comfort when they are sad, angry, or otherwise just too stressed out. However, studies show that eating while emotional does not actually help you sooth yourself. Instead, all you are doing is triggering a destructive diet cycle. So if you are feeling stressful try to meditate, go for a jog, or talk to a friend instead — we’d suggest any of those options over another bag of chips.
High Stress:Anxiety Levels