One of the main causes for Overeating is Emotional feeling towards food & most of the times its not the hunger. Its generally triggered by other deadly emotional feelings such as Anger, Depression, Loneliness, Stress, Anxiety, Boredom & lack of control. The other causes would be attending the great parties such as Wedding, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Saturday-night-potlucks or any other b'day parties where a wide range of mouth-watering food variety is at display. Hardly able to resist our temptation. Sometimes its caused by following unstructured aggressive diets which makes people to starve continuously for few days at stretch and in the end feels very delighted to just binge on anything thats available as a result of uncontrollable hunger strike. Whatever the reason be, this disease is life-threatening by leading to obesity & also give rise to other chronic illnesses on a very long run due to the intake of low quality food in large quantities such as multiple scoop of ice creams, fried food & other kind of unhealthy fast food.
Knowing the causes is not a great deal, here is the toughest part - how to avoid or remove this deadly devil from our daily life. Here are my few simple tips to follow:-
1. Never miss your breakfast even if it is merely a boiled egg, it works.
2. Drink Drink Drink plenty of water or even you might substitute few cups with other fresh fruit juices or butter milk. Be hell-bent on drinking lots of water.
3. Do regularly atleast 15 mins of Pranayama(yoga) or Art of Living - Breathing Exercise, generally recommended in early mornings. This actually gives lots of self control.
4. Take long time to complete your meal by chewing slowly with purpose & enjoy the ambiance & companionship. This gives an illusion that you are eating more.
5. Always eat in smaller plates so that you could manage to have multiple & healthy mini meals throughout the day rather than a few large ones.
6. Substitute your high carb food with fresh & healthy Salads, vegetables & fruits.
7. Walk Walk Walk every night so that it keeps you stay fit. If time permits, I recommend to go either to gym or do a minimum of 30 mins jogging.
8. Finally have a firm will power not to indulge in overeating by getting the mind of food & instead trying to elevate the mood into some other activities like reading a book or writing a blog, etc
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