2023-10-17 16:45:27
Our emotions have an impact on our mental health and our physical health… to the point of sometimes making us gain weight. We explain everything about emotional weight.
What are emotional pounds?
“Negative emotions, when they are too frequent, too intense, and insufficiently compensated by positive emotions, cause emotional weight”explains Doctor Stéphane Clerget1. Thus, the emotional weightit’s the one we take because ofnegative emotionsstress… More concretely, a negative emotion will push us to eat more – or poorly – and, in fact, cause a weight gain.
When food becomes a refuge…
To put it simply, we will tend to gain emotional weight when we consider food as a refuge from our problems. We eat when we are stressed. We eat when we are sad. We eat when we are worried. We eat when we are tired. We eat when we are upset, angry, when we need comfort, etc. In short, eating becomes a sort of protective and reassuring reflex, which will allow us to run away from our problems. And this is where we will tend to see the emotional pounds settle in …
Moreover, several studies have established a link between emotions and weight gain. So, in some cases, food can provide self-soothing helping to counterbalance a complex family pattern or a lack of self-confidence2.
Pour lose emotional weight you must first be aware of the fact that we tend to eat in response to our emotions. Afterwards ? We’ll have to learn to manage your emotions and, in particular, those which are at the origin of food intake…
Pour lose emotional weightwe can :
What if we can’t lose those extra pounds? Most often, consulting a nutritionist or dietitian will be of no use because the problem is not necessarily in the relationship with food but in the management of emotions. Better this way contact a psychologist so that it identifies why food is considered a refuge.
1.“Emotional kilos: how to get rid of them”Stéphane Clerget (Albin Michel).
2. Early maladaptive schemas in overweight and obesity: A schema mode model, Barbara Basile, Katia Tenore, Francesco Mancini.
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