How psychology helps you to change your eating habits and staying fit!

Avoid Emotional Eating

It is important to understand the reason behind overeating, snacking or choosing unhealthy food. We need to find out what is happening to us emotionally while indulging into such eating habits. Is it boredom,happiness,stress or sadness? It becomes necessary to find out , "are we really hungry?" or we are just responding to our emotions!

Keep A Track

All that we eat, where we eat, when we eat , our thoughts, behavior and feelings about that particular food , everything needs to be recorded. It has been found that, the people who monitor their eating habits and note them down are more successful in loosing weight ,as it helps them to understand their eating behavior and identify the areas to be changed.

Stop Associating Things With Food

Sometimes we associate our experiences, our daily activities or our emotions, with a particular behavior. For example, if you typically eat while watching TV, your brain has made an association between food and TV. You may not be hungry, but in your mind TV and eating are paired together. So when you watch TV you suddenly feel the urge to eat. You can begin to break this association by not eating while watching TV.

Changing Unhealthy Thoughts and Behavior

Negative thoughts and behavior are found commonly among the people who don't experience the results which they expect and see the process of weight loss as a punishment. Psychologists work with people to address

negative feelings and find ways to reward healthy changes to their eating habits. Reinforcing healthy behavior is important to achieve weight management goals.