The hungry for anxiety is rather a hunger "psychological" due to situations such as stress, personal worries, work or, sometimes, simple boredom.
The problem of the hunger attacks by anxiety is that, to achieve them, we resort to caloric foods and unhealthy. This practice can be avoided if we learn to control them and to recognize those situations of stress and nervousness and we use adequate mechanisms to calm that psychological need.
Eating is a patch-like solution, at the moment it calms our anxiety but Later we regret it. We must avoid that vicious circle to feel good with ourselves both physically and mentally.
The magazine Time shares 5 tips for avoid eating for anxiety and I also give you other that according to scientific studies also serve:
1 - Distracted : there is a lot of talk about stress and a recent Finnish study reveals that women suffer higher levels than men at work. We have a thousand things in our heads and get to comply with everything is overwhelming.
Before starting to chop or attack the box of chocolates, you have to get distracted: call a friend, send messages (bosses will hate me), make a parenthesis and go out to take the air (well, smokers do, right?).
2 - Write down your moments of weakness : they recommend that you keep an agenda where you write down when anxiety arises and the need to eat because of emotional hunger. Knowing it will make you more aware of the problem and help you control it. It may be at the beginning of the day, only certain days because of some difficult class, etc.
3 - Eating with consciousness : I am of the opinion that everything is learned. Dr. Edward Abramson, professor of psychology at California State University, teaches to become aware of eating habits to avoid them being automatic. It has been proven that the more conscious you are, the greater the willpower.
4 - Exercising : we all know the many benefits of practicing some sport or doing physical exercise for our mind. Once again, they recommend it to relax and calm that anxiety that makes us open the refrigerator without being hungry. Exercise strengthens the executive powers of the brain, controlling oneself and fighting against temptation is easier. Yoga, walking, cycling, swimming.
5 - D ormir well and enough hours. The lack of sleep does not help anything, the mind is more prone to depression, to anguish and our strength of will weakens. Studies on the subject affirm that people with lack of sleep eat in excess.
Other tips:
Reduce sugar: while you eat food More sweet, more need you will have that flavor. Gradually remove sugar from your diet.
Drink water: at least 8 glasses a day. Specialists say that sometimes thirst is mistaken for hunger.
Eat several times: if you skip fattening meals more and then you want to eat more.
Distract the mind: when you feel like eating your favorite candy, concentrate on some activity. If you distract your mind, you are likely to forget that you craved something sweet.
You have breakfast as a queen: when you get up, your body comes from a long fast. Omitting breakfast makes your metabolism slow and you feel great need to eat at the end of the day.
Relax: infusions such as chamomile, green tea and valerian, or disciplines such as yoga, can help reduce Tension, which results in less desire to leave the diet.
Eliminate temptations: When you go to the supermarket, only buy healthy foods. Change sweets, for unsweetened fruits or gelatins.
Be happy: When you feel good, the body produces serotonin, an appetite-related hormone, that is artificially generated when you eat chocolate.
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