Can’t stop thinking about pizza and ice cream all day long or is it chocolate and red velvet cheesecake" Whatever it is, a lot of people who sincerely want to lose weight complain that they cannot stop thinking about food. Daily stressors, boredom are just some factors that can make you turn towards food to find temporary comfort and cope with the stress. However, the continuous preoccupation with unhealthy food can throw you off your weight loss diet and lead to overeating and weight gain. Intrusive thoughts about food can make it extremely difficult for you to concentrate on any other activity and it’s not entirely about will power to fight off these cravings. On a weight loss diet, you need to be in calorie deficit, but if food is always on your mind, let’s find out ways to stop thinking about food so much, and instead you gain control over cravings and respect the body’s natural cues for hunger, instead of mindless eating, which is not a good thing either for weight loss or for overall health.
Always Thinking About Food – What’s Happening"
1. You are falling into Emotional Eating: Stress eating or emotional eating is a situation where one eats to feel good and pleasant, to cope up with trauma, to relieve stress, rather than to satisfy hunger. The food that emotional eaters choose are usually high-fat, high sugar, calorie-rich food full of transfat and other toxic ingredients, extremely unhealthy for the human body. When som...