What is stress eating?!


Question: What is stress eating?
Is it the same thing as emotional eating? I think it is when you are under stress you eat but im not sure.

Answers:

Here's what I've been told. Over-eating will fill the stomach, which sits on the large intestine, moving more blood up to the brain, causing a sense of relaxation, which is much better than feeling distressed.

I don't know if it's true or not. There is a reason that some heavy caloried foods are called "comfort foods", I suppose. They sit in your stomach like a rock.



I agree that food has a chemical reaction in your body when you consume it. A lot of women run for chocolate when they are stressed, because it supposedly has a better reaction than sex. The activity in the brain increases. I eat junk when I'm stressed out. My diet gets ruined and then makes me even more depressed. It's a vicious cycle.



it means that you eat a lot when you are depressed. you don't know when to stop




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