Our Emotions and Diet Control
Eating is a basis emotional and physical act, A response to stress and a blocking out of thoughts and especially the disturbing and unpleasant ones and a means to dispel anxiety and nervousness.
It is company in eating food for those who are alone as it rewards and cheers them, allays their anger, lifts their spirits and accentuates their joy. Apart from these reasons for eating there are the more chronic, emotional motivations. The following is one of the moods that affect our eating and our appetite.
Fatigue-Instead of regarding fatigue as a condition needing rest or exercise, some consider it as a reason for eating. In their view eating is a pick me up. Digested food does contribute glucose to the blood, and this sugar is the body’s prime source of energy. But this digestive process takes two to three hours so your energy cannot return as soon as you have had your first bite of food.
One has to deal with fatigue directly and not through food. A brisk walk can wipe away fatigue better than a nap, simply because most of the fatigue comes from an expenditure of nervous energy. Modern day sedentary habits cause more mental than physical fatigue.
Fatigue erodes your ability to control yourself. In fact it is more dangerous than starvation itself. After a couple of days without food the body shifts its metabolic gears to operate on the energy, that is already stored as fat. When that happens hunger is abated.
This is not the case with fatigue. There are no rest deposits in the body, nor can you store exercise. The imperatives of fatigue must be met. The physical fatigue comes on directly. You know it when your body is exhausted. But the nervous fatigue creeps on you , without you being aware of it, and you lose control and start nibbling.
So plan ahead. The nervous fatigue can appear in a daily pattern. You will notice that there are certain days that you will pig out. At such times stay away from food and go for a walk or take a nap.
Eating is a basis emotional and physical act, A response to stress and a blocking out of thoughts and especially the disturbing and unpleasant ones and a means to dispel anxiety and nervousnessIt is company in eating food for those who are alone as it rewards and cheers them, allays their anger, lifts their spirits and accentuates their joy. Apart from these reasons for eating there are the more chronic, emotional motivations. The following is one of the moods that affect our eating and our appetite.
Fatigue-Instead of regarding fatigue as a condition needing rest or exercise, some consider it as a reason for eating. In their view eating is a pick me up. Digested food does contribute glucose to the blood, and this sugar is the body’s prime source of energy. But this digestive process takes two to three hours so your energy cannot return as soon as you have had your first bite of food. One has to deal with fatigue directly and not through food. A brisk walk can wipe away fatigue better than a nap, simply because most of the fatigue comes from an expenditure of nervous energy.
Modern day sedentary habits cause more mental than physical fatigue.Fatigue erodes your ability to control yourself. In fact it is more dangerous than starvation itself. After a couple of days without food the body shifts its metabolic gears to operate on the energy, that is already stored as fat. When that happens hunger is abated. This is not the case with fatigue.
There are no rest deposits in the body, nor can you store exercise. The imperatives of fatigue must be met. The physical fatigue comes on directly. You know it when your body is exhausted. But the nervous fatigue creeps on you , without you being aware of it, and you lose control and start nibbling. So plan ahead. The nervous fatigue can appear in a daily pattern.
You will notice that there are certain days that you will pig out. At such times stay away from food and go for a walk or take a nap.
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