Substitute to Emotional Eating

Okay, you are sad and devastated.  You want to be happy so, you want to grab chocolate bars or  you want to munch a bag of chips in one sitting.  Every bite is bliss. You forget the blues as you masticate the so-called comfort food.     That is happiness in the short term.   After you consume it, you go back to being lonely.  The eating gives rise to weight gain, insecurities and aggravated sadness.  Malungkot na nga, mataba pa!  How excruciating is that?

To prevent yourself from emotional eating,  you may want to try any of the following:

1.        Go to water spa.   Loosen up and swim away  your pain and sadness.   

2.       Get a body scrub and a relaxing  massage. 

3.       Visit a  salon.  Have a new hair cut or have your hair treated.  Have your nails done.  You need to feel good about yourself.  You need to feel beautiful.  You need to love yourself more.

4.       If you have moolah, shop.  Get yourself a new top or a red lipstick.  (Unlike other women,  I don’t find happiness in window shopping, it makes me feel disappointed.) 

5.       Do the laundry or scrub the floor.  Be productive.  You don’t need to think.  You just need to make yourself busy.

6.       Go to the gym.  Sweat out your angst.

7.       Relax and watch a movie.  Have your mind preoccupied.   Watch "feel good" movies.    

8.       Pray.

There is sunshine always after the rain.  In the meantime, do not punish yourself.  Life is short to be stuck in the dungeon of bitterness. We may falter but we are capable to be on our feet again!

Thanks for reading guys!  Stay tuned for my Project Fit and Toned post.