7 Secrets to Stop Compulsive Eating

Working from home can be challenging for a number of reasons and one of them is our relationship with food. Emotional eating is one of the main challenges we face as human beings, especially in excessive societies where our emotions are not directly dealt with, so we often seek comfort in food to fulfil the emotional void.

Being a compulsive eater myself for so many years, I know how difficult it is to manage a lot of things at the same time without indulging into food. Stuffing myself used to be a mechanism of escaping my true feelings. I don’t know what is it about food, but somehow eating seems to be a “fake” relief for the energy of emotions or, better yet, for not handling the energy of emotions. The more time I’d spent at home, the more odds I’d have to fall into it. It took me a while to understand how this pattern unfolded and to track it back to early childhood. Since feeding is one of our basic activities and it’s so intimately connect with the brain — as books like Change Your Brain Change Your Body by Dr. Daniel G. Amen or Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ by Dr. Giulia Enders point out — it is no wonder that this connection remains and we act as if we were a hypnotised puppet when it comes to this particular subject.

Now, more than ever, emotions get demanding and in quarantine it just gets harder to resist the urge to…