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Different types of stress can cause you to crave different kinds of foods. Talk to yourself and find out
what emotions you are dealing with and notice which type of foods each emotion cause you to crave.
Once you can recognize that the stress is causing you to crave the food, and not hunger, you may be able
to avoid eating as a stress reaction.
Or, at least, you may be able to find a healthy food to satisfy the craving.
You may have discovered that if you choose to be overwhelmed with stress,
reaching for sugary sweets is just like reaching for a drink or other drugs.
People reach for the carbs to get a sugar high and escape that emotion for the moment.
This never works (as we all know) because after you have started to come down from the initial rush,
you are left feeling a little sick and sometimes depressed and guilty.
Changing your eating habits is not a test to see how powerful you can become over junk.
It is just a choice to eat foods that will nourish your body,
feed your cells and help the body rid itself of toxins.
The more often you eat foods that do this, the healthier you will be.
Try to find healthy alternatives to food for coping with the challenges of life.
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