Women Fat Burners

Fat Loss Disasters

Emotional Eating Premenstrual Syndrome Uncontrollable Cravings Disease and Disability Fasting & Low Eating

Emotional Eating

Perhaps the most damaging diet disaster is when emotional eating strikes.  Emotional eating can be devastating to a diet, because it’s very hard to control once it starts.
You’ve heard the term “comfort food”, right?  It’s a term used for foods that make us feel better when we’re depressed, angry, frustrated, or otherwise emotionally down.
These are usually fattening foods like meatloaf, mashed potatoes, lasagna, fried chicken, and other high-fat, high-calorie foods that tend to make us feel comfort during stressful times.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)

Women will undoubtedly understand just how much premenstrual syndrome can affect the appetite.  When the body is preparing for menstruation, it may start to crave certain things. 

Sometimes this can be something that has a legitimate purpose, such as craving red meat or beans, which contain iron that can help replenish the blood that is about to be lost.

Other times, this can be high-carbohydrate, high-fat foods like ice cream, chocolate, cookies, candy, pizza, French fries, potato chips, and other fatty foods.
PMS can also cause depression and other emotional imbalances that can lead to emotional eating.  These are actually quite common with PMS, and there’s not a lot you can do about it.

Whenever PMS strikes, your best bet is to proceed as you would with emotional eating.  Call on your support network as much as possible.  They will be able to help you through it.

Lots of Cravings!

Cravings can happen for a variety of reasons.  Sometimes they can be caused by things like PMS and depression, but other times they may actually have roots in necessity.
Sometimes when you crave certain foods, it can have a physiological purpose.  For example, if you’re craving things like spaghetti, lasagna, and pizza, it may actually be something like tomatoes you’re craving.  Your body might be in need of something contained in tomatoes – a vitamin or perhaps an antioxidant like lycopene. 

Sometimes you can be relatively certain your body isn’t craving anything for a reason.  For example, sugar cookies are pretty much devoid of all nutritional value, so it’s unlikely your body would actually need anything that they contain.

Illness & Health Problems

Whenever you’re sick, it can be harder than normal to stick to a diet.  When you feel weak and sick, dieting is usually the last thing on your mind.  Plus, your body needs extra nutrition to make it stronger.

While illness often makes it so you don’t feel hungry at all, it’s very important to eat to keep up your strength.  You need to feed you immune system with plenty of vitamins and minerals to keep it working well.

But you must eat healthy foods, not junk.  You may be feeling tired and depressed, but it’s important to make sure the food you do eat is the highest quality possible.

Fasting or eating too little

Surprisingly one of the biggest problems dieters face is actually eating too little!  When you eat too little, your body goes into a kind of “starvation mode” in which it slows the metabolism down to conserve precious body fat. 

The body thinks it is starving, and that famine is imminent.  Naturally, its instinct is to preserve body fat in case food has become scarce.  So you have to convince your body there is plenty of food.

That means you have to eat plenty of food, and often.  Skipping meals will leave you hungry and cranky, and you will be more likely to start craving things.  Plus, it will slow your metabolism down immensely.

You must keep your metabolism up at all times, and that means eating often.  That, of course, means eating healthy foods that are low enough in calories that you can eat them in quantity and often.

You should:

• Eat smaller meals of 200-400 calories each.
• Eat every 2-4 hours.
• Eat plenty of low calorie fruits and vegetables.
• Stick to whole grains.
• Don’t eat much sugar.
• Never skip meals.

You should keep a list of “safe foods” with you that you are allowed to have in unlimited quantities.  Either memorize a list of 10-20 foods or carry it with you everywhere you go.  This will help you grab a snack any time you want one without feeling guilty.