Anxious eating is an emotional state in which people need to be eating most of the time to feel satisfied. However, this kind of behavior can have side effects on health.
Anxious eating affects children, young people, and adults in general. When a meal has a higher caloric value, the body takes longer to process it, which keeps us from feeling full and leads us to eat more.
Placebo Effect
Food has a function, and that's to nourish us; however, the problem arises when we look for food out of distraction, because we're trying to hide what our body wants to express, and anxiety can disguise or hide itself in various ways.
One of the most common problems associated with anxious eating is being overweight, a condition that affects a third of the population and is responsible for millions of deaths per year worldwide (according to World Health Organization figures). Another factor that triggers this behavior is work-related stress and general stress. This keeps us from being conscious of what we put in our mouths, leading us to eat large amounts, especially of unhealthy foods like packaged snacks, fast food, and so on…
Calm Your Anxious Eating With Flower Essences
Flower essences act naturally, helping us redirect emotions and feelings that are out of balance in a healthy way. Let's see how to address anxious eating with nature's gift through flower therapy.
Use flower therapy to help reduce anxious eating, since these essences help you relax and minimize the effects of a hectic life.
Cherry Plum: This flower essence helps you become more aware of your actions; the Cherry Plum essence prevents us from harming ourselves, whether physically or mentally.
When we overeat, a feeling of being less attractive, less energetic, and having low self-esteem can arise, because we know something is wrong and there isn't good nutrition, causing guilt to become our worst companion.
Likewise, for this case of anxious eating, we find the essence Vervain; this flower essence is helpful for following through on what we set out to do, and teaches us that bad habits can be harmful to our health if we aren't aware of them.
By combining the flower essences mentioned here, anxious eating gradually eases, to the point of regaining control over our thoughts or actions. In this way, we become more aware, less impulsive, and the body starts thanking us, improving digestion and taking care of our health.