How Do You Avoid Over Eating (Especially During Holidays)?
Parties abound and the table is filled with food. Appetizers and desserts are calling your name. The holidays are a particularly difficult time to stop eating after the first few bites, especially if you’re stressed out by the demands of the holiday season. Maybe it’s not the holiday season and you’ve just had a bad day. That bowl of ice cream seems real appealing. The temptation to pull out the chips, cookies, candy bars and other comfort food is strong. You know it will make you feel better. Well, at least temporarily. There are real physical and psychological reasons why you want to overeat. Learn what they are and how you can avoid the signals that push you towards compulsive overeating. GET ENOUGH SLEEP. The hormones that control your appetite get out of whack when you haven’t had enough sleep. Get eight hours of sleep every night. Don’t try to make up for a lack of sleep by sleeping in on the weekends. It doesn’t work that way. It only messes up your natural sleeping rhythms whic
