subject: Emotional Hunger vs. The Real Hunger [print this page] Emotional Hunger vsEmotional Hunger vs. The Real Hunger
It is widely known that eating takes place when physical hunger appears, but the emotional feelings triggered by external stimuli, such as perfumes, can also cause hunger. This is called emotional eating and represents 75% of all eating. Next you will find out how you can distinguish real hunger from other types, like head hunger or heart hunger.
First of all, you can compare the hunger types by the preferences you have when you feel the desire to eat. The real physical hunger is characterized by the lack of preferences in terms of what you want to eat. More, you feel energized after eating and you do not feel the guilt for doing so.
Unlike the real hunger that is slowly coming, head hunger comes very quickly and is the feeling that you need to eat quickly and you must eat something special, something sweet, salt or fat. This type of hunger is caused by frustration, stress or anger.
The sad matters of the heart- loneliness, depression or even boredom, are asking to be solved through heart hunger, when you crave for foods will make you happier - mashed potatoes, cake, pasta, products which were associated with pleasant situations or are commonly known as bringing happiness: candy, ice cream or even alcohol.
If you are a weight loss surgery patient or not, you need to recognize and differentiate these types of hunger and eliminate the emotional ones, so that eating more than you are supposed to will never happen again after weight loss surgery, either you had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding surgery -or the gastric-banding surgery-, or a gastric sleeve surgery.
