Causes and Effects of Overeating

Causes and Effects of Overeating
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Causes and Effects of Overeating
Overeating is one form of an eating disorder that is prevalent in modern times. Besides hunger, people eat for various reasons. For example, other people tend to eat more when stressed, while others overeat due to exhaustion or sadness. Overeating may also be caused by poor eating habits such as eating while distracted or eating too quickly (Joshua, 2017). The reasons for overeating vary from psychological reasons and, at times, may be related to life events. Through this paper, we seek to examine the causes and effects of overeating.
One of the primary psychological reasons for overeating is emotional eating. Emotional eating refers to eating to suppress or soothe negative emotions. These negative emotions include stress, loneliness, boredom, anger, fear, and many others (Joshua, 2017). In some cases, the most grounded food yearnings hit when one is at one most fragile point emotionally. In this case, one may turn to eat for solace–deliberately or unknowingly–when dealing with a troublesome issue. Others eat to beat away feelings of anxiety or when they feel exhausted.
Significant life occasions or ordinary day-to-day life activities can trigger negative feelings that lead to enthusiastic eating and upset an individual’s weight loss endeavors. These triggers may include relationship conflicts, financial challenges, work-related stress, health problems, or fatigue. Feelings and emotions can be so attached to an individual’s eating pattern that it becomes normal for one to go for a treat whenever irate or pushed without pondering what they are doing (Joshua, 2017). Additionally, eating fills in as a distraction mechanism. In case one is stressed or faces anxiety over an impending occasion or stewing over a contention, one is likely to zero in on eating food as a way of seeking solace as opposed to managing the troublesome circumstanc...