How To Curb Comfort Eating

Mindful ways to stop snacking your way through your emotions

When we comfort eat, we eat more than we should, tend to eat unhealthily, and don’t properly process the negative emotions that have caused the eating in the first place. Food makes us feel good, at least for a little while. And because this behavior makes us feel better, we tend to do it again and again.

CHANGING HABITS

Repeated behaviors are more likely to become established and self-reinforcing. It takes 66 days for a new habit to form. That can feel like a lifetime when you’re trying to establish more challenging habits, like going for a run.