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STRESS EATING

By: Alice Hen

I need more space for the guests to If any of this seems even remotely familiar
sleep...Chaya Rochel already finished to you, you are dealing with stress eating.
cleaning and is already stocking Stress eating doesn’t come from hunger. It
comes from emotional discomfort, and is
her freezer...last year’s Pesachdik
apple kugel tasted weird, I need to soothed with food. Stress eating is actually
a very effective way of reducing emotional
find a new recipe...the boy’s need anxiety in the short term, because foods
haircuts...I need to find an outfit for like chips and chocolate actually release
the baby to match the girls...wow serotonin - a brain chemical that allows
look at the price of matza this year... you to feel pleasure. Unfortunately, the
look at the price of everything - how effects of this process aren’t very long
do people do it?....my girls really lasting, as the extra calories alway bring
along more stress and anxiety.
don’t help enough...I’m so tired and
I can’t afford to get sick...did I really
So why do we do it? We all know that the
just eat half that bag of chips? Where
short term stress relief is not worth the
did the rest of those chocolates go - I long term regret and misery that comes
ate them?! I MUST lose ten pounds from gaining weight, especially when we
before Pesach! Why did I let myself want to be losing weight! Yet over and
eat that?! I need to go shopping for over again we find ourselves eating foods
Pesach clothes but I really want to that we later regret.
lose weight first....

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