Breaking Habit: Smoking Day 8 - Types of Eating Patterns

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I've been smoke-free for 4 days now, and my physical and mental withdrawal symptoms haven't changed at all. My hunger has gotten out of hand. The truth is that I don't want to gain any more weight throughout this journey, therefore it's time for me to start designing a diet plan.

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Types of Eating Patterns

Knowing what kind of eater, you are will help you identify yours eating patterns and analyze and comprehend the times when you eating for purposes besides supplying your body with the nutrients it requires. This also provides you with a direction or guidance for what you should do to achieve your health objectives, maintain a healthy lifestyle, or reduce weight.

4 Categories of Eating

Eating: Fuel

At this point, we know that the food we eat will actually help us out by giving us the nutrients and energy that we need. Similar to the clean eating philosophy, this approach to nutrition emphasizes the consumption of unprocessed, whole foods rather than artificial additives. 90% of the time, fuel consuming should take place.

Eating: For Joy or fun

Foods that are delicious and pleasurable to eat, but may not provide the body with the nutrients it needs, are consumed in this way. The term "junk food" refers to anything that tastes good but provides little in the way of nutritional value. Meals high in sugar, harmful fats, and/or calories such as cakes, pastry, chips, fried foods, candies, and fatty sweets are all examples of junk food. If you stick to a healthy diet 90% of the time, allowing yourself 10% of the time to eat for enjoyment is a great compromise.

If you stick to a healthy diet 90% of the time, allowing yourself 10% of the time to eat for enjoyment is a great compromise.

Eating: Cloud or Fog

It's a case of mindless eating or eating in a state of complete disorientation. It's like your brain is clouded with confusion. Like, for instance, eating when you're not hungry, when you're anxious, or when you're preoccupied. For instance, this might happen while snacking on chips while eating lunch or on popcorn while driving; in both cases, you might not give much thought to how much you're eating, whether or not you're enjoying it, or whether or not it's healthy. Attempting to achieve the impossible and never engaging in fog eating is a worthy objective.

Eating: Compulsive eating or storm eating

When this happens, eating becomes so enjoyable that not even willpower can prevent more consumption. Sometimes this happens when we allow ourselves to grow too hungry, and other occasions it occurs when we experience an overwhelming feeling that we would rather not feel. Most people feel bad about themselves after indulging in a binge eating episode, or "storm eating," since they know what they did was wrong.

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— The Way of the Wise Owl by Dagmarie Daniels