{"id":5395,"date":"2016-05-20T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2016-05-13T11:52:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:52:37","slug":"eating-when-not-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/healthyhorizons\/uncategorized\/eating-when-not-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating When Not Hungry?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Binge Eating<\/h3>\n

Does this sound like you \u2014 able to control your\u00a0portions sometimes but losing control and uncontrollably eating large amounts of food at other times? This is called “binge eating” and lots of people do it.A binge is when you eat a lot of food in a short time and it’s usually not healthy food. Binge eating is bad for you, especially if you have diabetes.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Emotional Eating<\/h3>\n

Many people eat when they are feeling upset, angry, stressed, sad, lonely or fearful. Emotions such as these can be powerful triggers to eat.If you’re an emotional eater, you can learn other ways to react to your emotions. Emotions usually don’t last long \u2014 often just 10 minutes to an hour \u2014 so you only need to distract yourself from eating for a short time, until the emotion passes, like going for a 10-minutes walk around the block.<\/p>\n

Nighttime Eating<\/h3>\n

For many people, dinner is only the start of their nighttime eating. There’s nothing wrong with a healthy snack such as fruit, plain popcorn or whole-wheat toast with a little jam a couple of hours after dinner. However, nighttime eating is a problem when you eat large amounts of food or foods high in saturated fat, sodium and calories like cookies, chips, full-fat ice cream, sandwiches or leftovers.If nighttime eating is a problem for you, try to eat most of your calories during daylight hours. Reach for a light, healthy snack<\/a> <\/span>in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Instead of<\/strong><\/td>\nTry<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cookies<\/td>\n1 piece whole-wheat toast with jam<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Candy<\/td>\n1 piece fresh fruit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chips<\/td>\n2 cups low-fat. lower-salt popcorn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cheese and crackers<\/td>\n\u00bd to 1 cup fat-free or 1% cottage cheese<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pizza<\/td>\n\u00bd to 1 cup of veggies, raw or leftover from dinner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ice cream<\/td>\n\u00bd to 1 cup low-fat yogurt (flavored or plain)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

To help control binge, emotional and nighttime eating:<\/strong><\/p>\n