CURLING UP ON THE sofa with hot chocolate and bickies sounds like heaven, especially when it’s cold and dark outside, but when comfort eating becomes a habit or a way of managing anxiety, you can find the pounds piling on.
‘We tend to suffer from emotional eating when we feel stressed, bored, anxious or lonely,’ says Saba Stone, qualified nutritionist and coach at SportSession.com (sportsession.com). ‘Unfortunately, it involves eating sweet and fatty food that sabotages weight-management efforts. The soothing effect that comes from emotional eating is temporary and can lead to a sense of guilt and, subsequently, more emotional eating.’
Frustratingly, it’s not just negative emotions that cause us to reach for the cake tin – feeling happy or excited can also
