The gut is a brain, a center of intelligence, and has much more to tell us about ourselves than when we need food and when we do not. Doesn’t this affect us all? Of course it does and the answers may surprise you. So what will fill this emotional emptiness in the pit of your stomach? What are the instinctual needs that are often confused for the need of food in gut feelings of emptiness and fullness? What is the gut trying to tell us about our needs? These seem like such simple and important questions that we might wonder why more people are not addressing them. Because it is not what will really fill this type of emptiness (emotional), we are not truly satisfied stuffing ourselves with food (even though it is enjoyable at the time) and we keep eating to attempt to fill it, often resulting in unwanted weight gain. When we feel emptiness in our guts, empty and alone, then we often grab comfort food to fill this emptiness. It is very difficult to separate the feeling of emptiness in our guts caused by hunger from the emptiness that causes emotional eating but we need to learn how (and certainly can learn) to do this if we are going to be healthy and truly happy people. I think we all now can agree that there is a direct correlation between eating to fill emotional emptiness and overeating to fill what we think is hunger. Much has been written on emotional eating and dieting.
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