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The connection between anger and weight

Posted: Dec 19th 2007 6:57PM by Martha Edwards
Filed under: Emotional Health, Diet and Weight Loss

How do you deal with anger? Do you repress it, or do you let it out? Do you struggle with weight loss? These two questions might seem unrelated but that's not the case, according to this article from Glee Magazine, which alleges that how you deal with anger is crucial to your ability to lose weight. More specifically, those who bottle their anger find it more difficult to lose or maintain their weight because they use food as a way of dealing with their uncomfortable emotions.

I think this idea makes a lot of sense, and can be applied to how someone deals with any type of emotion. Many overeaters are emotional eaters, after all, and tend to binge when emotions get overwhelming. Releasing emotions in an healthy manner is important to overcoming any sort of addictive or bingeing behaviour.

What do you think of this hypothesis?

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