The OVERRATED antidepressant.

The reason why you shouldn’t uplift your mood by munching on your favorite comfort food is that it only provides you the momentary satisfaction and might even uplift your mood for a very brief period of time, but when that satisfaction subsides (up till then you’ve stuffed yourself with a lot of food ) you will only feel worse. Now what is comfort food? If you may ask, it is the food with dense calories; high in both carbohydrates and fats, either too salty or too sugary (you know the foods).

Now these foods might trigger your brain into activating the reward system in turn making you ‘feel’ relaxed and virtually happy. Some people also do it because either consciously or unconsciously they like the instant gratification which these foods provide even though that gratification wouldn’t last long (it might if you eat pizzas all day all night but then you would die).

What exacerbates this issue is your emotional status, people tend to indulge in binge eating their favorite comfort foods when they are somewhat depressed or feeling low, but that emotional status only gets worsened by this. And this kind of emotional eating can very easily change you into a person who has lost his vision of physical goals and is also lacking the feeling of self-worth.

What should you do instead is involve yourself in some physical activity and you’d see that the flow of negative emotions would go dry and you’d feel a greater amount of satisfaction not to mention you’ll be getting a great physique in the process too.

Exercise can have a great deal of impact on your mood (positive impact), I mean just thinking about a good workout brings a smile on your face then think of the wonders it’d do if you actually dragged your ass to the gym or the race track and did one. You’ll see an instant boost in confidence along with the feeling of accomplishment be it a very small one but it’d last unlike the binge satisfaction. It would also make you incharge of your life and you would no longer be dominated by the cravings of momentary satisfaction that you used to have.

This doesn’t mean that you cannot treat yourself, of course you can but when you do something of significance, when you stick to that workout, diet etc. regime. Then you have a right to have a cheat day/ meal but not every meal has to be a cheat meal (coz then the only one being cheated would be you).