Your food choices or eating habits will be, and should be, emotional. Because you’re human.
Emotional eating includes joy, peace, and love.
Consciously choosing to eat certain foods because they bring you joy, or deciding to eat something to feel a specific way, is also emotional eating.
Be wary of the definitions curated by diet culture and consider this a friendly reminder that no matter what, or how you eat, your feelings are valid.
And instead of worrying about emotional eating during the holiday season, try embracing it.
As humans, we celebrate and connect through food traditions. Sugar cookies, gingerbread houses, fruit cake, etc. It‘s all symbolic. The trick is identifying what it means to you without making it mean something about you.
