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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Healthy Foods To Eat When You Need an Emotional Pick Me Up
A stressful day could send anyone on the hunt for chocolate, but if you regularly reach for ice cream, cookies, or cake when you're upset or tense, it may have nothing to do with a lack of willpower.
For you, carbohydrates may stimulate an especially powerful release of pleasure-producing hormones in your body. Like a nicotine addiction, such a compulsion is tough to break, but it is not impossible. Surprisingly, food can help you do it.
Sweet but nutritious complex carbohydrates such as the foods listed below have the same calming effect.However, they're less harmful to your waistline, because they have fewer calories than the candy bars or other calorie-rich foods you might normally seek.
You'll also be less likely to overeat throughout the rest of the day if you treat your choice like a meal instead of a mindless snack. Find a place away from your office or away from whoever is upsetting you. Then sit down, and slowly enjoy your food.
Here are just some of the foods you can eat when you have had an emotional day but you don't want to ruin your diet:
Tomato soup Oatmeal Whole wheat toast with jam Multigrain waffle with light syrup Fresh fruit Sweet potato, or baked potato with light sour cream and chives Lightly sweetened whole grain cereals such as Multi-Grain Cheerios
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