A lot of women obsessively eat when they are depressed. But there are also those who stop eating altogether when they are facing heavy problems. Both are a distress to your health, and it would not help your diet either way. A lot of people face their problems by binging into their “comfort food,” without realizing that this same “comfort food” actually makes them gain more pounds than necessary. This is called emotional eating.

If you eat for emotional reasons, you might be bringing more calories into your body than in ordinary situations.

Here are three tips to help you get rid of that emotional eating disorder:

Step One: Find the Root – Find out the reason why you eat the way you do, and get rid of it.

Step Two: Why Do You Eat? – If you eat to cope with your bad feelings then, try also to divert those feelings into something that would help you be healthier rather than adding more reasons for you to feel bad about your weight.

Step Three: If You Can See It, You Can Stop It – Face your fears. Instead of hiding behind the comforts of food, try to see what it does to you when you go into emotional eating. The more you open about challenging your own self to stop it, the more you will be able to channel enough energy for you to combat that feeling of overeating.

Remember that being unhealthy would also be bad for your self-esteem, and so in the interest of preventing further damage to your health and ego, try to maintain a balance diet; one that is enough to provide you with the energy you need to get going through the day.