AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE ON UNCONTROLLABLE COMPULSION TO EAT

You might be tempted to believe that self-control is the only answer to a compulsive relationship with food. However, most compulsions have a story to tell. Listening to them is usually a more effective means to unravel their power and help you regain power. Try to understand what your compulsions are trying to communicate to you. Even if your compulsions seem pathological, they may be rooted in some legimate needs that needs to be discovered, and responded to.

There are several reasons one may feel an uncontrollable impulse to eat. Perhaps you have an overactive or hyperthyroid gland that is burning up your food immediately and leaving you with a ravenous, seemingly uncontrollable sensation of hunger. Another possibility is that you are simply not eating enough, or have irregular eating habits that confuse the body and lead to abnormal hunger cues. You might also be compelled to eat for emotional reasons, possibly using food as a distraction or mechanism of avoidance. Either way, compulsions can tell you about your mental and physical state.

A likely cause underlying a strong appetite for food is deprivation. When you restrict yourself and try to assert your will, your body is likely to rage back at you full-force. Many times, people who struggle with food will set rules for themselves (no sugar today, no food before noon, etc.) and then find themselves feeling frenzied and out of control later once they are around food. The more you try to restrict yourself, the more you find yourself pre-occupied with eating the very same thing. Harsh diets, restrictions, and rules confuse your body more than anything. When the body rebels, you'll feel the pain of self-defeat, and that scary feeling that you're out-of-control around food.

Ease up on your rules, maintain a regular eating schedule, and let your body self-regulate. Whenever you eat, pay attention. Remember how to the food makes you feel, so you can train your tongue.

When you feel an overwhelmingly strong compulsion to eat, take a moment to reflect. What does the compulsion feel like, emotionally and also physically? Where do you feel the tension and intensity in your body? Indulge slowly as well - fully tasting and experiencing the food. Eat slowly so your body has time to tell you how much it really wants. Trust your body to self-correct these compulsions when you bring mindfulness to your meals. Realizing and leaning into the discomfort, instead of trying to control it, may be your ticket to freedom.

Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Uncontrollable compulsion to eat'. Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution. Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine. Please check with your medical doctor before making any changes to your health & wellness routine, and for the proper use of these products.

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DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body. The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care. Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.

Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas). Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body. Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism. Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism. For 'Uncontrollable compulsion to eat', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics. Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.

Digestion:

Appetite Suppressant

APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT

Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.

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Mind, Stress & Sleep:

Nervine

NERVINE

Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.

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Sedative

SEDATIVE

Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

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UNCONTROLLABLE COMPULSION TO EAT IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0 - POTENTIAL CAUSE

Potential causes increase and disturb your imbalanced doshas and biocharacteristics, causing them to accumulate and spiral out of control. For example, if you're overheated and eat a chili pepper, heat may become excessive and cause disease. As a dosha or biocharacteristic accumulates in your body according to your dietary and lifestyle habits, it is more and more likely to cause disease. You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or biocharacteristic in two ways, by removing, or lessening the frequency of aggravating causes from your diet and lifestyle, as well as by favoring balancing diet and lifestyle practices. For example, try eating something as cool as a cucumber when you're overheated, instead of a chili pepper. (See all disease stages on JB)

GET MY FREE AYURVEDA BODY MAP 'Uncontrollable compulsion to eat' is likely to aggravate the following doshas and biocharacteristics. If you have a systemic imbalance of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics, Ayurveda would generally recommend removing, substitute or lessen the frequency of 'Uncontrollable compulsion to eat'.

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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Uncontrollable compulsion to eat'. See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them. On average the biocharacteristics of people reporting Uncontrollable compulsion to eat were more aggravated than 73% of other symptoms. From the 4,198 people who reported Uncontrollable compulsion to eat average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:

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