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Eating disorders – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

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Eating disorders – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

Feel bad about eating? Here’s how to change that

It seems as if, every time Sam is in the staff room at work, coworkers are talking about their new diets, weight loss, how they’ve been ‘good’ not to succumb to the ‘temptation’ to eat cake today, and how they were ‘naughty’ on the weekend because they had a large meal with friends. Sam bites into a sausage roll and starts to feel bad for eating it, thinking: this is a bad food; I’ll have to exercise it off later. What Sam and coworkers are exhibiting is food guilt: the negative feeling many people have when they think they’ve eaten something they shouldn’t, or that they’ve overindulged. It often comes with self-blame and feeling ashamed or disgusted with oneself. ….[READ]

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