Are your emotions weighing you down?

Research shows that nearly half of all adults in the UK eat to change their negative moods and emotions, with around 3.5 million of us then feeling guilt over our emotional reliance on food.

With 29 million people, over 60 percent of the UK adult population, now overweight or obese, these disturbing facts could be the key to helping thousands of people take control of their eating habits and lead happier, healthier lives.

Sandy Newbigging, Mind Detox Therapist and author of Life Changing Weight Loss agrees: “I have repeatedly found that excess weight is never the problem, but rather a symptom of one or more physical and/or emotional problems. Negative emotions are triggers for ‘comfort eating’. To avoid having to deal with emotions such as boredom, grief, loneliness and guilt it is common for people to keep themselves busy by numbing the feelings with food. If you want to change your emotional eating patterns you must discover what emotional triggers are causing you to turn to food for comfort.”

A new Emotional Eating Kit from Bach is a set of three flower essences to give a helping hand with diet and healthy living regimes. It is the first product available in the UK to specifically help with emotional eating. You can create your own individual combination and adapt it to suit your changing moods. The essences are alcohol and additive free and suitable for the whole family.

Bach Original Flower Essences are a system of 38 essences to help you manage your emotions and fulfill your potential. Made using plants that are grown mostly in the gardens of the Bach Centre, they are produced according to Dr Bach’s traditional methods, which date back over 75 years.

Bach Emotional Eating Kit includes the essences:

Crab Apple – When you feel unclean or dislike something about yourself, Crab Apple helps you accept yourself and your imperfections. This new body confidence means you won’t need to rely on food to make you feel good.

Cherry Plum – When you fear you might lose control of your diet, Cherry Plum can help you to think and act rationally around food.

Chestnut Bud – when you find yourself repeating the same dieting mistakes, Chestnut Bud helps you gain knowledge from your experience. This means you are less likely to fall into your old bad habit of reaching for food when things get tough.

Sandy Newbigging believes the new kit can help people take control of their emotional eating: “The Bach Emotional Eating Kit can help you cope with the various negative feelings and emotions that may be affecting your eating habits and help you make positive changes to your lifestyle”.

Bach Original Flower Essences Emotional Eating Kit costs £9.95 and is available exclusively from Boots. For more information, visit Bachremedies.co.uk. Always read the label.