I Ate a Donut Because I Was Sad and Other Lessons About Emotional Eating
LatestLadies, do you eat when you’re happy? Do you eat when you’re sad? Do you eat when you’re feeling good? And do you eat when you’re feeling bad? If you eat when you’re having an emotion, then you are an emotional eater! And if you aren’t, then you are probably reading this from beyond the grave and I’m sorry/AWESOME YOU ARE A GHOST.
Real Simple, the addictive lifestyle magazine that exists solely to help upper-middle class women buy stuff to organize their other stuff and also, teach them how to use things to do other things (e.g., avocado husks as pot holders, scrunchies as bracelets, and toothpaste to do anything), is attempting to tackle a much touchier topic — emotional eating. And I don’t like it! It’s like when Fox news tries to cover real news — it’s unnatural.
In “The facts about emotional eating”, writers Alice Oglethorpe and Noelle Howey explore what makes people (women) so into eating when they’re experiencing emotions. The whole piece follows the standard woman’s magazine logic of “everything in moderation especially moderation” that everyone who’s ever read a woman’s magazine already knows. We get it, we get it, eat when you’re hungry, get some exercise, wear flattering clothes, we know. It’s so tiring and it’s not a story! They might as well have written, “Eating food is good, but if you eat too many foods then that’s not good, and so don’t eat too many foods! But also, don’t not eat foods. Enjoy!”