"Here's something to chew on as the National Football League prepares to kick off a new season Thursday night: sports fans turn to junk food to console themselves when their team goes down to defeat, new research suggests."
The unofficial start of fall is here - professional football season! But can watching football make you fat? Check out what a research study found. This assignment is a fun way to use your psychology knowledge to everyday life.
Should you choose to complete this assignment for course credit, please do the following:
- Read this article posted on WebMD.
- What is meant by emotional eating? How can emotional eating relate to *next week's* topic of stress?
- Are you a victim of emotional eating? (Only respond to this particular question if you feel comfortable with others seeing your response). If yes, what can you do to kick the habit?
- If you're a football fan, are you going to gain weight this season (granted these results hold true)? In other words, how is your team looking this year?
Happy football watching! May the odds be ever in your favor :)
Emotional eating is when you choose an unhealthy food group based on how you are feeling. Emotional eating relates to stress because stress can cause inadequate eating habits. Stressful situations can engage unhealthy choices. At times I am a victim of emotional eating. Due to a busy schedule, eating certain foods can take my mind off of stressful situations. In order to kick this habit, I could purchase healthier food. Surrounding myself with healthier choices can encourage me to eat healthier. I am not a huge football fan, so gaining weight due to football season will not happen to this girl.
ReplyDeleteStress and feelings can cause emotional eating. Emotional eating can go with this weeks topic,because for that brief moment while food is being enjoyed, one "forgets" about the stressors causing pain. I feel that I am the exact opposite when I am stressed. I find that I am never hungry during finals week or during stressful times. I am not a football fan...or an TV sports fan, so I will not suffer from emotional eating!
ReplyDeleteDo I think you may gain weight during football season, yes because when you get together with groups of friends to watch the game you are eating snack/muchy food, and not the food that is healthy and good for you. If the team that I want to win ends up loosing it is not going to make a difference over what I eat. I will eat whatever I want after the game and truly not care if they win or loose. Emotional eating is when you eat something unhealthy because how you feel and you think by eating that certain thing it will make you feel better. Now do I think stress has an impact on what you eat, yes because stress is something that makes me not hungry if I get really stress like during finals week. And no I do not think of myself as an emotional eater and no I hope I don't gain any weight during the season.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating can be caused by stress, letting feelings get the best of us and making poor food choices. Stressful situations can cause unhealthy choices, whether that's eating bad food or not eating at all. I hate to admit that I am an emotional eater when I'm stressed or worked up about something, although sometimes my appetite is affected in a different way and I am just not hungry. I try to distract myself from emotional eating when I know that I'm stressed or upset by either removing junk food from the room or keeping my hands busy doing something else. I live with the heartbreak of being a Vikings fan so I hope emotional eating won't affect me this season!
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is the action of consuming comfort foods in order to feel better. When stress takes over the body, we turn to something that can release that stress and make the situation seem less detrimental. Many people take that into account when it comes to comfort food in order to release stress. They look towards food such as chocolate, candy,fast food,etc. I believe that I am a victim of emotional eating especially if its the really high emotions such as happy or excited or if I'm feeling the stress settle in. I think in order for me to kick this habit they are going to have to completely ban candy from the stores. I have a very crazy sweet tooth and I love rewarding myself with a slice of chocolate after a long day or an achievement I've worked really hard to reach. If the scale starts going up then maybe I'll try to limit myself on my reward system. I sure hope I don't gain weight this season! I'm a Minnesota Vikings fan so their games definitely keep me on the edge of my seat so some emotional eating may need to take place but hopefully not this Sunday! Vikings leading Detroit 14-6 second quarter!!
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is eating certain types of food for your feelings, usually when you are stressed or unhappy you eat unhealthy foods. When you are stressed it is easy to turn to food and eat. I agree with the article that football can make you fat. I know a lot of people who turn to food when they are upset that their favorite team loses.
ReplyDeleteI am definitely an emotional eater. When I'm upset about something I like to go for my sweets. Ironically I am watching the Vikings play right now and they aren't doing so well. I usually start off pretty happy for their games but by the end of the game I'm in need of some emotional eating. Guess we'll find out in a bit how this season is going to be.
Emotional eating is choosing your diet based on the way you are feeling. In most of the cases, emotional eating is done with unhealthy food when you are not even hungry, you eats simple to feel comforted. Stress is the emotion most closely tied to emotional eating. When you are stressed, a common reaction would be to reach for a fatty food. I believe I have the opposite reaction when it comes to stress and emotional eating. If I am very stressed out I don’t eat as much. I also naturally feel guilty if I eat a fatty food, so if I do eat when I am stressed, I shy away from those food because I do not want to add the guilt to the stress level. I did enjoy the self-affirmation point to the article, I thought it is a great idea and will try it out the next time I am feeling stressed. I am personally not a football fan. I do believe that the football season will cause some to gain weight, it may also be due to the fact that it takes place during fall, a time of year that people normally tend to gain weight.
ReplyDeleteThis article discusses emotional eating in response to a stressful, disappointing situation, when an individual’s football team loses. Emotional eating is directly correlated to stress because it usually occurs when an individual is stressed in some way. They turn to “comfort food” to feel better about the situation. I try not to have junk food in the house, so I will not be tempted. I am a football (soccer) fan. My team, Arsenal, should do well this season. Their games are always early in the morning because it is London time, so I do not usually have a desire to eat anything besides breakfast after the games.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when a person eats junk food as a way to deal with their emotions. This topic relates to stress because this is a poor method of coping and handling stress. Eating foods high in sugar and fats is not the best way to deal with stress. I am guilty of this from time to time because I have a busy schedule. I love chocolate, ice cream, and pizza too much. To avoid this, I try to surround myself with healthy choices and plan my meals ahead. I love football, but I do not plan on gaining any weight. The Detroit Lions somehow beat the Vikings today so I am happy!
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating can be referred to as eating went in a stressful situation, feeling depressed, or having anxiety. Emotional eating can also be related to comfort foods. A person in a bed mood tends to take comfort in food. Overeating or eating unhealthy foods while feeling emotional can add to weight and stress. Stress which can also cause emotional eating can have many causes such as school, work, social life, or even sports. The football fan article that I read is slightly strange. I do not think I would gain weight if my team was having a losing season. Although I am not as into football as most people, and there are some hardcore fans. I could see my dad or anyone in a fantasy league going to comfort food during a game and when their team loses. I can also see emotional eating and drinking during an intense game. I am a victim of emotional eating. When I turn to comfort food it is usually when I am stressed or bored. When I am stress I also like to work out. Working out isn’t exactly kicking the habit but it is kind of counteracting it. I do not know if I will ever kick the habit, but there is no way I am getting out of shape!
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is consuming either unhealthy foods such as those high in sugar or saturated fats, or unhealthy portions of food to make yourself feel better. Emotional eating can compare to stress because people who are stressed tend to be hungrier more often and often crave unhealthy foods.
ReplyDeleteI would say that I am kind of an emotional eater. I notice on weeks that I have a lot going on and start to get stressed out that I usually crave ice cream or am always hungry. While I crave ice cream, I avoid that habit by not having ice cream in my apartment because if it is not available I am not going to eat it. To curb the hunger I try and eat fruits instead of sugary food.
I'm not a huge NFL fan, so I won't be gaining weight during the season. Even if I was a fan, I do not think I would gain weight because when I participated in sports, I do not remember emotionally eating to make myself feel better from a loss. I usually got mad about the loss and that made me work harder in the gym, not eat my anger in food.
Emotional eating is eating under stress or joy because eating certain foods simulate pleasure in the brain. I believe that big sporting events, like football, can make a person gain weight, because during the football season, a person's diet changes; chicken wings, beer, pizza, and dips and chips that are not healthy, consumed in greater quantity than normal.
ReplyDeleteTo kick the habit of gaining weight during the season, changing your gameday foods can help, but so can simply standing during the games and moving.
Emotional eating is when someone eats junk food or large amounts of food in order to feel better. Emotional eating can be linked to stress because some people when they are stressed tend to eat to make themselves feel better. I have been a victim of emotional eating if I can feeling upset I like to go to McDonalds and get a cheeseburger and some fries, I think we all have been a victim of emotional eating at some point in our lives. I have tried to kick this habit by keeping healthier food at my apartments and only eating out once in a while instead of multiple times a week. I am not really a NFL fan but I love watching college football especially Oregon. I don't think that I will gain weight this year but if there is a big Oregon game on I will probably order a pizza and have a pop, but again this would only be once or twice the whole season.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is consuming unhealthy foods whenever you are feeling down in order to make yourself feel better. This topic relates to the topic of stress and its effects because emotional eating is something many of us use in order to handle stressful situation. Plenty of times whenever we are stressed we eat. I would have to say that I am a victim of emotional eating based on the fact that I tend to consume more food whenever the Lakers lose a game or whenever I am stressed while studying for an exam or for any class in general. It's one of the coping mechanisms that I use. It won't be easy for me to just let go of junk food but I can limit the amount of it that I consume. This is the only method I see working out for me, otherwise, I get majorly distracted. Hopefully my team does better, cause right now they aren't off to a good start.
ReplyDeleteThe article, “Can Football Make You Fat?” immediately caught my attention. One of Americas’ favorite pastimes seems to be Sunday football filled with drinking and eating. Personally, I do not like football. So for people to consume their lives with one sport three days a week seems ridiculous to me and then to think there are people that have so much stress over one game is just a waste of time in my opinion. This article is another reason why I think football is an unnecessary stress in peoples’ lives. Why put time into something that causes one to emotionally eat?
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is eating junk food or large amounts of food in order to make themselves feel better when they are feeling stressed. Next week’s topic has to do with theories of personalities and I believe this article ties in with this topic, because depending on what type of person you are and your personality, you may be an emotional eater, especially when your football team loses. Personally, I am not an emotional eater. I am the exact opposite in that I do not eat when I am stressed, but I know a lot of people that do emotionally eat and once they do this to themselves, they are immediately unhappy with their body or how they feel physically.
Choosing what you eat based on how you are feeling is referred to as emotional eating. For example if someone is feeling down and stressed they are more likely to eat junk foods where as someone who just had an exciting event in their life may turn to fruits, vegetables, or other healthy alternatives. I am a big football fan but I don't feel that the winning or losing of my team alters my eating habits at all. Plain and simply I eat terrible while i'm watching football regardless of whether they are being pounding on or the ones doing the pounding. I feel like my football time is my junk food time. Otherwise any other day I eat pretty well and workout regularly. I gain weight over football season (fall/winter) because I eat hardier due to the colder weather and I do more strength training than cardio (the opposite of what I do during the hotter summer/spring months) it doesn't have anything to do with the fact i'm watching football religiously at least two nights a week. I believe this article ties into our next topic because I feel the way people eat has a lot more to do with their personality rather than the winning or losing of their football team.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when a person's emotions cloud a person's judgment when making a decision to eat healthy or unhealthy. Emotional eating relates to the topic of stress because when someone is stressed out they are more likely to turn towards junk food than healthy food because most times junk food is that persons comfort food. I know this because this happens to me when I am stressed out or just having a bad day. It will be a little easier to curb this because I am on a tighter budget than I was last year so I have that in the back of my mind when I am making choices of what kind of food I will be buying. I am not a huge football fan but I know when I was in sports in high school when my team lost I tended to eat a little more or eat more junk food. So I think it will definitely depend on how good the team is if a fan will gain, loose, or stay the same weight.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating happens when you are upset about something and you look towards food to help make you feel better. Emotional eating can tie into our next topic of stress, because a lot of the time when a person is stressed, they prefer to eat junk food and a lot of it in the hopes of reducing that stress. Like the article said, if you are an emotional eater and you know that something to trigger it is about to occur, make sure you have healthier options in stock so you won’t be as tempted to eat unhealthy. I am a football fan, but not to the extent of getting really upset if the team I favor looses. The only thing I gain is bragging rights.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when a person eats depending on how he or she feels. This relates to the topic of stress because eating when stressed out is very common. More than likely, eating when you are stressed out means lots of junk food and then regretting it instantaneously. This comfort food makes us feel better at the time and may also just be something to do if we are bored. When I am bored, I have to remind myself to find something to do instead of just pigging out. I will need my junk food for when my Vikes lose. Hopefully they can play better than they did on Sunday. Either way, I'll still wear my Jared jersey proudly!
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is the act of allowing your emotions to dictate your eating patterns. This means that your emotions can cause you to over or under eat in order to feel better. I agree with the article that football can make you fat. Think about it you spend long periods of time sitting watching the game as well as you add in the emotional factor of when your team is playing and it sounds like the perfect storm. I am a Detroit lions fan and although they beat the Vikings yesterday I think I will be emotionally eating a lot this season.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when you turn to food as a comfort when you are upset about something, or you think food can help fill some sort of void you are experiencing. Emotional eating can always be when you eat just because you are bored. Stress and emotional eating are connected because when some people get stressed out they turn to food. Stress can make you upset and sometimes depressed and some people turn to food to try and help relieve that stress. Sometimes yes I do eat when I am upset or just bored. To stop myself from doing that I could find a more productive thing to do when I feel that way.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when you eat to comfort your emotions. When you become stressed, this says that you would eat comfort food to make your self feel better. Personally I think that this article is incorrect. I believe that the majority of the time you eat snack food whether or not you are emotionally attached to a team or not. It is tradition to eat snack food during football season. In other instances I could see where emotionally you feel the need to eat and it may affect what types of food you eat, but I think personally that the emotional response to football is not what makes you eat.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard the expression, “eating your feelings?” That is all emotional eating means. When you get sad or depressed usually the first thing you will do is go and eat a bunch of junk food. I have yet to hear of someone who goes and eats fruits and vegetables after getting dumped or, in this case, watching your favorite football team loses. That is because when we are emotional, we just want to eat everything that is bad for us. We do not think about the fact that it is unhealthy; we just eat it. Football season is one of those times when people get upset and depressed a lot over their teams. I, myself, do not care about any one team that much as to get overly upset when they lose. I can understand it though because I get that way when one of my favorite television shows does not end the way I wanted it to. Everyone has different things that stress them out enough to start emotional eating, but I do agree that football season is one of the most popular.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating is when you eat based off of how you're feeling. You eat to comfort yourself, using food to fill a void. Emotional eating relates to stress because stressful times are usually the cause and reason for an individual engaging in emotional eating. Turning to food is such an easy thing to do at times of stress. For a lot of individuals, it's easy to deal with stresses by grabbing a pizza or a tub of ice cream, especially in regards to sports. I feel as though a lot of individuals gain weight during football season because if you're not pigging out on junk food and drinking a beer, you're not doing NFL Sundays right. It's just part of American culture throw a few back and snack during games. Being a Minnesota Vikings fan, I'm almost always on edge. I can definitely see myself doing a little emotional eating this football season.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating refers to eating in order to console yourself. In this article it refers to eating due to depression of a sort, when one's team loses the fan tends to eat more, especially foods high in sugar and fat.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone succumbs to emotional eating at one point or another, unless those that have sever eating disorders. A solution to this habit may be for one to stock their fridges with healthier snacks, particularly around game day, in case the team in question does lose the temptation is no longer in the house.
I think I have enough control on what I eat, granted it might not be the healthiest, it won't be due to my football team. But I am hoping for a good season and another playoff run this year.
Emotional eating is the process of choosing unhealthy food because of feeling sad and stressed. In the society we live in it is very common to eat during periods of stress. Many people feel happiness when eating their favorite foods, which causes people to crave them. Stress will create these cravings. I can say I do give into emotional eating, but only during really sad and emotional situations in my life. Ways to get past this is to dedicate your life to fitness and not give into bad cravings. I am a football cheerleader for USD, which causes me to become very dedicated to the sport. We are currently 1-1, which means there is hope for a successful season.
ReplyDeleteEmotional eating means that you eat and indulge in comfort food in order to make yourself feel better about a situation. This concept of emotional eating relates to stress because stressful situations can cause someone to eat based on how they are feeling which means that they would eat fattier comfort food when stressed and better, healthier foods when they aren't as stressed.
ReplyDeleteI think that I do sometimes emotional eat when I am stressed over school work or a test. I do enjoy comfort foods when I am stressed out. That's usually the only time I find myself doing that though. I watch a lot of football and I haven't ever found myself emotional eating due to how my team did that week. It's only week 2 of football season and my team has lost one game and won one game so they haven't done too horribly yet. I am hopefully not looking to gain any weigh this football season because I'm hoping my team will have a good season.