After speaking and treating thousands of patients for weight control problems. it becomes apparent to me that work satisfaction issues correlate with the degree of "stress eating" that occurs when a patient comes home.
Personally, I have great job satisfaction...every day I get the chance to help people...whether it be a sick medical patient or a person with weight control issues, I am rewarded every day by seeing a patient get on that scale and see a huge smile....I watch patients whose self-esteem rises exponentially week after week, have a worried medical patient become calmer after I provide them with an explanation as to why their condition is benign, etc. When I come home from work, I do not feel hard pressed to grab a few drinks, eat snack foods etc.
However, people whose professions are less satisfactory...whether a person in the government who does the same beaurocratic job day after day with no tangible effect of "changing the world", a lawyer who sucks legal fees from their clients for doing nothing more than generating their own billable hours as opposed to really helping a person, and other professions where it is difficult to see the direct effect of "helping others", these people come home not happy and will often seek refuge in the wine and food sources that provide immediate gratification.
If you find yourself coming home not happy, try to find things that wil change this...obviously not easy to change jobs immediateyl, but perhaps outsode activites that allow you to feel "purpose"...volunterring? becoming active in philanthropic causes? Do something that makes you feel you are heloping others. When you come home feeling that you make a difference, you will find yourself happier.
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I tend to disagree with this as nurses and teachers in a recent study have been identified as unhealthy due to "high stress" -- and both of these positions help people quite a bit. Stress eating can also come from the fact that the patients nurses see are complex or perhaps the job is getting more and more things squeezed into one's shift -- and teachers are seeing more and more complex children and families in distress. Sometimes I would grab a glass of wine or a heavy appetizer just to escape from the misery I see in peoples' lives every day. Just a thought...
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