As foreign exchange trader you spend ages next to your personal computer. Day becomes night, night becomes day and you lose yourself in fx trading chaos. Occasionally you forget about the world outside your monitor. Sometimes food is the last thing concerning you. And sometimes you have an amazing urge to nibble something tasty while you trade. Does online foreign exchange trading causes the unhealthy diet? Do forex traders overeat?
Working at home isn’t an easy task. It is vital to follow a sort of schedule or else you will fall into an “I-no-longer-care-about-myself” hole. Trading is fantastic, exciting and gripping job, but I met many forex traders that lose track of their non-forex life. The most widely acknowledged problem is overeating. Either you forget to eat at all and then approach your refrigerator like tropical cyclone or you continually nosh on everything you lay your eyes on ( well, more like your fingers, since your eyes are too busy having a look at charts ).
Overeating has biological and emotional reasons. If you trade online without eating between for a while, most probably you’ll eat too much at the following meal. When you tear that refrigerator door off you’ll feel no control of your eating because your biological clock was set to “food-break” a very long time ago. Emotional reason for overeating can be anything from stress to anger. If you lose a trade you are most sure to finish up pissed off for some time. That is’s when the annoyed eating starts. It can be Ben and Jerry ice cream or steak with mash potatoes – the result is the same. You end up eating more than you want.
in fact you do not need to be stressed or angry to be an emotional overeater. The so-called “stillness” can make you into a nibbling machine within just a few seconds. An emotional reason can just be a small portion of nothingness. Trading foreign exchange requires multitasking and lots of action from each one of us, so whenever there is quietness forex valuta trader might turn for extra bite! All of a sudden the eyes are free to look and the hands are free to snatch that cookie! And rather than having just couple of pieces you finish up overeating… Perhaps because you think there will be no other time to do so. The researchers say that people overeat while watching television. I think starring at charts and making decisions about trading orders can be considered a perfect condition for overeating too.
