When your team loses, do you reach for food?

ninerbuff
ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
in Food and Nutrition
The reasons are fairly obvious: Researchers account the excessive eating to a need for comfort food in the face of what defeated fans see as a direct personal attack.

“For many people, the football team that you support is part of your identity,” says Yann Cornil, MS, lead researcher and a doctoral candidate at INSEAD, an international business school. “When your team loses, it threatens who you are. When there is such threat to your identity, you compensate by eating something unhealthy, something uplifting.”

http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-tips/when-your-sports-team-loses-you-eat-more
I'll be the first to say that when my team loses, it does affect my mood for awhile. Thankfully food isn't part of that mood.

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  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    For me, disappointment is one of those emotions that really causes eating problems. If you're emotionally invested into a team, the disappointment can really hit hard.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Just get Kaepernick to throw you a bag of chips...you won't be eating anything.
  • Poofy_Goodness
    Poofy_Goodness Posts: 229 Member
    I reach for another beer.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    Not me.

    I'm probably not emotionally invested enough - I went to several universities, plus I'll cheer for any team from my state if an alma mater isn't playing. That's a lot of teams to cheer for, so if one loses it's on to the next.
  • Flixie00
    Flixie00 Posts: 1,195 Member
    Sort of.

    I am a West Ham season ticket holder and as much as I love my team, I accept that they are never going to be the greatest. Knowing this, I hit the pub before a match, and if a good or bad result, will hit the pub after. This normally involves my eating of bad (but tasty) foods after leaving the pub.

    We are not having a good season :sad:
  • awtume9
    awtume9 Posts: 423 Member
    Just get Kaepernick to throw you a bag of chips...you won't be eating anything.

    burn
  • uconnwinsnc
    uconnwinsnc Posts: 1,054 Member
    I'm a Mets fan and a UConn fan. I have been expecting disappointment from the Mets since I was born in 1991.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    Nah, not really. While I enjoy sports and watch my teams religiously, in the end, it's just a game.

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