Includes questions helping to determine whether you or someone you love is involved in emotional eating.
Find out whether your emotions affect your eating patterns. It may be to your advantage to talk to someone about your eating.
When a person eats when not hungry, there are often deeper issues at play. Eating is soothing, and when a person is hungry, it soothes hunger. Eating when not hungry implies that the eating is soothing something else.
Turning to eating when sad, anxious, or angry provides a quick hit of pleasure, but it does little to deal with the core emotional issues.
Binge eating, most simply, is eating a lot of food in a short period of time. When binge eating causes are emotions, binge eating falls into the category of emotional eating.
If you find yourself eating in secret, you may be participating in emotional eating. Eating in secret implies that nourishment is not your goal when you eat.
If food becomes more attractive as stress levels rise, you may be experiencing a type of emotional eating.
What happens when eating isn't an option to help soothe negative emotions? It may be an opportunity to learn something very valuable.
When emotions rise, it can lead to eating that is out of control. If an emotional problem is fueling eating, and , rather than dealing with the core emotional problem.
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