Emotional Eating

In Why Diets Don't Work, I wrote that one of the many reasons diets fail is that we try to lose the weight without losing the reason. We often eat for emotional reasons. In a nutshell...

Emotional eating is eating for another reason than because you’re hungry. If you overeat often, chances are that food has become your drug of choice, as well as your body’s programmed response to factors such as stress, loneliness, boredom, or sadness. Rather than dealing with a negative event or emotion in a solution-oriented manner, you may have learned to numb your problems with food.

The Diet Channel:
Emotional Eating Part 1: What is Emotional Eating?
Emotional Eating Part 2: How to Identify Your Overeating Triggers.
Emotional Eating Part 3: Common Food Binging Cycles.
Emotional Eating Part 4: How to Change Your Eating Patterns Permanently.