Eating Disorder Definition
Emotional Eating
 
What is Emotional Eating?
 
Definitions:  Emotional Eating  Binge Eating  Anorexia  Bulimia  Yo-Yo Dieting

What is Emotional Eating?

Is emotional eating an issue for you?  You don't have to be overweight to have and emotional eating problem. Eating large amounts of food doesn't always mean that you have an eating disorder. Most of us overeat from time to time as the stresses of every day life often cause us to turn to food for comfort. It's true—eating can be very soothing! But when does this eating emotional response turn from a simple pleasure into an emotional eating problem?

Do any of the following sound familiar?
  • You feel your eating is out of control.
  • You feel you don't matter, that you're unappreciated.
  • You feel consistently bored.
  • You find confrontation frightening.
  • You eat to avoid (choose one or more) work, sex, family obligations.
  • You find intimacy difficult.
  • You find it difficult to get in touch with your feelings.
  • You find it hard to say no.
  • You diet frequently, but rarely lose weight.
  • You have feelings of shame and guilt associated with overeating.
Is this you? Using food for self-comfort began when Mom gave us our first cookie for being good. Is it any wonder that we want to recreate those positive reinforcements? Food and feelings are bound together. But when we use food to cover up emotions, it becomes unhealthy eating.

At Solutions we have programs to turn emotional eating around, help you understand the causes of emotional eating and how your eating emotional response and emotional eating habits relate to obesity and compulsive eating.  When you better understand what causes emotional eating you are on your way to breaking free from emotional eating and learning skills needed to make healthy lifestyle changes.

Please contact us today.

More definitions: Emotional Eating  Binge Eating  Anorexia  Bulimia  Yo-Yo Dieting 


Solutionsweigh Program for Eating Disorders
1517 Franklin Avenue, Suite # 100
Mineola (Long Island), NY 11501 USA

Virginia E. Porcello, Ph.D., LMHC, CEDS, Director
Phone 516.877.0200  |  Fax 516.877.0211

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