Weight Loss - How to Stop Emotional Eating

By Alicia Cramer

Emotional eating means consuming large quantities of food, mainly junk foods, in order to suppress an emotion. It is estimated that nearly 75% of overeating is caused by emotions. Many of us have the idea that food consumption can give us temporary relief from the emotional distress that we go through.

Weight Loss and Emotional Eating - Letting Go of the Things That Drive You to the Frigde

By Dr. Becky Gillaspy

Two things often lumped together are weight loss and emotional eating and for a good reason.  If we didn't eat for emotional reasons and instead learned to listen to our body and eat only when it was hungry we wouldn't be overly concerned with weight loss because it simply wouldn't be much of an issue.