Stop Emotional Eating

Stop-Emotional-Eating.net aims to help you end your battle with emotional overeating.

This site explores the psychological reasons behind why we overeat - mainly due to stress and our feelings.

If you're just starting out you may want to read our introductory articles like:

- What Is Emotional Overeating?

- Are You An Emotional Eater?

If you want to know how to stop emotional overeating check out:

- How To Stop Emotional Overeating

We also offer you tons of free articles and resources in our Emotional Overeating Tips section.

We're always adding new resources so remember to bookmark this site and check back soon - Thank you for visiting.

Emotional overeating is consuming food in order to avoid or stuff down uncomfortable feelings. You eat to cope with life. You eat for reasons other than physical hunger and the nourishment of your body.

It comes in many forms. You could be eating because you're angry, depressed, scared, anxious, bored, tired or even overly excited.

Left unchecked, this habit can also lead to more serious problems like bulimia, binge eating disorder and compulsive eating.

It’s estimated that 75% of overeating is due to emotional reasons.

According to Dr Roger Gould, the creator of the Shrink Yourself program:

“Emotional overeating makes it impossible to lose weight and keep it off despite good intentions.

Food has become so much more than a tasty treat. It has become a cure-all; something with magical properties that makes people feel great.

It takes hard work to give up the magic and have to learn more effective ways to handle the tension of life. The Emotional Eater must learn to let food go psychologically and then they can lose weight.”

The good news is that you can overcome this habit. But instead of trying to fix the food (with a diet) you have to address the real cause of overeating - your emotions.

Once you address the real cause of why you overeat, the weight will start to come off - for good.

Shrink Yourself Review
A review of the Shrink Yourself program.

3 Causes of Emotional Overeating
3 common causes of emotional overeating and what to do about them.

Stress Eating
Learn more about one of the most common reasons for overeating.