5 ways to tell if you are an emotional eater Overcome emotional eating: bit.ly/cravingsheet You might be an emotional eater but not realize you are. Which means, you might not be able to lose weight and have no idea why you can’t get yourself to stop eating. When i say “emotional eater” that doesn’t mean you have to be crying into a carton of ice cream. What it does mean is that any type of emotion, positive or negative, could be driving you to eat. If you suspect you are, or you want to learn how to move forward if you are this is a great episode for you. When you feel X you eat You know for sure you get stressed out at work, you’re grabbing something from vending machine. Had a busy day, ice cream on the couch after everyone’s in bed will help you decompress. These are classic emotional eating signs because you are literally avoiding emotion with food. You feel a strong emotional tie to food Someone just mentions chocolate cake and you get excited, anxious, now that’s all you can think about. You know when you have a bad day, food will help If you have a crap day and immediately start planning all the foods you’re going to eat to feel better than you’re an emotional eater You use food to self sooth or get through certain situations You consider food to be self care or love. You “wake up” after having eaten a lot and you’re not sure what happened If you are ever so checked out that you don’t remember eating If any of these rings a bell, a great piece of advice I can offer is to download the worksheet I have for you. This will help you gain some insight about your emotional eaing habits and how you can begin to take control of them!