Emotional Eaters- Sign of an Emotional Eater

Your hunger comes on suddenly.
You crave certain foods.
Your hunger is urgent and only a specific food will satisfy it.
You keep grazing more than you need all day.
You keep eating even after you are full.
You are often filled with a sense of regret or guilt after you have eaten.
You eat more than your body requires on more than 3 days per week.
You eat the whole packet of something without realizing it till you got to the end?
You crave the taste of a certain food or can't stop thinking of a certain food.
Going out late at night to get those extra treats you want.
Seeing, hearing or thinking about a particular food and then you must have it.
Binging, purging and not eating.
Feeling out of control in relation to food and possibly other aspects of your life.
Sneaking food - whilst cooking (all those times you were just doing the taste test).
- Whilst cleaning up.
- Because the kids couldn’t finish it.
- When no one is looking
- Standing in front of the fridge.
- Eating in the car.
- Hiding what you’re eating.

Emotional Eating decisions about what we want to eat come from the mind and the mouth, not the body

Signs of an Emotional Eater