Have you thought about your emotional hunger?

Many people have experienced emotional eating at some point in their lives. You don’t always eat to support what your physical body needs — you feed your emotions. Eating when feeling certain emotions can replace the emotional void and create a false sense of “fullness.” The core area of concern is not feeling powerless over emotional eating, it’s feeling powerless over your emotions.

Emotional hunger never can be satisfied with food. Emotional overeating can make you feel good, but afterwards, you’re left with feelings of guilt, shame and powerlessness. Often the guilt may lead to circular dieting. Diets don’t fail because you have lack willpower or control, they fail because your emotional needs are not being met. When you ignore these emotions, they continue many times with an unhealthy eating pattern.