Emotional eating

Emotional eating means turning to food in response to feelings rather than hunger — stress, sadness, boredom, loneliness, but also joy. In itself, it isn't a pathology; people have always woven food and emotion together. It becomes a problem when it turns into your primary way of regulating emotions, or when it leaves you feeling guilty or at odds with how you want to treat your body.

Working through emotional eating isn't about "learning to eat less." It's about understanding what drives you to food when you aren't hungry — and finding other ways to take care of yourself in difficult moments. The change isn't just in your diet; it's in your relationship with yourself.