Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: Embrace Emotional Eating: Reading the Clues to Your Feelings and Needs

 Soon after birth we develop powerful emotional connections to feeding, eating, and food. We eat to socialize, nurture, express love, have fun, soothe a hurt, and reward ourselves for a job well done. In our food abundant environment, eating is a readily accessible way to add pleasure to our lives.

Emotional eating only becomes a problem when it’s over-used to cope with or avoid feelings. (Jeannette remembers the moment she began to turn to food to deal with her emotions; read her story about discovering the missing puzzle piece.)

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