Can you recognise the signs of emotional eating?

Your hunger or eating habits could well be linked with emotional eating.  Here are some methods of recognising if this is the case: 

• If you crave certain unhealthy foods, usually sweet or savoury but unlikely to be healthy snacks such as fruit or vegetables.
• You often don’t realise you have eaten so much.  Before you know it you have consumed a large chocolate bar and/or large packet of crisps/tub of icecream etc.
• You keep eating even if you feel full.
• You feel guilty having eaten, this is because you know you are not eating to satisfy energy requirements but more to satisfy emotional needs
• Your hunger is focussed on tastes or textures of food rather than the quality and energy value for the upcoming hours

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