How do you break a habit of emotional eating?

Question

I eat when I am stressed, bored, sad, and sometimes when I am happy. Food has become my primary coping mechanism and I am aware it is affecting my health and my relationship with my body. How do you break the pattern of turning to food for emotional regulation?

alexander_white · Accepted Answer

First identify the emotion before you eat. Just pausing and naming what you are feeling creates a gap between the trigger and the response. You do not have to not eat but making it a conscious choice rather than an automatic one changes the relationship.

riley_hall · Answer

Emotional eating fills an emotional need, not a physical one. The work is building your capacity to tolerate difficult emotions without immediately soothing them. Therapy, particularly DBT, specifically teaches these skills.

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