Why do we eat when stressed?

[bc201]

 

[Nika]

I don't eat, I create things its much healthier!

 

[Texty_F]

Comfort maybe

 

[fatwelly]

To beat ourselves up even more!!!!!

 

[Patchninja]

I think it's sometimes used as an excuse to eat. "I'm stressed so I need to comfort myself". Actually, the truth is that there is really no comfort in the food as you feel so bad after.
It's the little gremlin in your brain telling you to eat. You have to squash them!
It's the same if you're trying to give up smoking. You think you're going to feel all deprived, but the reality is the relief of no longer being a slave to tobacco. It's great not being a slave to food either!

 

[sammym]

I cant eat when I am stressed. I must be a strange one. I will over work instead to take my mind of things. On the other hand my hubby will eat for england and the whole of europe when he is stressed. I was ill earlier this year and he gained a stone worrying about me.

 

[liza_angel]

With me it depends on the worry, if i am nervous i stop eating but general things that stress me out turn me to food, i try so hard to fight them, but sometimes the urge is to great, but as already mentioned, kick myself for it after :-(