Emotional eating is when we use food as a way to deal with our feelings, rather than to satisfy physical hunger. This might look like reaching for comfort food when you're feeling down, stressed, or even bored. The food becomes a way to fill a void, to soothe, or to distract from uncomfortable emotions.

I'm going to break it down for you as well as share my own experiences of both emotional eating and binge eating. I'll admit I knew about my tendencies to emotionally eat in the past but it wasn't untill I began writing my program and book that I remembered that I also had a binge eating episode; but more on that later.