{"id":23,"date":"2010-10-15T16:31:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:31:14","slug":"eating-triggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/eating-triggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Of These Eating \u201cTriggers\u201d And \u201cRewards\u201d Make You Eat When Not Hungry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emotional eating<\/a> is caused by triggers and rewards.<\/p>\n

The following is a list of all the triggers and rewards that I have heard from my emotional eating clients. No single client had all of them; most have from 15-20, and different clients have a different combination.<\/p>\n

Rewards<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eating to reward myself when I feel no one else or nothing else will.
\n\u2022 Eating to feel good, comforted, happy, secure, centered, at home.
\n\u2022 Eating to give myself pleasure.
\n\u2022 Eating to experience being in control, to experience that no one can
\nstop me.
\n\u2022 Eating to celebrate.<\/p>\n

Triggers<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eating when I\u2019m nervous.
\n\u2022 Eating when I\u2019m bored.
\n\u2022 Eating when I\u2019m lonely.
\n\u2022 Eating when I want to take a break from work, as a diversion.
\n\u2022 Eating when I want to avoid doing something I don\u2019t want to do.
\n\u2022 Eating when I think there won\u2019t be enough food . (This is a response
\nto childhood deprivation. If there wasn\u2019t enough food to eat\u2014if you
\ndidn\u2019t eat the food right away it would be gone and you wouldn\u2019t be
\nable to eat at all\u2014you can get conditioned to eat whenever you see
\nfood whether you are hungry or not.)
\n\u2022 Eating when I\u2019m in social situations where everyone else is eating.
\n\u2022 Eating when I feel deprived of food.
\n\u2022 Eating when tired (to get energy).
\n\u2022 Eating when nauseas (to stop it).
\n\u2022 Eating when not doing anything specific (not necessarily bored).
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling sorry for myself.
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling unloved.
\n\u2022 Eating when emotionally charged.
\n\u2022 Eating when depressed.
\n\u2022 Eating when experiencing intense hurtful emotions.
\n\u2022 Eating when stressed.
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling guilty.
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling unlovable.
\n\u2022 Eating when anxious, angry, upset, sad, etc.
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling needy.
\n\u2022 Eating when feeling rejected.<\/p>\n

Some of my clients have suggested to me that they are driven to eat just
\nbecause food is in front of them, just before they \u201cstart\u201d a diet, when they
\nthink they can eat without gaining weight, or that they just can\u2019t stop eating
\nonce they start. These are not examples of eating triggers. They are just
\nsymptoms of other triggers and rewards.<\/p>\n

You eat in these four situations because at least one or more of the
\nother triggers and rewards are almost always present, so if there is food in
\nfront of you or you\u2019ve already started eating, the other triggers or rewards
\nhave you continue to eat even if you aren\u2019t hungry. But when all the real
\ntriggers and rewards have been de-conditioned, you will no longer eat in
\nthese situations.<\/p>\n

From my experience with my clients, I am convinced that most
\nemotional eating is the result of eating that has been conditioned to occur whenever there is a specific trigger or the desire for a reward present. Also from my experience, when you de-condition eating you\u2019ll stop overeating \u2026 for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emotional eating is caused by triggers and rewards. The following is a list of all the triggers and rewards that I have heard from my emotional eating clients. No single client had all of them; most have from 15-20, and different clients have a different combination. Rewards \u2022 Eating to reward myself when I feel … Continue reading “Which Of These Eating \u201cTriggers\u201d And \u201cRewards\u201d Make You Eat When Not Hungry?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}