Emotional Eating vs Menopausal Cravings

What is Emotional Eating?

When food is used to assuage emotional needs but ultimately results in guilt and shame. Emotional eaters:

• Eat impulsively and cannot control when and how much they eat.

• Are unable to change their behaviour or explain what happens to them.

• Find themselves in a loop – wanting the end result to occur but not actually wanting to change, e.g. want to be slim but also be spontaneous in their eating.

• Feel that a life without the favourite food would be dull and joyless.