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Eating for the wrong reasons


Are you eating because you are truly hungry, or indulging for emotional reasons? Learn to read your body's hunger signals.


Does this scenario sound familiar: You're sitting at home with nothing particular to do, and so you go rooting around your kitchen cupboards, just to see what's there. Before you know it, you find yourself sitting at the kitchen table with an empty bag of cookies in front of you.

 

While we are programmed to eat as a result of feeling hungry, many people also feel an urge to eat certain foods when they experience certain emotions, or when they find themselves in certain settings. Often, the foods of choice in these cases are "forbidden foods" – the same fat- and calorie-laden foods you try to resist while on a...


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