Emotional Eater?

Are you an Emotional Eater? We are suppose to answer the following seven questions. The last time you ate too much:

1. Did you notice your hunger coming on fast, or did it grow gradually?
2. When you got hungry, did you feel an almost desperate need to eat something right away?
3. When you ate, did you pay attention to what went in your mouth, or did you just stuff it in?
4. When you got hungry, would any nutritious food have sufficed, or did you need a certain type of food or treat to satisfy yourself?
5. Did you feel guilty after you ate?
6. Did you eat when you were emotionally upset or experiencing feelings of "emptiness"?
7. Did you stuff in the food very quickly?

If you are like me and answered yes TO ALL OF THEM, than we are emotional eaters. So the real reason we are all so hungry - PHANTOM HUNGER.

"You eat when you aren't really hungry because you have two stomachs - one real, the other phantom. The hunger in your belly signals you when your system has a biological requirement for food. If that was the only signal of hunger you received, you'd be thin. It's the phantom stomach that causes the problem. The phantom stomach sends out a signal demanding food when unruly emotions and unsolved personal agendas start pushing themselves into awareness and you feel compelled to eat, or more accurately to stuff yourself and shut the feelings up."

So here is the question to answer: What triggers your phantom hunger?

For Me: When I feel hopeless - no control from a situation, powerless. Example:- at work my boss screamed at me on the phone and threatened to "dock my pay". He reacts to situations like this...I didn't respond to him even though he had verbally abused me. I allowed him to treat me this way. Instead of handling the situation with inner power, I cowered and turned to food this week. I know there are other triggers - that was just one I recognized. How about you?