# Need alternatives to emotional eating

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alternatives-to-emotional-eating/626237>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 25, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alternatives-to-emotional-eating/626237 "2012-06-25T12:55:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alternatives-to-emotional-eating/626237/61 "2012-06-28T19:56:37Z")

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You have to learn to eat when you are hungry and stop when you are not. This is very easy to say and very hard to do. Eating cures hunger–nothing else.

Every time you want to eat, ask yourself “Am I hungry?” If you are not, don’t eat.

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**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alternatives-to-emotional-eating/626237/62 "2012-06-28T21:25:48Z")

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> [@Annie-Xmas](#):
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> Eating cures hunger–nothing else.

I have to get this tattooed across my forehead.

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**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-alternatives-to-emotional-eating/626237/63 "2012-06-28T21:29:13Z")

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> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Self-pleasuring?

Seconded.

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