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Decoding Your Hunger: Are You Really Hungry or Not? - Cleveland Clinic
There’s a fine line between emotional and physical hunger
We eat when we’re stressed and upset. We eat when we’re happy and celebrating. And sometimes (often times) we eat out of sheer boredom.
“Boredom is probably the number 1 emotional type of hunger,” says psychologist Susan Albers, PsyD. “We often ignore, avoid or negotiate our true hunger signs – including when we’re already full and just looking for something to entertain us.”
But the thing is, there’s a difference between true physical hunger and emotional hunger.
There’s a fine line between emotional and physical hunger
We eat when we’re stressed and upset. We eat when we’re happy and celebrating. And sometimes (often times) we eat out of sheer boredom.
“Boredom is probably the number 1 emotional type of hunger,” says psychologist Susan Albers, PsyD. “We often ignore, avoid or negotiate our true hunger signs – including when we’re already full and just looking for something to entertain us.”
But the thing is, there’s a difference between true physical hunger and emotional hunger.