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Today, I'm going to spend some time talking about emotional eating.
The easiest way to define emotional eating is simply as eating that is not secondary to hunger. We all tend to do this at times. It's when we do that repeatedly, that it becomes a problem.
There are three types of emotional eating. The first and most common is called stress eating. We've all been stressed at some point. Stress eating you can think of as ...stress starts out low in the morning and starts to build throughout the day. The reason it's low in the morning is…