Do you tend to eat a lot when you are stressed?

The reason for this is that your body is finding energy. If the food you it will be the substitute for the hours you don't sleep. This way your body can continue functioning even when your having less hours of sleep. Most people when stress are like this they eat for energy.

Yes I also do the same thing I eat a lot when I am stressed maybe due to too much mental usage & physically stress that I need to make up.

There have been times when I have been quite stressed and I would visit my local grocery store and pick up one of my favourite items to eat, chocolate! This seems to do the trick in making me feel good inside although I have to be careful otherwise I could start to encounter weight problems! I think there's a saying that chocolate helps you to relax anyway due to some of the ingredients contained within chocolate. Well, have a nice time at your friend's wedding! Andrew

I eat a lot when i`m stressed or when i`m having some free time and i`m bored . I had 76 kg and now i`m having just 72 . I`m a guy , and i want to mentain myself . So , i try to make all the time something, or when my friends are free too, we go for a jogging in the park and i eat just fruits and drink natural juices . In that way, you will be able to lose a lot of weight so fast . You should eat a little food too , but try to eat fruits whenever you are hungry . Don`t eat bananas . Eat greapfruits or apples .

In contrary, I don't have an appettite to eat when I'm stressed. Sleeping as well. All the people in the world knows if I am stressed, I look very exhausted and there's no way to deny it because obviously I am.

I am quite the opposite actually. When i am stressed out about something my stomach is usually in knots so there is no way i can eat.

We are so the same! I am jealous of other people losing weight when they are depressed, but me, I'm gaining weight! Thinking about my problems makes me want to eat more!

Yes, when i am stressed, i don't feel hungry and tends to eat almost double the regular meals. Seems like, it's the usual norm that when people gets stressed, they tends to eat a lot to replaced the used energy. But weird, on certain circumstances, i tends to eat less portion than my usual meals. But, that don't usually occurs. Most of the time, i will tends to eat more and increased my weight. Hope you will be able to slim down, to fit into your dress.

I was like that when I was in college. I grew fat because I resorted to emotional eating when I was having trouble at home and with my then-boyfriend, to think that I was in our college's cheering squad! I should've known better, right? I lost quite a few pounds when i started going out with my friends and dancing again. But a year or two after I graduate, I got stressed out because of work again. I turned to eating anything salty and sweet, and well, you know what happened next. Now I'm back to my active self. Whenever I feel stressed out, I just go to a spa for a massage or to a salon for a hair spa. There were times when I just watch a movie or go shopping (more often, window-shopping). I guess you just have to try to steer clear from anything, or anyone, that's giving you too much stress. Well, it might sound impossible so I guess you just have to cope or deal with stress differently, like I did.. and don't hate yourself for gaining weight, it'll just add stress on you.

I do eat sweet food like dessert and ice cream it makes me forget being sad for awhile bit never rely on it. it just gives me temporary relief but not a solution.

No, not at all. I won't eat as long as i am stressed. TATA.

Hi Raja Yes I do the same, used to do a lot earlier as a student before exams and results announcement, then later when there were tensions in work, but now being retired that is all in the past, now even if there are any small tensions that does not make any difference in eating habits. Yes by the way I told you about the general Motors diet- how did it work? or did you gorge on thinking about how much weight you would loose??!!

I also eat a lot when I am stressed out but I really control myself cause I dont want to gain weight. My sister and I have the same situation but her situation is a lot better than mine cause even if she eats a lot her stomach doesnt get round.

yup...while most people loss weight when under stress i gain weight when i'm under stress. eating serves as a stress reliever to me. when i'm under stress i usually eat my favorite food or some food the like to eat at that moment to allow my mind to be relieved even just for a moment from stress.