26/11/2025
“Stress Eating vs Real Hunger — Learn the Difference Before It Controls Your Weight”
Most people say they feel hungry all the time, but actual hunger is rare. What they experience is emotional or stress eating — triggered by work pressure, loneliness, boredom, or exhaustion. Stress releases cortisol, a hormone that increases cravings for salty, sugary, or crunchy foods.
Real hunger builds slowly. Stress hunger comes suddenly. Real hunger can be satisfied with a balanced meal. Stress hunger always wants “something specific.” Real hunger doesn’t cause guilt, but emotional eating always does.
To break this cycle, practice the 10-minute pause rule. When you feel a sudden urge to eat, drink water, breathe deeply, and wait 10 minutes. If you’re still genuinely hungry, eat. If not, it was emotional hunger.
Awareness is the first step to control. When you understand your triggers, you stop food from controlling your emotions. And when your emotions stabilise, your weight stabilises.
Motivational Quote by Dt. Sheela Seharawat:
“When you master your emotions, you master your cravings — and then your body follows.”
Diet Clinic provides emotional-eating counselling, personalised meal timing strategies, and lifestyle-focused nutrition plans to control cravings, reduce stress hunger, and build long-term mindful eating habits.
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