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How to break the shame spiral around emotional eating

I stress-eat when I'm overwhelmed but then feel guilty about the eating, which makes me more stressed, so I eat more, and I cannot find the exit door from this cycle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You are caught in a feedback loop where the solution becomes the problem, revealing the complex relationship between comfort and self-judgment.

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