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When mindful eating fails during stress responses

I practice mindful eating but when I am stressed I unconsciously finish entire bags of chips while watching Netflix and feel disgusted with myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Stress can trigger such unconscious survival behaviors that awareness itself becomes temporarily impossible, despite committed practice.

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