Here are some reasons why you might eat when you’re not hungry – and what you can do about it.

You’re not hungry but you eat anyway:

Life and calorie control would be a whole lot easier if we only ate when we were truly hungry.  Then it would simply be a biological drive that needed to be satisfied – like downing a glass of water when your throat is parched. It’s the rare person who doesn’t eat for reasons other than hunger – most of us find ourselves doing it from time to time.  Read more »

You would think that people who eat healthy and stay slim would be the ones who spend a lot of time thinking about what they eat.  After all, how else could they maintain a healthy weight unless they’re focusing on every bite?  There are some clear differences in the way normal weight and overweight people approach food and eating – but what we’ve learned is that naturally trim people actually tend to think about food less than those who are watching their weight. 

Naturally slim people have a relatively comfortable relationship with food, so they don’t really focus on it all that much.  But for heavier people, the relationship is often more difficult and complex.  Overweight people tend to be preoccupied with food – which ones are good or bad, how much or how little they should eat (and when) – to the point where they end up thinking about food all the time. 

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