http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/05/20/eliminate-emotional-overeating-and-shed-unwanted-pounds.aspxBy Christine Wheeler, MA Are you an emotional eater? Are you fed up with feeling overfed? Do you feel the need to eat when you're not even hungry? The truth is that most people reach for a comfort food when they're feeling down ... and they eat too muchenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/05/20/eliminate-emotional-overeating-and-shed-unwanted-pounds.aspx#191765Fri, 01 May 2009 02:40:01 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:191765curious7<p>Stress is a killer in more ways than one, how we handle our stresses determine a large part of our overall health. &nbsp;Some of us drink alcohol, some of us use drugs of one kind or another, then there are the eaters. &nbsp;We search for what is commonly called comfort food. &nbsp;One manner of fighting back, is to journal. &nbsp;Write down what you eat daily, time etc. &nbsp;Review the journal daily. &nbsp;This way we can see how we need to adjust what we consume.</p> <p>Daily exercise, play time, and surround our selves with positive friends and family. &nbsp;People with a negative spirit can and often do drag us down. &nbsp;Exercise is a good diversion from day to day toil, and a good spiritual posture again helps to divert our stresses. &nbsp;Stress eating leads to obesity, ans as this article has laid out being overweight, or obese destroy our health. &nbsp;</p> <img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=191765" width="1" height="1">