Do you ever find yourself wandering to the fridge every five minutes, opening it, closing it… then going back again?
Sometimes there’s nothing even appealing in there, but you still check, just in case there’s some kind of secret snack treasure you missed.
Stress eating isn’t random. It’s a learned behaviour, something many of us picked up years ago and carried into adulthood because no one ever taught us healthier ways to regulate our emotions. We don’t learn emotional regulation in school, so food becomes the quickest, most familiar comfort.
