Weight Gain Unhealthy weight gain is one of the biggest dangers associated with eating too much. When you take in more calories than you're able to burn, you'll start packing on the pounds. [healthyeating.sfgate.com]

Overeating is the excess food consumed in relation to the energy that an organism expends (or expels via excretion), leading to weight gaining and often obesity. It may be regarded as an eating disorder. [en.wikipedia.org]

Abstract Emotional eating, or eating in response to negative emotions rather than internal hunger cues, has been related to many maladaptive eating patterns that contribute to weight gain and obesity. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Bottom line: post-nuptial weight gain typically results from a pattern of overeating. If you can reverse that you can undo the poundage. [cnn.com]

Eating when we should be sleeping, for example, may increase the risk of weight gain, as the body is more likely to turn nighttime calories into fat rather than burning them off. [healthland.time.com]

A 29-year-old previously healthy female presented with acute onset right upper quadrant pain, abdominal fullness, and nausea. The pain was sudden in onset and began shortly after a dinner party where she consumed larger portions of food. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

If you are a 2 or 3, you can have a little something to tide you over — maybe a small handful of nuts or a piece of fruit. Once you get used to eating only when you are hungry, you'll most likely find that you have been eating WAY too much. 7. [cheeseslave.com]

When the pain of emotional loss is felt, honored, grieved, and seen, new life can emerge. In many ways, the healing process is the grieving process – feeling, honoring, and integrating these emotional losses. [growinghumankindness.com]

I see my son gaining weight and I grieve. I want out... but then I realize that there is no out... only control... and control is harder than being in or out. Read MORE Personal Stories from people living with Compulsive Overeating [something-fishy.org]

Having a negative self-image can also lead to anxiety, sexual and intimacy difficulties and an unnatural preoccupation with food and calories. On the other hand, shedding excess weight can boost self-image and improve overall mental health. [healthyeating.sfgate.com]

[…] with food Preoccupation with body weight Minimized or complete loss of sex drive Psychosocial symptoms: Feelings of guilt and shame Feeling disgusted with oneself Mood swings Depression Effects Effects of compulsive overeating When left untreated, the [carolinaeatingdisorders.com]

Instead of getting into diets and cycles of denial and binging it makes a lot more sense to do the clever thing and portion control foods that we know our body is not very good at dealing with. [darebee.com]

The present study tested an alternative hypothesis stating that high emotional eating scores are indicative of a susceptibility to use negative affect as a confabulated, post-hoc reason to explain overeating. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

By deliberately engaging your senses, you can bring a gentle curiosity to habituated and automatic behaviors that no longer serve you, and open the door of awareness that leads to healthier possibilities and choices. [mindful.org]