Understanding Emotional Eating
A worksheet for 6th graders to understand emotional eating, identify triggers, and develop healthier coping mechanisms.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand emotional eating and how to manage it.
Emotional eating is when you eat in response to your feelings, rather than physical hunger. Many things can trigger emotional eating, like stress, boredom, sadness, or even happiness. It's important to learn how to tell the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger.
1. Which of the following is a common trigger for emotional eating?
Feeling thirsty
Boredom
Having an empty stomach
Needing energy for an activity
2. Emotional eating is always a sign of true physical hunger.
True
False
3. When you eat because you are feeling or , it is called emotional eating.
4. List two healthy ways to cope with stress or boredom instead of eating.
This diagram shows a common cycle of emotional eating:
5. Look at the 'Emotional Eating Cycle' diagram above. Describe how you could break this cycle if you found yourself in it. What steps would you take?
Use the words in the bank to complete the sentences below.
6. When your stomach growls, it's a sign of hunger.
7. Eating because of your , like stress or sadness, is called eating.