Understanding Emotional Eating
A worksheet for 7th graders to understand emotional eating, identify triggers, and develop coping strategies for healthier wellness.
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Understanding Emotional Eating
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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 develop healthy coping mechanisms.
Emotional eating is when you use food to make yourself feel better—to satisfy emotional needs, rather than to satisfy physical hunger. You might reach for a pint of ice cream when you're sad, or a bag of chips when you're stressed.
1. In your own words, what is emotional eating?
2. Emotional eating is the same as physical hunger.
True
False
3. Eating because you are bored is an example of emotional eating.
True
False
4. Which of the following is NOT a common trigger for emotional eating?
Stress
Sadness
Hunger (physical)
Boredom
5. Emotional eating often leads to feelings of after eating.
6. A healthy way to cope with stress instead of eating is to or .
7. Describe one healthy coping strategy you can use instead of emotional eating when you feel stressed or sad.