Understanding Emotional Eating
This worksheet helps grade 9 students understand emotional eating, its causes, and strategies for managing it.
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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 is designed to help you understand emotional eating and develop strategies for healthy coping.
1. Which of the following is most likely a sign of emotional eating?
Eating when your stomach growls
Eating a meal because it's dinnertime
Eating to cope with stress or boredom
Eating after a strenuous workout
2. Which emotion is LEAST likely to trigger emotional eating?
Sadness
Joy
Stress
Boredom
3. Emotional eating is often triggered by rather than physical hunger.
4. Developing healthy coping mechanisms can help prevent .
5. Eating when you are truly hungry is considered emotional eating.
True
False
6. Mindfulness can be a useful tool for recognizing the difference between physical and emotional hunger.
True
False
7. Describe two healthy alternatives to using food as a coping mechanism for stress.
8. Explain how journaling can help individuals identify patterns of emotional eating.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
9. Emotional eating is eating in response to your , not hunger.
10. Practicing can help you become more aware of your hunger cues.