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Eating your feelings: why food feels like a hug

Eating your feelings: why food feels like a hug

Sometimes you eat not because your stomach is hungry, but because you feel sad, bored, or stressed — and a Maggi or a few biscuits feel like a small hug. A normal bad-day snack of one Maggi, five biscuits, and a sweet chai is about 480 kcal, and a few honest steps can soften that without giving up the food you love.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Comfort eating just means you are really hungry.

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Mostly false. Real hunger comes on slowly, and any food fixes it. Comfort eating comes on fast. It wants only one thing, like Maggi or biscuits. It keeps going even when you are full. Doctors call this eating to feel better when you are stressed, angry, scared, bored, or lonely. The food is a hug, not fuel.

Sources: Mayo Clinic - Weight loss: Gain control of emotional eating
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