Emotional eating is often a physiological response to dopamine-triggering ultra-processed foods rather than a personal failure.

“a lot of it is not our fault yeah you actually say that in this book that you say that you know you get into these sort of habits of eating unhealthy things the pulling up at the drive-through and ordering the extra large fries and the Burger on the way home from work and then you feel like crap”

Emotional eating often functions as a maladaptive survival mechanism that needs to be addressed through self-compassion, awareness, and identifying triggers.

“when you're counseling people around breaking up with those habits you're asking them to divorce themselves from what is perhaps their best friend”

Emotional eating is turning to food to soothe yourself when experiencing any emotion, and it is a common behavior rather than a sign that someone is broken.

“So it is simply eating out of any emotion not just sadness not just feeling down it could be anything. It could be boredom. It could be happy. It could be sad, stressed, any emotion. Anger. It is turning to food as a way to soo yourself when you are having an emotion.”