If you eat when you are not really hungry, the question is - why? The answer is - you eat when you aren't really hungry because you have two stomachs - one real, the other phantom. The hunger in your belly signals you when your system has a biological requirement for food. If that were the only signal of hunger you received, you'd be thin. It's the phantom stomach that causes the problems. The phantom stomach sends out signals demanding food when unruly emotions and unsolved personal agendas start pushing themselves into awareness and you feel compelled to eat, or more accurately, to stuff yourself and shut the feelings up. Phantom hunger has such power that it drives you to almost any lengths to satisfy it. You'll drive to a convenience store in the middle of the night for snacks; you'll steal your child's Halloween candy when she's asleep; you'll sneak and hide food.

What Triggers Your Phantom Hunger?

All emotional eaters have particular issues they want to avoid facing, and when those issues arise, the phantom belly growls with insistent urgency and suddenly you find yourself powerless over the urge to eat.

There are two categories of things that trigger phantom hunger. The first includes situations, places, or events. Perhaps you overeat when you have to attend staff meetings at work or when you go to family functions. For some people, it's funerals or restaurants or sports events. For others, it's a boring day at work.

The second category that triggers phantom hunger includes people. For you, it's probably a specific person - your boss, parent, spouse, or child - who triggers you to overeat. They may trigger you with a glance, a word, or even with their silence, but whatever it is, when you're around them, you tend to overeat.

Basically, phantom hunger is the hunger that's created when a person feels uncomfortable. To learn more about what your specific triggers are, click here and take a free Shrink Yourself session.

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