One way that many people can handle the emotional eating is to treat it as a classic television crime story.

What do we always hear the cops and the lawyers trying to establish over and over and over again? Motive, Means and Opportunity. If you don't have all three, you don't have a perpetrator.

If you can exert control over just one of those three things, you can avoid the bad bahavior.

What is your motive for emotional eating? Can you identify the factors and either prevent them from occuring or, by just knowing what they are manage to take their power away or channel it elsewhere?

What is the means by which you commit this dastardly crime? Is it by stopping at a store on the way home? If so, then stop carrying cash or checks or credit cards with you to work except on days when you KNOW you actually need them. Is it by using what is in the house? If so, then get it out of the house?

What gives you the opportunity to emotionally eat? Is it because you have long stretches in the evening when you are at home with nothing better to do? If so, then find something better to do. Take classes, volunteer your time, take up a hobby that doesn't lend itself to snacking.

And just because all three are in place, does not mean that you WILL commit the crime. Have plenty of alternative foods always on hand. Women have it a bit easier here because they can stash stuff in their purse!

Best of luck on getting a firm handle on things.

Keep the Faith!