If you find that you’re doing quite a bit of eating when you’re not biologically hungry, then there’s a good chance that you are using food to cope. You may not have deep-seated emotional reasons to eat, but just getting through life’s hassles with some of its irksome tasks and boredom might trigger you to seek food to make it all easier, or you just might not want to feel the sadness that emerges when you need to stop eating because you’ve reached comfortable fullness.
