The most common reasons a person is constantly hungry include the following: you are dehydrated, you do not get enough sleep, you skip meals, you are always stressed out, you drink too much alcohol, you eat too fast, you do not get enough protein, you eat too many starchy carbohydrates, and you are on certain medications that increase your appetite.

There are two type of people: people who eat to live, and people who live to eat. While living to eat can be fun, it is generally healthier to be the type of person who eats to live. Food gives our bodies the fuel that it needs to maintain energy. While energy is the primary reason us humans eat, many people have adapted to eating for other reasons as well. Another reason people eat include to make themselves feel better emotionally. When a person eats to feed their emotions, this is called emotional eating.

Emotional eating often leads to overeating. When people eat to make themselves feel better emotionally rather than to satisfy their physical hunger, they can have a difficult time controlling how much and how often they eat. Emotional eaters have a hard time telling the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger. When a person is truly hungry, they will feel it in their stomach and also feel less energized. When people are hungry based on emotions, they simply eat to satisfy a feeling, rather than true hunger.

There are three common triggers that cause people to emotionally eat: Stress, boredom, or eating habits. When we feel stressed out, our bodies have an increased level of cortisol. This is the same thing that makes us crave comfort foods. When people feel bored, they often eat because they simply don’t know what else to do. Eating habits are another trigger. Eating becomes a pattern that you become comfortable with. People often don’t think about whether they are actually hungry or not.

Tips to stop eat more mindfully 

·         Eat slowly. Take your time. Eat slowly and be conscious of what and how much you are eating.

·         Drink water before you eat. Drinking a full glass of cold water before you eat or when you are hungry for the wrong reasons can help curb your appetite.

·         Learn to control your cravings. Thinking about how a food you crave tastes only increases your cravings. Cravings stimulate thoughts about how that food tastes, which could even make a person begin to salivate. To fight this, try to think of food cravings as things that you would be uncomfortable with eating.

·         Learn to control your impulses when eating. By learning to control your impulses when eating, you can learn to stop eating for the wrong reasons, and start eating for the right ones.