Doesn’t it feel so sinfully good when you dig into a bag of your favorite guilty-pleasure “treats” after a long, stressful day?

If you’re like my close-friend Jennifer, that answer is probably a big, whopping YES.

Jennifer hated how her diet was going…

She would eat well most of the day at her stressful job…

A small, healthy breakfast like a fruit smoothie with a scoop of protein…

A nice salad or maybe broiled salmon with grilled asparagus…

And maybe a handful of almonds in the afternoon.

But by the time dinner rolled around, her willpower vanished into thin air.

It was like something hijacked her mind…

FORCING her to eat.

Now that her guard was down in the comfort of her own home, she could finally eat her stress and anxiety away.

Worse is that once she started…

She often couldn’t stop…

Even if she was full.

Deep down she KNEW she needed to stop eating like this… but she couldn’t control herself…

So many times she would put her bag of chips or cookies away, patting herself on the back for a job well done…

Just to dig right back into it a few minutes later when no one was looking.

Many times this went on until she physically couldn’t eat anymore.

Sometimes she ate so much she would feel nauseous…

But that wasn’t even the worst part…

The worst part was the guilt…

The guilt of ruining her diet again…

The guilt of feeling like she was out of control…

The guilt of trying to hide her secret eating from her husband because she was too embarrassed to admit her problem…

And if you feel like Jennifer, you’re not alone…

Because over the past 11 years or so I’ve worked with hundreds of thousands of people…

And unfortunately Jennifer’s story is not unique.

She’s a classic “emotional eater”.