What Drives Your Overeating

Why do I overeat?

Do you struggle with overeating, including emotional eating, binge eating, grazing, or eating when you know you are not hungry?

In working with overeating for over a decade, we’ve identified four primary drivers of emotion-driven eating.

Take the Quiz

Take The Quiz

Knowing your main driver of emotional eating empowers you to be in charge.

Take this emotional eating quiz and find out what drives your overeating and what you can do about it.

This overeating quiz will help you understand why you overeat and provide you with some strategies for overcoming overeating and emotional eating.

It’s More Than Food

Keep in mind that our relationship with food is much more complex than can be listed in the context of this quiz. Each person’s psychology and biology are unique. But understanding the psychology behind why you overeat is a great place to start.

What you learn from taking this quiz and digging in deeper will ultimately help you not just in your relationship with food, but overall in creating a more satisfying life.

Instructions: You may identify with several options, pick the one that is most frequent or describes where you are right now.

NOTE: This is not a diagnosis.

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If you’ve tried dieting, but find that you keep returning to old patterns, it’s a sign that something else is “driving” your behavior. This is the psychology of overeating.

There are a number of psychological and biological factors that contribute to overeating and they’re different for everyone. When these factors go unaddressed, diets are doomed to fail.

It Doesn’t Need To Control You

We all overeat and eat emotionally from time to time. Challenges arise when food becomes the go-to source for our non-food needs. Over-relying on one coping strategy gets us out of balance. Uncovering what it is that is actually driving our behavior is the first clue to making positive and meaningful changes.

Keep in mind that our relationship with food is much more complex than can be listed in the context of this quiz. Each person’s psychology and biology is unique. But understanding the psychology behind why you overeat is a great place to start.