Eat less or more when feeling negative emotions?

StarGeezer

Depends on the emotion for me. Melancholy, sad, depressed... more. Stressed, worried, angry... less.

I've been consciously working on not "self-medicating" with food, and finding other more constructive ways of coping with unpleasant emotions. And I concentrate on the less desirable moods as triggers for me; for some reason, happiness and other much more positive emotions don't elicit a need to abuse food. YMMV.