Are you an emotional eater? look here even...

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if you think you are not because chances are your eating behavior changes with your mood.
Below are some extracts from the Wikipedia article on Mood:
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A mood is an emotional state. Moods differ from emotions in that they are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a particular stimulus or event. Moods generally have either a positive or negative valence. In other words, people typically speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood.
Mood also differs from temperament or personality traits which are even longer lasting. Nevertheless, personality traits such as optimism and neuroticism predispose certain types of moods. Long term disturbances of mood such as depression and bipolar disorder are considered mood disorders. Mood is an internal, subjective state, but it often can be inferred from posture and other behaviors. "We can be sent into a mood by an unexpected event, from the happiness of seeing an old friend to the anger of discovering betrayal by a partner. We may also just fall into a mood."

Like positive moods, negative moods have important implications for human mental and physical wellbeing. Moods are basic psychological states that can occur as a reaction to an event or can surface for no apparent external cause. Since there is no intentional object that causes the negative mood, it has no specific start and stop date. It can last for hours, days, weeks, or longer. Negative moods can manipulate how individuals interpret and translate the world around them, and can also direct their behavior.

People can reduce their negative moods by engaging in any mood-elevating behavior (called Mood repair strategies), such as helping behavior, as it is paired with positive value such as smiles and thank you. Thus negative mood increases helpfulness because helping others can reduce one's own bad feelings.

People in a positive mood are usually easier to talk to and want to have longer conversations compared to someone who is in a negative or neutral mood. Lastly positive mood can help us in situations where heavy thinking and brainstorming is involved. Positive mood has also been proven to show negative effects on cognition as well. According to the article "Positive mood is associated with implicit use of distraction", "There is also evidence that individuals in positive moods show disrupted performance, at least when distracting information is present".[8] The article states that other things in their peripheral views can easily distract people who are in good moods.
The study is basically stating that it would be harder for positive moods to focus on the task at hand. In particular, happy people may be more sensitive to the hedonic consequences of message processing than sad people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mood_(psychology)Feelings - Mood - Accomplished / Proud
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so I'm going to try to record my mood at the time of meal and see if I can recognize a pattern of eating more or carelessly depending on specific moods.
Now, the following entries can be found in the food database I just added them myself. I know some of them may be counter intuitive because if you are heartbroken, sick or stressed you may not log at all but they are there anyway. This is yet another tool, perhaps a very small one, in our journey to learn about ourselves and to try to plan or prepare for when we fall or fail to meet our plans.

Feelings - Mood - Accomplished / Proud
Feelings - Mood - Celebratory / Recognized / Awarded
Feelings - Mood - Giving Up
Feelings - Mood - Happy
Feelings - Mood - Hungry
Feelings - Mood - Insecure / Self-Doubting
Feelings - Mood - Lonely
Feelings - Mood - Rejected / Heartbroken
Feelings - Mood - Sad
Feelings - Mood - Socially Pressured
Feelings - Mood - Stressed
Feelings - Mood - Tired / Sick / Sleepy

Do you think you eat differently when experiencing any of the above feelings? and would you change this list in any way?
Thank you.