Burn Fat Fast By Stoping Stress Eating, Breaking the Cycle: Overcoming Stress Eating and Weight Gain The beginning of your journey to breaking the cycle of emotional eating and weight gain. In this chapter, we will dive deep into the roots of emotional eating and explore why it is such a common coping mechanism for many of us. By understanding the triggers and patterns behind emotional eating, you will be better equipped to overcome this obstacle and create lasting change in your relationship with food. Emotional eating is often a response to stress, anxiety, sadness, or other difficult emotions. Instead of dealing with these feelings directly, we turn to food as a way to numb or distract ourselves from the discomfort. This coping mechanism can quickly spiral out of control, leading to weight gain and a cycle of guilt and shame that only perpetuates the problem.