Mental Eating

I recently started thinking about how much eating has a lot more do with your mental needs than how hungry you actually are. If you are heart broken you either eat an entire tub of ice cream or you don't eat anything at all. Nervousness is pretty much the same. If you're trying to do a diet and restrict yourself from all your favorite foods you are always ten times more likely to think about them and crave them than if you were allowed to eat them. If you know your food is coming but there is still bread in the bread basket you are more than likely to fill up on it and even if you're full and there is still food in front of you the chances of you letting it go to waste are slim to none. I have experienced all of this but as a girl the place I notice it most is dieting. I recently tried to initiate a summer diet and I have never thought about food more. I know that my friends that take ADD medication aren't hungry at all and its because they're brain is telling them that, they can go a day without eating even if their stomach is growling because they have the mental capacity to. It is amazing to me how much appetite alters based on your emotional needs. It goes both ways though. If a person is too hungry, it can drive them to act and do thing's that aren't in their usual personality. I for one am in terrible mood whenever I am hungry but people that are starved are different to desperate measures such as stealing or even killing for food. It is amazing to me how much the two are interlinked.