Do you hide how much food you actually eat? Below I outline some food-hiding behaviors. Do these sound familiar?

1. Do you hide how much food you actually
eat?

2. Do you hide how much food you
actually eat? Below I outline some
food-hiding behaviors. Do these
sound familiar?

3. Scenario #1

4. At the grocery store, in the checkout
line, you impulsively pick some candy
to eat on the way home. When you
finish the yummy food, you stop on
the way home to throw away the
wrappers?

5. Scenario #2

6. You go to a drive-thru restaurant to get food
for everyone in your family at home. When
ordering, you add food to the family order so
you can eat the extra food on the way home
like an “appetizer” before you eat the food
you actually ordered. Finally, you hide the
wrappers so no one knows.

7. Scenario #3

8. You have a birthday party at your
house which includes a yummy cake
and/or ice cream to celebrate.
However, you cannot wait for
everyone to leave so that you can go
back for more cake and/or ice cream?

9. Here is an article with more great
examples of hiding and eating. Only
read the examples at the top of the
post. The rest of the post is garbage
and I strongly disagree with the
author’s explanation of why we hide
and eat.

10. Hiding food is a symptom, not a root
cause

11. If you are a binge eater, you are
simply trying to hide your always-on
hunger drive. You are avoiding being
socially embarrassed if those around
you knew how much you eat.

12. As a binge eater, you look for
opportunities to be alone with food so
you can satisfy your animal brain’s hunger
drive without being embarrassed. See
why you binge eat for more information

13. The good news is that you don’t have
to do anything specific to fix hiding
food. Once you learn how to stop
binge eating, this problem goes away
on its own.

14. Do you have any other scenarios
where you have hidden food? I would
love to hear about them in the
comments below.