Emotional Eating is the second biggest cause of obesity worldwide.Emotional Eating can be stopped in a five step formula called A.W.A.R.E. Five Steps That End Emotional Eating Awareness is the starting point of change, because you can't solve a problem if you don't know you have one

Bad Parenting

Parents who regularly punish or dismiss their children's anxieties could be setting their kids up for obesity, warns a new study.
That's because kids who fail to learn how to regulate their negative emotions - a skill that can be fostered by affirmative parenting - are more likely to turn to food for comfort, which can eventually lead to obesity.

That's the overarching conclusion of a University of Illinois study, which found a connection between poor parenting skills, defined in the study as "insecure parents," and a child's propensity for consuming junk food.

The study found that insecure parents were significantly more likely to respond to their children's distress by becoming distressed themselves or dismissing their child's emotion,

Insecure parenting was also related to "comfort feeding," as well as fewer mealtimes and more screentime, all known factors that have been linked to unhealthy eating habits and childhood obesity.

Stress:
Some people don't eat merely to satisfy their hunger but to cope up their stress. When life is full of stress, you could find yourself gaining some weight. Many people tend to eat food high in sugar and fat to get rid of stress while some eat less or skip meals. Do you think that eating at the time of stress fix your emotional problems? Unfortunately it is wrong. Emotional eating cycle make you feel worse.

So what does a real stress response look like in the body?

Cortisol is the stress hormone that prepares the body for fight or flight. Cortisol signals for insulin release, as it prepares the body to do what it needs to survive.
As insulin is a storage hormone, it prepares the body for famine, and begins to store energy for survival. So, the more insulin that is needed and secreted, the more opportunity for energy or fat storage.
As insulin is doing its job and storing the calories from the food you just ate, it's also continuing to ramp-up hunger for present moment needs.
So before you beat yourself up in the name of willpower, keep in mind, there is a metabolic reason as well as a stress response continuing the vicious cycle.

Conditioning :
Many of us grow up in families where food is not food. Food is much more loaded and important than that. In many environments food is the messenger of love. Food is the physical manifestation of love. Food is love.

Particularly when there has been a previous environment of scarcity (for instance growing up with rationing), it creates a situation where food is a currency of more than fuel. Food is precious. Food shows you care. That you put someone else's needs before your own.

And you must never, ever waste food.

This food scarcity mentality can subtly influence us all for generations. If you grew up in a home where this is the unspoken philosophy, then food may come to represent love for you. Saying yes to second helpings = demonstration of love.
Praising the cook = demonstration of love. Bringing a plate = demonstration of love. Which has much to commend as a strategy for caring and co-operation.

It does however make it far more likely that you will carry extra weight. When you believe deep down that food is love you are going to naturally want more of it. You will eat when you are not hungry, when you are lonely or unhappy. You will have seconds even though you are satisfied. Food equals love and who does not want more love in their life, right?