If I am not hungry, why am I eating?

What a great step toward self-care we would be taking if we could distinguish between hungry eating and non-hungry eating!

Dr. Rick Kausman, in his book, "If not dieting, then what?"  suggests the following reasons for non-hungry eating.  Maybe you could suggest others.

• We might not be giving ourselves enough time to listen to what our body signals might be telling us.
• We might be confusing hunger and thirst
•  We let ourselves get too hungry
• We are not sure when to stop eating
• We are filling up, but not feeling satisfied
• "just in case I get hungry later"
• The clock says it is breakfast/lunch/dinner: meal time eating
• We are not meeting certain needs
• The food tastes great
• We feel tired, bored or lonely
• We are worried we might offend someone if we don't eat
• We eat as a reward
• Our parents told us to eat everything on the plate
• We are bombarded with prompts to eat - advertising, it is everywhere.
• We eat out of habit
• We eat because it is there
• Food brings back nice memories
• We eat too quickly
• We eat to solve a problem, to fill in a gap or put something off.
• Sometimes a combination of these.

Do you have any suggestions..  I, myself, like to cook.