What are your biggest food triggers and what do you do to avoid them?

Stress and lack of sleep always made me want to reach for food - especially high-fat, high-calorie choices like chocolate and potato chips. Other triggers that I discovered again today are deprivation and giving up control. I've been reading a supposedly non-diet book that I am reviewing for another website. The premise is to snack every hour all day long, eating whatever you like in very small portions.

After losing 36 pounds without dieting, I'm a big advocate of portion control, but this diet with its incessant snacking really did me in. Although I ate all day long, I never felt satisfied and ended up feeling cranky, crampy and bloated. I don't like being told when to eat or what to eat or not to eat.

I think that giving away your control, whether it be to a diet, a co-worker, or anybody/anything causes stress, anger and guilt that results in a lot of unnecessary emotional eating. I am definitely going back to my own way of eating, with no more diets.