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Tip Sheet: Navigating Emotional Eating with Diabetes

Posted by Gretchen Holmes, PhD

A hand holds a diabetes education flyer titled Navigating Emotional Eating with Diabetes. The flyer features tips on managing emotional hunger for heart health and diabetes, plus contact info for DiabetesSisters at the bottom.

An infographic on a smartphone screen titled Navigating Emotional Eating with Diabetes by DiabetesSisters, offering tips and strategies to manage emotional hunger, healthy eating, and heart health for those living with diabetes. Blue, pink, and white colors used.

Last reviewed: February 2026

What This Handout Covers

Emotional eating happens when we eat in response to feelings rather than physical hunger. For women living with diabetes, this can feel especially frustrating when it impacts blood glucose patterns.

This compassionate, easy-to-read guide offers gentle strategies to help you pause, reflect, and respond to emotional hunger with awareness — not judgment.

You are not failing. You are learning.

Key Takeaways You’ll Learn

Understand emotional vs. physical hunger
Pause and check in before eating
Identify emotional triggers and patterns
Clarify your personal values
Set realistic, compassionate expectations
Choose one small step to begin today

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TAGS all types Healthy Coping Healthy Eating

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GretchenHolmes

Gretchen Holmes, PhD Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and DIO at Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

A hand holds a diabetes education flyer titled Navigating Emotional Eating with Diabetes. The flyer features tips on managing emotional hunger for heart health and diabetes, plus contact info for DiabetesSisters at the bottom.