Stress eating and your waistline

Special to The PREVIEW

Summer and bathing suit season are just around the corner and that has a lot of us looking in the mirror and wondering how we can make those excess pounds disappear.

While there are a number of reasons for being overweight (sure, you know most of them — poor food choices, excessively large servings, too much snacking, not enough exercise), one that is often overlooked is stress-related eating, one of the major reasons that people overeat.