Emotional eating is a cause of weight gain that many people battle with. They fight the weight gain with diets and diet pills, which of course do not help because as soon as an emotional problem crops up again, they break the diet, feel guilty, more emotional stress due to guilty feelings and more eating. It is a vicious cycle.
When you try to cure emotional eating by other means such as diet, it is like cutting weeds with a lawnmower and hoping that they will never grow again. Instead they look fine just after being cut, but soon grow back ten times bigger and stronger. Unless you pull the weeds out by the root, they will continue to grow.
Unless you remove the cause of your emotional problems, you will always have the extra stress of weight gain from emotional eating. There is an extremely good course available by Dr. Frank Smoot, which is inexpensive and helps you to remove the weeds by the root and overcome emotional eating. People who describe the results of this course all comment how they lose weight effortlessly and without diet, and that the weight is gone permanently.