They may stress-eat or turn to cheap fast food if they’re on a tight budget.

That may reduce the desire to stress-eat or provide enough of a confidence boost that you decide to hit the gym.

The very thought of this alarming fact is currently causing me to stress-eat a "hungry size" bag of vending machine pretzels.

“If you convince yourself you’re going to pack on pounds, you’ll give up and binge or stress-eat,” says Heather K. Jones, R.D., coauthor of “What’s Your Diet Type?”