How does unplanned food eating come about for you?

Pretty much the way you describe it above. Except for chocolate which just seems to appear in my hands and I have no recourse but to consume it.

Also, sometimes I eat to keep from having a drink. but many times I end up having the drink afterwards anyway so….

I am on a pretty strict diet and I absolutely hate it when I cannot stick to my plan. Like today I brought my lunch and things got busy here so my lunch got delayed and just when I was about to heat up my lunch, I had to run out to the office supply store to get stuff we ran out of. Now very hungry, I stopped at Subway to get a salad to eat while I drove. Work is my number one reason my eating schedule gets knocked out of whack.

If somebody offers me food, I’ll usually take up the offer, unless I just ate like half an hour ago. I don’t like refusing offers, makes me feel impolite lol.
Otherwise, my eating habits revolve around a rather strict routine, and I don’t like it being disturbed, so I don’t often find myself eating unplanned meals.

I’m on a super-strict DASH diet this week and I’m starving, I magically found a small square of Milky Way dark in my hand. ;)

I am strict about eating about 1400 calories per day and working out Monday-Friday so I can eat whatever the hell I want on weekends. Now, I could eat all day if I let myself. I love food and I certainly don’t have to be hungry to eat. And I can put it away. I’m not overweight, but you’d probably wonder how I manage to stay under 500 lbs with the amount of food I can consume in a day. So, pretty much every meal on Saturday and Sunday is “unplanned,” as I don’t plan my meals on weekends.

I was stressed and before I knew it, there was a cookie in my hand.

I was going through the day and someone mentions there’s leftover food in the conference room — next thing I know, there’s a pastrami on rye in my hand.

People plan to eat? That sounds wonderful!

I’m like a prehistoric hunter-gatherer, foraging for whatever is available whenever I have time. Breakfast this morning was a red-bull and a crumply pop tart that I found in my car.

Sometimes I eat when I’m sleepwalking. What a weirdo.

Boredom usually make me reach for a snack. I always make the decision though, it never just happens. Sometimes I find myself looking for something to eat in my kitchen but it never gets to the point where I don’t realise i’ve started eating something.

I lost weight (54 bs!) for about 12 months and for the last 6 months I have been maintaining my weight. I think I’m just conscious of what I eat.