How to control emotional eating?

The first step is identify the eating triggers. Usually, by the time you have identified a pattern, eating in response to emotions or certain situations has become a habit. Now you have to break that habit. Developing alternatives to eating is the second step. When you start to reach for food in response to a trigger, try reading books, go for a walk, listen to music, dance, watch your favorite television show, Talk to a friend, play games, solve puzzles, and things that keep you engage for a while so that you get distracted from the feeling of hunger(emotional eating).

Throw away all the junkies from house and kitchen cupboards and make sure you replace them with fresh fruits, vegetables and healthy snacks like khakra, roasted chana, dry murmura, etc. You are trying to find comfort as a friend in food, so try and find out what are the reasons for dis stress, let out all the pent up emotions out so that you don't suffocate in them.