Disinhibited eating

Lack of ability to inhibit eating is named as disinhibition of eating control or disinhibited eating. Disinhibited eating occurs when an individual is unable to control intake and overeats in response to internal (e.g., emotional stressors) or external (e.g., presence of palatable foods) cues despite his or her intentions not to do so. 

Eating  in response to environmental triggers also existing in disinhibited eating.

However, disinhibited eating also includes social or emotional eating. 

Disinhibition has been repositioned as a psychobiological tendency towards

‘opportunistic eating’. More recently, a high restrained/high disinhibited subtype has been identified as a more reliable risk factor for food consumption after negative affect than restrained eating alone. 

Attitude is an important concept in disinhibited eating field. Attitudes affect opinion of an individual positively or negatively about a certain food. İmplicit attitudes and explicit attitudes are two broad categories of attitudes. Implicit attitudes tend to be automatic in nature, such that individuals are often not consciously aware of them and are hypothesized to form due to associative reasoning. Explicit attitudes are more deliberative in nature and are typically within conscious awareness; they are believed to form through logical processes. This grouping of attitudes is a hallmark of the dualprocess model. 

According to the dual-process model, not only one attitude direct eating behaviour at all situations. Both of them regard towards a food. However, dominant of them direct food choice. For example, someone could have a positive implicit attitude towards chocolate (driven by associations to its immediate hedonic properties) while simultaneously reporting, through explicit attitudes, a lesser liking towards chocolate (driven by associations to its unhealthy attributes). Implicit and explicit attitudes towards food often differ and that, under varying circumstances, one type of attitude tends to be more predictive of eating behavior than the other. When individuals have high cognitive capacity, meaning when there is no distraction or other stimuli to attend to, explicit attitudes are more predictive of food choice. Conversely, when individuals have low cognitive capacity, implicit attitudes will predict food choice. Emotional situations (e.g. after watching an upsetting film) and low inhibitory control (e.g, selfcontrol resources have been depleted, high levels of impulsivity)  also cause implicit attitudes to predict food choice.