Kummerspeck
Etymology
German, literally "grief bacon," from "Kummer" (grief, sorrow) and "Speck" (bacon, fat). The bleakly funny compound captures the padding accumulated while eating one’s feelings.
noun · /KOOM-er-shpek/
The excess weight gained from emotional overeating during a period of sadness or stress.
What it names
It ties a physical result directly to its emotional cause in one wry word, naming comfort-eating and its aftermath together.
Example
Three months after the breakup he ruefully blamed his jeans on kummerspeck.
Related idea
English has comfort food for the cause but no single word for the consequence; kummerspeck names precisely the weight left behind once the comfort has been eaten.