Emotional Eating....

[RainaSkye]

Ok so in the last 5 years I have gained 95lbs......I have lost about 15lbs.....however I just recently realized that I emotionally eat......And now I can't tell when I'm eating because I"m hungry, or because I need to for my low blood sugar, or if my anxiety is high and I just eat....

I feel quite aweful about this....it feels really disgusting......I want to lose weight just to be healthier.....and I dont want to emotionally eat well....I hope the reasons are obvious....but i dont know how to stop....

I'm so sad, and so lost.....

[Ruthk34]

I am right there with you. I eat when I am stressed or sometimes just because I am bored which is not good. To make things worse it seems all I think about is when is the next time to eat something. I do this even when I am not really hungry. It is a struggle that is very hard to overcome and I have to fight it every day. What I try to do is when I reach for something to eat I ask myself "am I really hungry?" or is there another reason. Then if I realise that I wont wast away if I don't eat it I put it back.


God Bless

[dema]

I know this won't help everybody - because the lower calorie food frequently expires more quickly and costs more in the first place - but if you are able to have better choices around it helps. You can still get the old fashioned popcorn that is much cheaper than the microwave popcorn and learn how to pop that. Pretzels are better than potato chips. Grapes are better than candy. Dark chocolate and even regular chocolate in the Halloween sizes can help with that. Telling yourself to eat it slower. Making yourself only take one and put the bag away - so for every piece you have to get up, walk into the other room, get out the bag and get the next piece can help.

I joke about my marshmallow cream - but I switched from Birthday cake. When I started the divorce I would eat a small birthday cake at a sitting. Marshmallow cream has fewer calories and is cheaper. And it does the trick.

I also exercise and eat Nutrisystem. So, Maybe I have a diet lunch followed by marshmallow cream.

And something that helped me a lot - it ALWAYS still matters. Even if you have had 100 candy bars, the 101st still matters. I try to put back at least part of the jar of marshmallow cream.

Oh, and weigh if you can every single day. It is amazing what will power you can find after seeing the scale.


And I exercise. Exercise is great stress release. It is easier at a gym - but I have about 80 exercise tapes and I have done some of them probably 100 times. Definitely very many times. (And some I got on Ebay and they are just dumb - didn't finish them once. But it was a big box.)

My weight this morning was 1.5 lbs higher than what it was a year and a half ago - and I've been at the other weight within the last month. And I imagine I will be again soon.

And marshmallow cream isn't my only stress eating. Just the silliest.

It always still matters. Instead of having a whole bowl of potato chips, have half a bowl. Whatever it is - if you can put 2 back, do. It matters.