Stop emotional eating

I need to view my hunger as a friend, helping me get to where I want to be. I enjoy my meals more when I sit down to eat hungry instead of already sated. I think because my physical hunger is so easily quieted – with a few crackers or another snack – I feel like it’s one need I can always meet, one that doesn’t underscore my recent inability to provide for myself. Maybe understanding this will help me shed those 15 pounds.

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-Sophie

Therefore I associate my current job with chocolate covered almonds.
Maybe I wouldn’t eat them so much if there wasn’t a 25¢ dispenser of them in the lunchroom?
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad by not brining money, if I didn’t know a certain co-worker who is away for the summer that has an unlocked desk full of change that I could borrow from?
I don’t know, but I’ve already eaten about $1.50 worth of chocolate covered almonds today and it’s only noon.

need to celebrate with Tim Tams because I believe I’ve done well in my exam. Nor do I have to have icecream because I’ve had a shocker of a day. And I REALLY don’t have to eat the same kind of things because I’m bored.

Yes I am addicted to sugar. I use it like a drug since don’t drink much or smoke :-) and something has to blunt reality for me?! or does it? All my things to do are interconnected, since I am also trying to stop feeling ugly all the time, which is a motivating factor for guzzling sugar. Sugar is emotional opium. Bread and butter is a close second!

I think I’m finally starting to get back on track a bit. I’m not feeling as much like I want to eat all the time anymore. I went running yesterday morning and I think that helped a lot, and even though I went running AND boxing a few days before and still went overboard the next day, I feel that this time I’ll be good. Another thing that I think helped was last night I went to a protein workshop and it was very informative. I learned how much protein I really need to have in my diet (for me, 75 grams most days, more if I am more active) and we talked about other sort of dietary needs. Even though I had been researching on my own it was good to have someone actually in front of me talking about it and being able to ask questions. It was a real eye opener.
I walked by our lunch room at work today and someone had brought in fudge. This was after I ate my lunch already mind you, so yes, I so did take a piece, BUT when I took it back to my desk I didn’t want to eat it because I still felt full from lunch so I brought it back to my lunch bag in the fridge and I’m saving it for later. Yay!
Anyway, I guess I’ll have to wait and see where it goes from here.

have been disgusting for this. I’m full but I can’t stop eating. I don’t understand it. I need to get back on track!! I was doing really well for eating healthy and eating fair portion sizes but I just don’t understand how this whole past week (except one day where I ran and went boxing) I have just been eating like crazy. I suppose the exercise helps me not eat more than I should but there’s definitely something else that’s making me do it and I want to stop!

I don’t know how it’s happened, but I’ve improved so much with this. I’m not putting it as ‘done’, cos I still do it a little sometimes. But something ‘clicked’ a few months ago, and things are much better. It’s like my brain realised that emotional eating just wasn’t going to help me. It’s been good to try and treat myself in other ways instead, like snuggling up under a duvet to read an easy book, giving myself time out. I’ve also found it helpful talking to my man when I feel stressed, and being open with him about emotional eating. I was ashamed of it before and tried to hide it. So, good luck to all the others working on this. I used to give myself such a hard time over this habit. Cutting myself some slack really helped.

I am truly an emotional eater- whether I am happy or sad or stressed. When I’m excited and want to celebrate, I think of food- usually something chocolatey- like cake or mousse or FUDGE. When i have a bad day, that’s what I go to for comfort. I am slowly figuring out ways to change this. First off, I remind myself that it isn’t healthy and isn’t helping me towards my goal of losing 50 pounds. Then I remind myself of other things that I can do instead. I will get there one day, it may take me a bit though!

Okay, I know I do it- for all emotions- but I have to end the cycle. (See regain self-control)