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emotional eating
I'm looking for tips on how to stop my emotional eating. Acknowledging it is the first step, right? Ugh. I've just been super stressed about job hunting and money. Oh and my dad is really getting on my nerves, which is like an every day thing. I'm not working out anymore either. I feel like a slob. I've gained about 8 lbs. Which doesn't seem like a lot to some, but when you're fighting your butt off to lose weight gaining some back is a blow.
So I think my first step would be working out, stress reliever and all that, then maybe the eating properly will follow? So now how do I get motivated enough to do that?
Anyone else struggling with food/exercise lately?
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Re: emotional eating
Sweet Lord I am right there with you. I eat my stress. I'm home all day and I'm depressed that I'm home all day, so I just eat. Or I'll get bored and go get fast food at lunch. We didn't renew our gym membership when I lost my job and I've been walking at the track at the park, but it does nothing to the amount of food I've been consuming. D'OH!!!!!!!
My mom loses her appetite when she's stressed. This was not a gene I inherited.
That's basically what I'm doing. Being home is driving me insane. I've got to try and turn that around, boredom and stress to exercise. I don't think I'd feel so bad about my eating if I was at least working out.
Try drinking water or chewing gum when you get a craving? I'm guessing here, as I also gained the don't-eat-when-stressed gene, so I'm actually fighting a lack of food headache right now. No idea why I'm stressing, either.
I took up embroidery a few years ago to help give me something to do, but since Lola (cat) loves string, I can't do it as often. I'm afraid she'll take off with the needle end of the string if I'm not watching, and that would just be bad.
grrr stupid nest messing up.
I haven't been on in a few days and just got on to write about this very topic and then I saw your post. I am very much an emotional eater. Life hasn't been so kind to me lately and as I was driving to work this morning upset about some stuff, I so badly wanted to stop at McDonalds to get a sausage burrito or egg mcmuffin because I knew it would make me feel better. I didn't let myself and instead will eat a yogurt I packed, but grrrrr. I never realized I was an emotional eater until a couple years ago.
So basically, I am no help, but you definitely aren't alone with this one.
I never realized I was an emotional eater either. I don't know what made me recognize it I think it was just me eating one day realizing I wasn't really even hungry...it was just a way to take my mind off of things.
Good job Xan at skipping the McDonalds. I know how hard that can be.
Kind of in other news I weighed myself today and lost 1 lb! I know not much, but it's the first time in months that the scale went down!
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I am an emotional eater as well.
Similar to Becca - I just can't keep that stuff in my house. I have no discipline and most of the time I'm not even aware I'm doing it until after te fact, so I've found that if I have watermelon and blueberries and granola in there, I can't feel too bad afterwards.
But, like this weekend for example, I was cranky/bored and the food was all around so I ate. I managed to gain 3 pounds over 4 days. I ate ice cream twice, doritos, sour cream and onion chips, I had burgers on rolls, hoagie, sicilian pizza... it was a mess. I enjoyed every single bite of it, but now I'm paying the price.