EEE ***Emotional Eaters Eliminating Club***

My biggest tool against emotional eating is water. If I am really stressed or sad I seem to crave that full feeling, and drinking 9oz of water fills me up. More than that, it hydrates my body, makes me feel like Im doing something healthy for myself, and gives me time to rethink any impulse snack I might want to try. I also keep a Nalgene nearby with lots of inspirational stickers. I also read somewhere on this forum that water is one of the best things you can add to help weight loss.
 
My biggest tool against emotional eating is water. If I am really stressed or sad I seem to crave that full feeling, and drinking 9oz of water fills me up. More than that, it hydrates my body, makes me feel like Im doing something healthy for myself, and gives me time to rethink any impulse snack I might want to try. I also keep a Nalgene nearby with lots of inspirational stickers. I also read somewhere on this forum that water is one of the best things you can add to help weight loss.
 
bglittert1979 said:
Oh me too!! I think that's why all of us are here! I am an emotional and boredom eater.








Im more of a boredom eater- Plus i really cant stock my shelves with food, otherwise ill eat everything in a short time...I have a hard time stoping- if I eat a bag of doritos, it has to be the whole thing. if I have cerial, it has to be several bowls. i love soymilk, but will have a couple glasses.
Quantity is my problem...
This sounds silly, but there is some truth to the saying food can be a substitute for sex- im single, and eat alot more food than i did when i was dating....
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welcome aboard and you can do it you just need to focus more on half of the portion you fix to eat but its hard i know believe me
 
Hello again,I think sometimes it's a chemical imbalnace or something
a little deeper. Example If I really really badly want KFC nothing
else I do or eat will make that get out of my head.This is on
a bad day let me remind you but say you having a major chochlate
attack I don't see an apple or water or carrot sticks ect making
that vision thought craving go away,however I am learning a little
on that as for sweets thats why I have my slimfast and weightwatchers
treats for that and it has helped.
But I haven't completly cured the KFC Fried potatoe kick when it hit's
:rolleyes: Tammy
 
Hey guy!! I love the slim fast peanut butter crunch bars too!! They taste just like butterfingers~!! I sometimes think it is chemical imbalance as well. Sometimes I will crave something and just eat and eat all the good healthy things hoping that I won't want it anymore and when I get to the point that I don't want it anymore, I would have been better off just having it!! LOL!! My best solution is going for walks and drinking water, but I have a child so going for walks is limited for me now.
 
hi guys, i made peace with the fact that emotional eating is THE biggest problem that is keeping me from my weight loss goal...and my idea of how to combat it was to do yoga in order to have a better grip and control on my body. also, i try to find a mental peace when i am there...that i try to carry to my nights--which is where i binge the most!! i am trying to disciplin my mind with yoga and hopefully have that carry through to my eating...another option could be martial arts

but...i have cravings and get mad at myself if i dont eat, this is a cause of major stress, i have the idea that if i say no enough times that eventually i will get used to not following through on my cravings.

one thing i have found useful is that when my mind begins to wander (at any time in the da) about eating unhealthy portions or food, i try to stop myself in mid/beginning thought. if i dont followthrough with the "idea" of unhealthy eating, i won't think about it...hope this helps.
 
re: emotional eating

Big time emotional eater right here.
Whether I'm happy (cause to celebrate, let's go out to eat!) or sad (boohoo, where are my chocolates?) or angry (I need a !?#!%* piece of cake) or nervous (in between gnawing on my nails, a bon-bon) or bored (remote in one hand, ice cream cone in the next), the first thought is to eat, eat, eat. :eek:
Thank God I am slowly overcoming this, though it is the hardest thing I have ever done -- quitting smoking was a walk in the park in comparison!!
 
Hmm this is me!! I am definitely an emotional eater. I get stressed really easy, and to me, there nothing easier than grabbing a chocolate brownie or a bag of chips to curb the stress. It's definitely the "avoidant" side of me. Instead of dealing with stress, I eat it away, procrastinating even more, giving me even more stress as time goes on...I'm going to try to find true substitutes for this like going for a walk, drinking water, or just breathing. I'll post my results here if anything works!
 
One more for the group

I am a highly emotional eater and like most people I learned it from my family. Food was always around either to celebrate (a dinner out for good behavior/grades, whatever) or to mourn. So naturally when I stress I turn to food and of course it can't be healthy stuff, cabs are my BIG thing. But I've found that to me, when I start to eat healthier (not a diet, but eating change) I feel better about myself and I know that when I turn to the bad stuff my body actually feels slugish and down. I try to keep this in mind everytime I reach for the no-no-bad-stuff, sometimes it works and others....well, we are all here for the same reason!
 
Hey there! I am definitely an emotional eater but I agree that it goes a little deeper. It is an addiction for me, I quit smoking and drinking so I told myself “Self go ahead and have that sonic blast and deal meal, it is your ONLY indulgence.” But I couldn’t just stop at one bad meal because since the day was already shot then I should go ahead and gorge at night. And since that ruined the week, I could always start next Monday.

I remember when I started gaining weight, I used it to push people away. I hide behind my weight. It gives me a reason for not being more social.

But I am breaking the cycle!!!! With ya’ll help ofcourse!:D
 
hey everybody, I used to be a huge emotional eater but I'm slowly getting over it, I just try to take some time out and do something for myself if I start to want to binge, I have a bubble bath, go buy a new eyeliner or something small, like a magazine, give my self a manicure, things like that. The need to eat usually goes away after Ive distracted myself and lifted up my spirits at the same time.
 
I am a complete emotional eater and a boredom eater lol... me and my boyfriend broke up over a year ago but i still love him too death and we are good friends but it all still gets to me very easily. if i call and can't get a hold of him what do i do.... EAT.. and when I am bored and can't come up with something to do .. i EAT.... I can be watching tv contently but then a commercial comes up and what do i go do... EAT lmao.. it never fails. I have reached a point where i can't even hardly tell when i'm truly physcially hungry. that's pretty bad :( I need to find something else to do when im sad or bored but what... ive tried the writing in the journal thing but that really doesn't help much... my goal is to replace the emotional eating with emotional exercising lol.. hopefully it'll work. oh and my other problem is when and what to eat... im going to post a new thread about this and get some advice.
 
I'm complete emotional eater...and this side of my character is the worse of myself.

I have a certain I'll be forever a emotional eater...hope I'll be a emotional eater controlled, like i was in 14 years. I really thought, this behaviour doesn't exist anymore, but that was my biggest mistake of my life.

I'll return to my healthy and safety performs...but I'll keep remain my self about my condition of "emotional eater controlled".
 
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I eat all the time. It's something I just picked up on recently actually. Its mostly when I am frustrated, stressed, angry, or bored.

For frustration I have found that I can find something to clean and take my frustration out. It really does help. Only been at it a couple of days though, so we will see.

As for stress, I have been working on trying to pinpoint what is stressing me out. Like that bill that was due last week, but I somehow forgot about it and right this minute I don't have the money for it. Then when I know what is bothering me, I set up a plan. Something like, ok tomorrow is my day off I will go and ask them for an extension until my next payday. Once I have a plan it makes life a little easier. And it helps me to rearrange my priorities so the things that are stressing me out don't happen as often. Not paying that bill because I forgot means I need to be a little more organized so out come the sticky notes to stick around the screen of my laptop reminding me that I have a bill due in a few days. I have been doing this for a while and it seems to work really well for me.

Still haven't found anything for being angry....

And being bored? Forget it. If I know I am bored and that is why I am eating all I can think is, there is nothing else to do, I might as well sit here and continue to eat.

I almost forgot the biggest emotional eating problem ever for me: depression. In the winter time I just can't force myself to get out and do anything, and everything seems like a waste of time, and I don't even want to get out of bed, but I am so emotionally low that I feel empty so I sleep all day and when I am not sleeping, I am, you guessed it, eating. And I have no idea how to take that one on.
 
jweeks22 said:
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I almost forgot the biggest emotional eating problem ever for me: depression. In the winter time I just can't force myself to get out and do anything, and everything seems like a waste of time, and I don't even want to get out of bed, but I am so emotionally low that I feel empty so I sleep all day and when I am not sleeping, I am, you guessed it, eating. And I have no idea how to take that one on.
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Sounds like a symptom of Seasonal Affective Disorder (I think that's what it's called-- S.A.D. is a strangely fitting name for it.) I get that too, when the days get shorter and I get less sun. It's some sort of chemical imbalance. I usually have to get more antidepressants from my doctor, but they also have these full spectrum lights that are supposed to help if you sit under them for a certain amount of time every day (I think they're expensive, but I haven't checked in a while) It really helps to think positively, even if you are sort of down. :)

Annie
 
Annie-

I really should look into that. Thanks. I just figured that it was something wierd, so I haven't been to a doctor about it. But I am going to look into it. ^^
 
This is my first time in the clubs section and this one seemed right for me.

It doesnt matter if I get mad, sad or glad... I want food to go along with the emotions.

I use my emotions as an excuse to splurge...


Especially if I get mad... Ill just say "eff this diet" and go to Oreganos (pizza joint) or RA (sushi joint) and eat my way to comatose. I have been alot better at not doing that as of recent.


SO I would like to join the club.
 
I have to join this group because I'm a BIG emotional eater as well. I eat when I'm sad, angry, happy, etc. Any emotional high I get, I use food to cope with it. Right now I'm trying to make some changes in my life and because of it my world is chaotic. I just want to scarf down a bag of cookies or candy to deal with the stress. I don't know if it's better for me to substitute more heal thy foods for the junk I binge on when I'm stressed, or if I should try to just not eat and do something else to deal with whatever the stress is. I don't know what is easier to maintain.
 
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