emotional eating

kathilynne3410

i am a terrible emotional eater and i am diabetic so i already have two strikes against me. plus i have a habit of of over eating and then restricting my food intake so make that three strikes against me... it's called a non specified eating disorder which i am working with a e.d. therapist on. but my bigger problem is the emotional eating. how do i stop? plus i have no motivation for exercise which i know i need to do...

skymningen

Sometimes sweat is a form of tears. I used to hate exercise, but sometimes when I was emotional and got myself sweaty it still helped. It was an outlet. I could go for a run and mentally stampede over my problems, I could do a workout and sweat out all of my sadness.
So in a way finding motivation for exercise and stopping emotional eating could be the same thing.
Now I go to the gym, and I go after work. I feel much less of the work related stress when I am home after the gym compared to days I go home directly from work. I am still hungry after the gym, but interestingly, while I feel more ravenous when i start eating I do get full fast, so I usually keep half of my portion (that my ravenous self prepared) for lunch the next day.

kommodevaran

The only strike against you is misinformation, that has had a negative impact on your attitude - including your confidence. You are not terrible. We all eat in response to emotions. You can change your eating habits. It's the restricting of food intake that drives the overeating, not the other way around. If you are working with a terapist for your problems with food, why do you just work on select parts? "Knowing you need to do" something can be paralyzing, and you'll want to rebel, maybe even despite you actually want to do it. Who says you have to exercise? What is exercise to you? Finding a sport you enjoy can make this problem go away. And just nomal day activity can be enough, if good health, and not athletic performance, is your goal.

TimothyFish

There is a saying, "My bicycle is my therapist." Of course it is no substitute for those with mental health issues getting the help they need, but there is still a lot of truth to it. I find that time on a bicycle is time sorting through the problems I'm facing. I've never experienced emotional eating after a long bicycle ride.