Eating Habits

MamaOne13

For those of you who dealt with emotional eating/binges, what helped you to stop?

Josephfunk

You need to build good habits and be consistent. Not every meal will be perfect but being consistent with your good habits will make a bad meal feel like a speed bump rather then something to throw you off the road.

tiptoethruthetulips

You need to find something else to help deal with the emotions that drive the emotional eating. For some that will be a therapist/counsellor for others that may be replacing the destructive habits with positive habits eg angry do a boxing class to work out the aggression. Lonely - spend some time with a trusted friend or family member or even volunteering. Bored - volunteering, finding a new active hobby. Stressed - massage, walk, soak in the bath with a good book, meditation, yoga...etc etc

jrzgurl80

Going to therapy and realizing I am emotionally stronger than I thought I was. You too are just as strong!!

springlering62

In retrospect, one of the things that helped me was a handful of sessions with a registered dietician.

Going in with a list of questions, permitting myself to try her suggestions and not treating it like punishment but treating it like a project, educating myself, allowing myself to fail here without quitting there and learning from it.

The more of myself I invested in learning alternative eating habits, the easier it became.

Treating “me” as a project and allowing myself the luxury of working on “Project Me” as opposed to all the other noise in life.