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BrandyGarrin
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First I'd like to say Hello. I am Brandy from Georgia. 44 years old, married, and mother of 1 grown daughter. I am currently disabled but working towards starting up a small home business soon. My weight loss goals are to lose at least 80 pounds but am having a difficult time with this. Emotional earing has played a heavy part in my weight gain and has brought along some very unhealthy lifestyle choices with it. I'm here in hopes of receiving some help with this issue, starting new habits, and finding the support and encouragement I need on this journey.
1.How hard is if for you to see emotional eating in your life? Is it very visible? If so, describe the instances you've got in mind. Do you think instances like this are the main obstacle to your weight loss? It is not hard to see emotional eating in my life, as it makes itself very visible and known. Whenever I feel lonely or sad or even a little downtrodden or depressed, I quickly turn to food to temporarily feel that void or emptiness inside of me. It's kind of like inviting in an old friend while doing it but leaves you feeling worse about yourself after the fact. I think that these instances play a heavy hand in the direction that my weight loss is going, or not going in my case.
2. Do you have trouble differentiating between emotional hunger and physical hunger? Describe a time when you may have mistaken emotional hunger for physical hunger. What was happening at the time to make you emotionally hungry? Why didn't you deal with it directly instead of using food? I have a hard time in telling the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger. A few weeks ago I ended up binge eating at least 10 packets of Fun Dip candy all in a single day and even topped that with eating some fairly large quantity and heavy meals throughout the day, which in turn left me feeling overly stuffed and full to the point of becoming nauseous as well as feeling regretful and remorseful for having done that to myself. I promised myself it would be the last time, as always. I think that at the time, I was very lonely and needed something to try to help me feel that void inside myself. I had tried on numerous occasions to spend more quality time with my spouse and engage him in more conversation with me but it always felt so forced and stilted, especially if he's watching his shows and doesn't want to be bothered. Plus he never really seems to hear me even when I do get to talk to him. So, in the end it was food I turned to help make me feel not so lonely and empty inside. During the eating, I get a euphoric sense of wholeness and contentment at the time, like a temporary band band to cover up the true problem.
3. Examine your hunger whenever it rises. Try to use the six distinctions. Do you feel emotionally hungry more often than physically hungry? Do you always give into your emotional hunger or do you sometimes find another way to satisfy it without food? I will have to admit that I always tend to give in to my emotional hunger because, at the time, it just seems so much easier, plus those hunger pangs are so intense that it seems like the only answer at that moment. Plus, I always know that by eating I'm doing something else other than just sitting alone and not having to acknowledge what's really going on. It's like if I eat this then the problem will magically disappear but it never does in the end. Instead I've just amplified the problem and make it grow in its intensity. I just don't know how to help myself breaking this habit and what other ways I can use instead of feeling like food is my only friend. It's made me miserable over the years and I beat myself up over it everything I cave in to it. I really need help with this. It's not going to allow me to reach my weight loss goals as long as it's staying vigil in my life.
1.How hard is if for you to see emotional eating in your life? Is it very visible? If so, describe the instances you've got in mind. Do you think instances like this are the main obstacle to your weight loss? It is not hard to see emotional eating in my life, as it makes itself very visible and known. Whenever I feel lonely or sad or even a little downtrodden or depressed, I quickly turn to food to temporarily feel that void or emptiness inside of me. It's kind of like inviting in an old friend while doing it but leaves you feeling worse about yourself after the fact. I think that these instances play a heavy hand in the direction that my weight loss is going, or not going in my case.
2. Do you have trouble differentiating between emotional hunger and physical hunger? Describe a time when you may have mistaken emotional hunger for physical hunger. What was happening at the time to make you emotionally hungry? Why didn't you deal with it directly instead of using food? I have a hard time in telling the difference between emotional hunger and physical hunger. A few weeks ago I ended up binge eating at least 10 packets of Fun Dip candy all in a single day and even topped that with eating some fairly large quantity and heavy meals throughout the day, which in turn left me feeling overly stuffed and full to the point of becoming nauseous as well as feeling regretful and remorseful for having done that to myself. I promised myself it would be the last time, as always. I think that at the time, I was very lonely and needed something to try to help me feel that void inside myself. I had tried on numerous occasions to spend more quality time with my spouse and engage him in more conversation with me but it always felt so forced and stilted, especially if he's watching his shows and doesn't want to be bothered. Plus he never really seems to hear me even when I do get to talk to him. So, in the end it was food I turned to help make me feel not so lonely and empty inside. During the eating, I get a euphoric sense of wholeness and contentment at the time, like a temporary band band to cover up the true problem.
3. Examine your hunger whenever it rises. Try to use the six distinctions. Do you feel emotionally hungry more often than physically hungry? Do you always give into your emotional hunger or do you sometimes find another way to satisfy it without food? I will have to admit that I always tend to give in to my emotional hunger because, at the time, it just seems so much easier, plus those hunger pangs are so intense that it seems like the only answer at that moment. Plus, I always know that by eating I'm doing something else other than just sitting alone and not having to acknowledge what's really going on. It's like if I eat this then the problem will magically disappear but it never does in the end. Instead I've just amplified the problem and make it grow in its intensity. I just don't know how to help myself breaking this habit and what other ways I can use instead of feeling like food is my only friend. It's made me miserable over the years and I beat myself up over it everything I cave in to it. I really need help with this. It's not going to allow me to reach my weight loss goals as long as it's staying vigil in my life.
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