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Emotional overeating/overeating disorder?

Tropicalfirestorm
Tropicalfirestorm Posts: 61 Member
edited February 6 in Food and Nutrition
So part of the reason I over eat is because when I was 13/14 my mother... got into some bad stuff. I was taken from her. But before than there was a short period of time... I have no idea how long. It could have been simple three weeks or three months.... where my mother stopped buying food.

I survived by eating unheated can food (she didn't pay the bills). Lots of corn. And dry cereal.

Ironically, even though I was eating far less than I ever had before, I gained a huge amount of weight and went from 98lbs to 130lbs. I felt fatter at 130 than I did at any other weight, and when I look at pictures of myself I feel like I look fattest in those 130 pictures. More than I did at 150, 180, or 200.

Anyways, I've never addressed emotional eating. But I suppose I do it. I eat a lot just to fill up time, and it is torturous for me to have food in the house and not be eating it. One of the worst parts of this diet is not eating less, but stopping myself from consuming everything. And not getting that "stuffed" feeling.


does anyone have any links where I can read up on emotional eating or over eating disorders?

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