Curbing Stress Eating

Jbledsoe42

I stress eat and when I do I usually go for my husband's chips.

Does anyone have any tips on not breaking your diet with stress eating? Raw veggies just don't seem to cut the stress eating cravings...

mamafoofer

I usually pull out every trick in the book: raw veggies, drink water, exercise, go for a walk, distract yourself, wait 10 minutes to see if the craving passes, chew gum, suck on hard candy, even look up how many calories whatever I crave is so that maybe it will deter me...you name it. Most of the time one or a combination of things works...however...some days of the month none of these things help and the beast will not go away until it gets what it wants! I try not to over do it and compensate with exercise, but sometimes things just get out of hand (as in last weeknd and several donuts...it was a massacre:frown: .