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    What triggers you to want to eat?

    Posts: 387 Member
    edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
    If I am exhausted having spent hours picking up and cleaning and then my family members come in and leave items, food crumbs, pots, glasses, dishes, clothing, coats, backpacks, mail, newspapers, gym bags, sport equipment and such, all within an hour or two of coming home... like I'm their live-in help. That often acts as a trigger for me.

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      Oxygen!
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      For me it's days when I'm home alone with nothing to do but watch the DVR. It puts me in a bummed out mood and I will tend to go to the cabinets. Sometimes I wonder if I don't even know how to relax or something, haha.

      (I'm sorry about your family! That is really frustrating...)
    • Posts: 1,531 Member
      Most of the time, boredom.
    • Posts: 928
      Other people eating or smelling really good food that I really shouldn't have.
    • Posts: 847 Member
      my TOM or when I am cooking and hungry I ALWAYS want to sneak some bites in.
    • Posts: 87 Member
      Being awake
    • Posts: 75 Member
      PMS, Boredom, watching too much Food Network.
    • Posts: 391 Member
      Watching my stick skinny younger brother mindlessly indulge all the foods I crave, but strain from eating. Definitely a trigger.
    • Posts: 562 Member
      When I'm upset or bored.
    • Posts: 291 Member
      Watching t.v.!!
    • Posts: 983 Member
      Smart-*kitten* answer: Hunger!
    • Posts: 138
      Most of the time, boredom.

      What he said.....fighting the urge as we speak....but the results I got today are making me say no:)
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      If I am exhausted having spent hours picking up and cleaning and then my family members come in and leave items, food crumbs, pots, glasses, dishes, clothing, coats, backpacks, mail, newspapers, gym bags, sport equipment and such, all within an hour or two of coming home... like I'm their live-in help. That often acts as a trigger for me.



      ~~~THIS~~
    • Posts: 138
      PMS, Boredom, watching too much Food Network.

      Stupid Food Network!
    • Posts: 94
      The time between 6 and 9 pm, TV and snacks. I leave calories because I know I'll snack.
    • Posts: 610 Member
      Stress and really bad days where my students just can't chill! When I have to get "mean" it makes me hungry LOL
    • Posts: 433 Member
      Like any addiction, triggers usually occur in any heightened state of emotion - I was addicted to food and would associate eating with feelings of intense happiness, sadness, loneliness or even excitement. It was intense emotion that triggered my sense of wanting to eat.

      By recognising this I learnt to disassociate food with my emotions and channel it to what its actual purpose is - to bloody live!
    • Posts: 572 Member
      boredom, stress, cold weather
    • Posts: 1,290 Member
      Smart-*kitten* answer: Hunger!

      hehehe....

      But besides that, I've learned that diet soda, the smell of deep fried food, complete boredom, and alcohol. Of course, too much alcohol creates the hangover that demands the deep fried food and diet coke to get over it.
    • Posts: 79
      cold weather bordom being tired stressed... lol all of the above.
    • Posts: 440 Member
      Stresssssssssssssss and more stressssssssssssss with an ingredient call depression
    • Posts: 872 Member
      The evening time......could go all day without eating but when it's evening, I don't want to stop!!
    • Posts: 40
      TOM, boredom, stress, cooking, sadness. :0 Food Network is a huge trigger, I must say.
    • Posts: 160 Member
      boredom is my big trigger. I sit at a desk all day and stare at a computer and unless I'm busy every second, my mind tends to wander towards food :(
    • Posts: 1
      If it is junk food you are talking about, then just having it in the house can trigger a reaction. Don't have junk food in the house. Have what you need, not what you want.
    • Posts: 184 Member
      It seams like Bordem is the trigger for most of the percentage. It's for me as well. It's when I am home and I don't have anything to do is when it hits. The days that everything is clean and we have done all of the shopping the days before.
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      my EX husband!! ugh he stresses me out
    • Posts: 28
      my EX husband!! ugh he stresses me out
    • Posts: 1,111 Member
      I never thought of myself as an emotional eater, but now that I am paying such close attention to what goes in I realize I am.

      Stress and depression are the worst emotions-- they usually cause me to eat a lot. Heartbreak actually makes me feel not hungry. I also get upset stomach when I am really stressed, so I guess it works either way. I either pig out or eat nothing.
    • Posts: 73 Member
      I've discovered, just this week, that I cannot sit in the break room at work if my co-workers are eating something that smells really good or any kind of sweets. It's just too much. My husband is also a late night snacker- I have to literally leave the room.
      Also tom. Or stress.
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