Eating When Bored
Luckie_Rabbit
Posts: 6
I'm entirely aware that I do this. All the time. It's hard to stop though. Anyone else do this, or have any tips on how to knock it off?
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I really had a hard time with that too. I had to literally tell myself "you're not hungry, you're bored" while I was on the way to the fridge/cupboard.0
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I really had a hard time with that too. I had to literally tell myself "you're not hungry, you're bored" while I was on the way to the fridge/cupboard.
Yup, pretty much all you can do.
I'm currently unemployed and bored alllllllllllllll the time. You just have to have will power to tell yourself you aren't actually hungry0 -
trying o drink water instead ...but I got tell ya I love food ...0
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I am doing it right now................put the crackers away0
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I do it all the time! It's brutal! I find chewing gum helps a lot. Drinking water helps a lot! Find something to keep you busy.0
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I tell myself that too, but then I think just how delicious that food in the cupboard is....0
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Well I just ate a 90 cal chocolate fudge posicle and it was amazing!0
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I do it all the time! It's brutal! I find chewing gum helps a lot. Drinking water helps a lot! Find something to keep you busy.
I used to chew gum, but then realized the sugar in it made me hungry not long after.... I think the best thing to do i drink a glass of water and eat a celery stick. Or pick up the phone and call someone,0 -
I eat when I am bored to. It's terrible. I will have a great food day then totally screw it up with bored eating. I fight everyday to stop myself. I'm so tired of it and very much wanting to change (and lose some weight ) that I have changed my schedule. I go to the gym now at my prime munching time. I got through 2 days with success but today my boys have a different school start time so . . . I munched
I'm going to try water and gum next Wednesday to see if that helps.
Hang in there! Keep trying stuff until you find something that works.0 -
I like to have a cup of hot tea before I reach for a snack. It helps to have a variety of flavors. I sweeten it with Splenda.0
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I try and spend some time on MFP. If I'm typing, I don't have a free hand for a packet of crisps :-)0
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I eat a few veggie chips and drink water. I've noticed all I need to keep from boredom-eating is a glass of water to sip.0
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I do it when im at home and not working so I always try and stay out of the house even on my days off i'll go to work which is a cafe but I will have lunch. I just munched before on bread and butter now i feel sick. I drink tea or coffee. not the best thing but i always have a different type of flavour0
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When I first started my journey I would take a bath when bored. I am fortunate to have a hot tub so a soak sometimes. I find it almost impossible to eat doing those two things. Now I simply go for a walk.0
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Juicy Fruit has some awesome dessert gums out. Apple Pie, Strawberry Shortcake, Orange Creamsicle! They taste fairly close to the real deal - think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka's full meal gum.
Whenever I feel "hungry", which is generally twenty to thirty minutes after a healthy meal, I pop in a stick.0 -
When I first started my journey I would take a bath when bored. I am fortunate to have a hot tub so a soak sometimes. I find it almost impossible to eat doing those two things. Now I simply go for a walk.
I would go for a walk, but where I live, the weather is not allowing. Walking my dog is a regular part of my routine, weather permitting.0 -
I do that too. And I bored A LOT at work. So I eat and eat and eat0
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trying o drink water instead ...but I got tell ya I love food ...
Same here. I try to drink a big old glass of water instead and then I'm not so hungry.0 -
Drink tea.
I drank about 14 cups the other day because I couldn't ride because of the rain, school was cancelled because my teacher was sick...I was beyond bored. So...cup after cup after cup. Works for me.
ETA: All my tea is decaffeinated.0 -
I'm definatly a boredom eater. Lately when I want to eat and it isn't mealtime I've been saying to myself "Okay, I'll go get a cup of tea and a muffin but I'll wait 20 minutes". Generally I start doing something else and forget or else I spend the 20 minutes talking myself out of it and don't end up eating. Doesn't always work but does 90% of the time:-)0
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