Emotional eating - how do you deal?

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  • Restybaby2012
    Restybaby2012 Posts: 568 Member
    ........oh and I didnt smoke the cig......I just held it affectionately, even lovingly (I quit about a year ago)
  • llama12345
    llama12345 Posts: 17
    I step on the scale and stare at that number until I feel the urge to eat subside. It seems to help trigger the fact that I'm not really hungry at all and it forces me to remember that eating whatever whenever is how I got into this situation. Then I drink an entire water bottle and eat an apple. I feel a lot better about myself after the whole process so it seems to work for me :)
  • Lalimama
    Lalimama Posts: 19
    ........oh and I didnt smoke the cig......I just held it affectionately, even lovingly (I quit about a year ago)

    I still sneak the odd cig here and there as I have never truly been a proper smoker in the first place. If you see me smoking then you know it's a REALLY bad day!!! LOL

    Wow 70lbs lost is amazing - well done! I can aspire to that and hopefully get there eventually :smile: MFP is really helping me build better habits and seeing the graph dropping all the time is enough to keep me away from comfort-food... for now
  • Lalimama
    Lalimama Posts: 19
    I step on the scale and stare at that number until I feel the urge to eat subside. It seems to help trigger the fact that I'm not really hungry at all and it forces me to remember that eating whatever whenever is how I got into this situation. Then I drink an entire water bottle and eat an apple. I feel a lot better about myself after the whole process so it seems to work for me :)

    Other than being able to weigh myself at work that's do-able and I just bought a bag of apples for work so... YAY! Thanks
  • Paiger
    Paiger Posts: 37 Member
    Fighting the battle too. I recently read, "Made to Crave" by Lysa TerKeurst great book. You can win at this.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    My thing has always been "bad day = McDonalds" but I'd really like to know how other people manage to avoid getting trapped in the food = happiness pit?

    I realized the flaws in "emotional eating" by looking at it logically. Food is a fuel for the body. Do you fill up your car's back seat with gas when it needs an oil change? Using food to combat a ****ty day is no different. It's doing something completely senseless and irrelevant to solve a problem that requires a totally different solution.
  • Lalimama
    Lalimama Posts: 19
    Fighting the battle too. I recently read, "Made to Crave" by Lysa TerKeurst great book. You can win at this.

    Thanks - Just bought a wii fit so hoping to fight off boredom at home even if work has the potential to be an issue :smile: I will have a look on Amazon for that book too - thanks for the tip!

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