Anyone have any tips for tired/stress eating?

I can understand how stressed you are.
I have some ideas and I hope they help. I'm still struggling every now and then. However, I'm so much better since I've been on MFP.
These are some things I do that help;
lOG EVERYTHING ! It's the only way I'm honest with the reality of my health.
Drink two to three glasses of water or hot tea when you feel a "binge" coming on.
Eat lean protein, at the beginning of the urge.
Chew gum
Take a walk and then jog to a run. Start with what I call "to the lamppost runs". It just calms a bit of anxiety and it's free (no gym membership). Now I'm doing bridge to 10k and running for 60 minutes 4 days a week. It is an addiction. I started with just doing 5-10 minutes a day.
Try to set a limit the next day by reviewing your logs.
Try to get as much sleep as possible and cut back on caffeine, especially after 3 p.m.
Take your multivitamin.

Most of all know you do have support here when you need it.:drinker:

self control.

I hear you. I have the same probs (tired/stress eating) only mine is from being 57 and from working long stressful hours and commuting 45 mins each way thru heavy traffic. It's wearisome. So I grab the free ice cream at work, a glass of wine when I get home, nosh nosh nosh, and gosh-I-should-have-arisen-early-to-run (but didn't) happens a lot more than I'd like. My only tip is to have super healthy foods around, and eat very lightly but more often. Logging helps (and yeah, I should get back to doing that, too!). Good luck!

To stop binges, I tell myself "keep calm and don't eat."

It really works because it kills the anxiety that causes me to get workes up into a binge.

of course, I don't tell myself that at meal time!

I'm a grad student (in my final year of med school), and I've put on a lot of weight recently. My lifestyle has become so unhealthy. I wake up early, am at the hospital by 6, and home around 6 or 7 pm. I always plan to make it to the gym in the morning, but then am so tired when I wake up I just go back to sleep for another 30 min - 1 hour rather than going for a run. Then, when I get home in the evenings I'm so dead tired I just study a little, then sit on the couch and mindless watch tv and snack. I eat healthy up until about 8 pm, and then I eat whatever I can find. I'm not even hungry, I just stuff my face because it's like my one form of comfort these days. I'm really struggling with this, and was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and found something that helped them. I know I just need to stop doing this, but it's difficult right now.

I can identify with this post all too well. I am currently in my second year of medical residency, and I keep crazy *kitten* hours with 24 hour calls 1-2 times per week. I know exactly what it's like to sit in zombie mode, too exhausted to do anything but eat. I gained 37 pounds in my first year of residency.

My advice to you is the following: work out. In your case, to hit the gym before work is overly ambitious and just not doable at this stage, IMO. Work out in the evenings. No matter how tired you are, make yourself do some kind of exercise for at least 30 minutes, at least 3 times a week. You don't have to go crazy, and really there's a moment when the gesture of changing into work out clothes and interrupting your normal schedule to do some light exercise is more important than the work out itself, especially in the beginning. After a while it becomes routine to work out, and you'll start enjoying it and focusing on the quality of the exercise. You might feel even more tired the first week, but soon your energy levels will pick up, you'll feel better knowing that you're doing something good for yourself, and more importantly: if you're out doing exercise you're not home eating junk.

Remember, this is temporary. Best of luck!