Depression seems to push me to overeat. Eating right and getting exercise is sometimes difficult because it feels like I'll never get the results I want. When I get into this way of thinking, I don't care how much or how badly I eat. I'll actually shovel food into my mouth out of spite because I feel like, if I'll never look good, I might as well make a pig of myself. :explode:

I think this is a great thread! the 'why' is always the most important part, at least for me. willpower has little to do with it most of the time, its something deeper that make me want to eat everything infront of me, or starve myself. i have been keeping a daily journal for myself about how i feel each day about food, that helps a lot. I think sharing our daily stuff (as we find appropriate) is a great tool, hearing what others are feeling great/bad about on any given day can help us learn too! thanks for sharing everyone!!

This last week it's been just hunger. Going for one thing eating ten things. I don't have to much stress right now, not sad, angry, lonely or anything like that. I just really wanted the taste and texture of certain foods.

I just feel hungry and some foods are so good, I just want more and more. This happened last night with quesadillas. Cheese is a big problem for me.

For me most of my binges come from needing to replace...SOMETHING. I wont go into the details in this thread, but I've mostly gotten over that, Now it's the habit trying to get out of me. I want to relax at the end of the day, and eat a bag of chips while watching some shows. Normally I keep chips, cookies, and other things like that out of the house, but the family wanted me to bake some cookies. I had an 8 cookie binge! Which is actually not bad at all compared to a few years ago. I would have eaten 24 easily and maybe stuffed down a few more. Darn habits. And I'm probably replacing sex with food. I've been away from my husband for over a month and gained 12lbs before I realized it.