Recovery From Emotional Eating - I Need Buddies Who Get It!

I know what is it like to let food control your thoughts. I was born overweight and am finally getting a handle on my food issues. I have read the "Beck Diet Solution" book and gone through the accompanying workbook. I also follow the Beck Diet Solution on Facebook for daily tips.

There is light at the tunnel. You can get over this hurdle!!!!!!!

I empathize with all of you ladies. I was overweight from childhood, and am just trying to get under 200 pounds. I almost made it a couple of years ago (202), then had surgery and gained a lot back. Now I am 250 ish and really trying to get it under control. Good luck to everybody!

There are groups on MFP for those of us who have problems with food. Take a look and find some buddies who can relate!

There's a group: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/726-binge-eating-support-group.

They are very supportive and since they're all going through the same thing, you don't have to worry about judgement or trying to explain yourself. They know exactly what you're dealing with. :flowerforyou:

I am 150 lbs. over weight. Food is such a problem for me as far as stress, boredom, lonliness, happiness, don't matter the occasion. I know I am bad when I go get 3 donuts and milk and eat them. Or a bag of walnuts, OMG I will eat so much more than a 1/4 cup serving.

Food has ruled my life and emotions ever since I was a little girl. Would love to meet people who can share with me how they have recovered or fight to continue to recover from emotional eating.

I do good, lose 5 to 15 lbs. and then something comes up, stress, uncertainty and bamn! I stop getting on here, stop working out and gain it all back. If I could add up 2012 alone I would have lost about 40 lbs. had I not gained it all back this year. So frustrating!

Add me if you get it, thanks.

You had me at Emotional ...

Seriously, I eat to celebrate, to grieve, out of boredom, out of lonliness, stress, happiness and even jsut because it smells good ...

I eat because "it's Christmas", or a birthday party. I because it's lunch time, or because you are eating. I eat because food is good. I eat because I wanna try everything, and taste everything, and experience everything. I think about visiting new places and my first thought is ... I'll have to try thier food!

I eat when I am mad, when I am sad and sometimes I eat because I am disappointed in myself for eating so much.

You ask how I recovered from this? I haven't. Every day is a challenge for me. Everyday I wake up and look in the mirror and want to give up. Everyday something happens that makes want to reach for the nearest menu. I haven't recovered one single bit. The only thing I have managed to do is convince myself to log EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth. EVERYTHING.

100% honest, true, to the wire logging. No matter how bad, unhealthy, embarrassing it is. I log it. I log it and I make my diary public. It's like my own personal form of Food Shaming. The more days I log, the more thought I give something before eating it. Do I really want EVERYONE to see me eat that piece of cake? Drink that smoothie? Partake in ANOTHER fast food lunch? Nothing else has worked for me. Logging every bite, every morsel is the only thing that has slowed down that hand to mouth action.

Good Luck!

I totally get you! This time last year I went from 201 to 168 in just a just a few months. I felt awesome! And Just knew that I was going to get to my goal weight super fast.... But then I plateaued.. I didn't lose even one pound in a month. I changed my intake, added strength training but still nothing.. So I gave up...stopped working out and went back to my old habits. When I started back up a lil' over a month ago I was at 220!! I gained everything back and then some...but Now I am back on track! I'm under 200 and never plan on getting that heavy again. (unless I have a baby on the way:happy: )

I've sent you an add request

I did the exact same thing. I originally joined two years ago and didn't get involved with others, plateaued and quit everything. Later the same year they removed my thyroid, things got bad, fast. By May of this year I had gained another 25 lbs since my surgery and that was on a "starvation" type diet. I was eating but all food consumption was in a 6- 8 hour time span, ALL the wrong foods, sedentary lifestyle. It was bad. I could hardly stand to look in the mirror anymore. Then my doctor shamed me in his office and I burst into tears and decided I'd show him - tell me I can't change... that I CAN'T do something... I have since changed doctors because he really sucked but sometimes I thank Dr. demented too.

Stay active in groups and forums. remember there are a lot of people here going through it. Don't give up on giving them support either. :drinker:

I get it.

I have been overweight since I was a child and I have been emotionally binge eating since before puberty. Finally at 33 I am doing something about it - I have never really dieted but have tried to change my lifestyle a couple of times but failed at committing to the change.

Now it is the only way - yes I still binge or eat from boredome (last night) but I am getting better at my choices and how I see food.

Also I am trying to love working out - I spend hours at the gym and enjoy it! I just signed up for my first 5K at the end of this month and even if I have walk part of the way - I will finish it!

Agree agree agree would like to pair up with someone to share ideas, thoughts about triggers and strategies. Message me if you think it is a good idea and might help

Hello I'm Reta. Just started yesterday. My dietician informed me about this app.I hoping to keep the 40 lbs i lost off. I've be boredom eating. Not a good thing.

Hello!! I know what you mean about emotional eating. I am one that will be start a new "diet" on Monday, and then, by the weekend, I'm off of it again. I then will eat just about anything I can think of. I will go to a fast food place and eat anything I want and then I will go get something sweet to eat before I'm done. I usually will do this for a few days leading up to the weekend, say Thursday or so. That way I have the whole weekend to pig out before I start my next diet on Monday. When I decide to go off of the diet and just eat with reckless abandon, I kind of feel excited and peaceful because I know that my next diet is gonna be the one that is gonna finally help me to get the weight off. One thing that you could try to do is to make small changes to your diet. Eat the things that your normally eat, but just smaller portions of them. Be sure to track them so that you know what you have left for the day. For instance, let's say that when you sit down at night to watch T.V. you just have to have some popcorn to eat while you watch T.V. Well, you can still do that, but buy the 100 calorie bags of butter popcorn and eat it slowly. That way you don't feel like you're being deprived. Once you get the hang of that, then try to start substituting that popcorn with some fruit or something like that. Remember, baby steps. God bless!!