For me it is high stress, though if it is too high I quit eating. I also tend to overaeat when I feel out of control.

I have been teaching myself new ways of dealing with these because overeating does not help in fact for me it made things worse.

You are so right about eating after weigh-in. I've done the same thing so many times. In my mind I deserved it. Wrong way to think lol. It truly is hard to get back on track once you allow all that "bad" food back in.

I have recently learned that I am a stress eater. My boyfriend is away, and I've noticed that I have been eating out, and making the wrong choices when I get too worried about him.

Goodness when I am stressed, when I am tired, when I am happy, when I am sad, when I feel rejected, when I am happy, when I feel lazy, when I am at home, when I am passing through the bakery isle, when I am over hungry, when I am bored...you name it I can find a reason to overeat...sigh..it is my vice

I overeat when I'm anxious and overwhelmed. Once I start I can't stop. I need to find a way to break the habbit.

I. Just. Need. To. Stop. Eating!!! So sick of being overweight!!. Life is stressful, and I can't see that changing, so somehow I have to figure out how to deal with that without eating all the time!

I'm definitely a "comfort" eater. I eat to change my brain chemistry which tends to be low on serotonin anyway. So evening is a really difficult time because I tend to eat to calm the agitation I feel when I'm tired but it's too early to bed. I also suffer with sugar cravings, not surprising since it is so addictive.

stress, sadness and delicious food!

I eat because of an array of reasons, one is just nothing to do... my other issue is cooking, i pick and taste. One other big thing is I work nights and lack sleep and I catch myself eating to stay awake for one reason or another. Big holiday food events at our house. I wish you didn't to eat but since you do i will have to work on willpower and making myself really focus on me and my goals. Hard stuff coming.

stress... boredom.. but the worst is when I'm down depressed, I get the seasonal blues and I find myself eating to feel better.

I am definitely a stress-eater. I am 26 and I work in a bakery (gasp!). I have been in the bakery for about 6 years now. Often, food workers of any sort will say that they no longer desire a food after being around it so much, for me the more I am around it, the more I want it. There are ALWAYS cookies laying around to nibble on and I do so mostly after lunch or when it's a particularly stressful time with customers.

I always read that the first step to control is often removing the junk food from your life. This is impossible because I can't just quit my job as a cake decorator. At home there is very minimal junk, my fiancé and I just don't buy it on the regular and when I am at home I feel about 99% less stressed than when I am at work so I barely even care to have dinner when I'm at home.

I should also mention that I do pack my own lunch but it never feels sufficient. I am a vegetarian so I always try to incorporate protein in the form of dairy or soy, but still I crave sweets right after lunch or when I want to strangle someone who is being unfairly rude to me.

I'm not sure how to combat my problem. Winter makes it a hundred times worse as I am usually face with the winter blues, it seems to get worse as the years go on. It's going to be -7 on Monday and I am dreading going outside, to me the cold is a form of extreme discomfort. So, moving and quitting my job are not even options right now, so I'm just going to keep on trying.

Has anyone here sought professional counseling for help with eating or the winter blues? I have been strongly considering it. I could also use some fitness friends, I recently made a new account because it seems my old one went stale as far as my friends list was concerned.

I typically overeat when I'm bored, when I've had a bad day, or if I'm craving chocolate (you know... that time of the month.... ugh!)

I made a tile on my windows phone that says "You're not hungry, you're bored" to remind me of my tendency to eat when I need to find something to do.

I also try to keep only healthy, vegan snacks in the house (we're vegans), so that if I do find myself in the kitchen, the only choices I have are healthy and won't put me over my calorie goal too much.

But I find when I workout, I don't have this problem as often.

I am definitely a stress-eater. I am 26 and I work in a bakery (gasp!). I have been in the bakery for about 6 years now. Often, food workers of any sort will say that they no longer desire a food after being around it so much, for me the more I am around it, the more I want it. There are ALWAYS cookies laying around to nibble on and I do so mostly after lunch or when it's a particularly stressful time with customers.

I relate to this. I used to work in a cheese factory and it went up and down. There were times I could not stomach the stuff outside of work and there were times I was all over the staff bin. The difference? Stress. Stress made me go to the staff bin :-) My way around it was to detour when exiting the factory. It was worse in the chips factory, though no staff bin there thankfully :-)

Stress makes me want to eat. Open packages on the table of junk make meat I cannot stop until the bag is empty when there is a bag of anything (nuts, chips etc etc) on the table. I am fine when it is the cupboard and out of sight (and mind) My number one rule: do not open it!

A big stress factor is when I have to perform' for instance a presentation, new project something where I am not certain of myself. A form of hiding myself I guess. Over time I noticed it is not so much the food that is the issue for me; it is keeping my hands busy. A physical need to do something. As if my hands need to be in motion for my brain to work properly. My solution there has been to take up knitting. Seriously then my hands are busy and I could not for the life of me eat stuff at the same time and not destroy my work. At work where that is not possible the stressball has been a lifesaver. Tidying up, walking to get a cup of tea, bringing papers to somebody else. Just generally any movement seems to work for me.
So now every time I feel stress taking over and me wanting to eat something I try to grab something in my hands.

By no means have I broken my stress/emotional eating habit. It has broken my work related stress habit by about 75% I'd say. The emotional stress that comes from other parts of life (relationships etc) I haven't been as successful. Seems that part of it is much deeper roorted :-( working on that one.

It's almost always stress, loneliness, or fear. I just started going back to college part-time this week after a long break (beginning with math classes...oh boy), and I'm beginning a new full-time job in a few weeks. I know the emotional eating is going to be so hard for me, but I don't want it to keep me from reaching my goals. That's why I joined myfitnesspal and this group.

Gotta find some other way to deal with this math anxiety! One that doesn't involve mashed potatoes, chocolate, and/or Chinese takeout. I'll take all the help I can get.

For me its stress, family issues (when someone hurts my feelings bad food makes me feel better) and most importantly time!!
Never enough time to get things done much less cook better for myself.