Binging/overeating when not hungry

Are you getting enough sleep? Consider getting some help around the house, esp with your OH away a lot. Teach the children to get more involved in cleaning.

ultrahoon wrote: »

Honestly you sound like you have a potential eating disorder. I'd see a doctor and ask for a referral.

This.

Also, stop putting yourself last. Are you from the 1950s? Girl power, baby! You deserve to look after yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you!

Don't get mad with me, get mad with yourself. Go to bed, and sleep well knowing you've got this. You can sort yourself out. You can do it!

You don't have to go from zero to running a marathon overnight. Just start with small reasonable goals one at a time.

Maybe start by committing to sleep 7-8 hours per day and drink 8 glasses of water. Then two weeks later add a commitment to walk 10,000 steps per day. Then two weeks later start tracking your food intake. Etc.

The comments from you that most concerns me is when you keep pointing to food as your coping mechanism. If you're sad, you eat. If you're stressed, you eat. Food is not the only coping mechanism. Yes, it's the one you've been using and it takes time and commitment to change that. If you do get a chance to talk to a specialist, I think they can help you with this. Food doesn't have to be the only solution you turn to. Ask other people what they do when they feel the feels. Try their strategies. Maybe one will work for you, too.

mindless snacking is also my problem so a few things that work for me most the time i know you said cleaning isn't a high priority for you but could you use it as a displacement activity instead of eating? so if your about to snack set yourself a goal to do x amount of hevy cleaning first, best case scenario it will take your mind off of food long enough to take you nearer to a meal time so you don't snack, worst case you clean then snack anyway but at least the cleaning burnt off a few calories and took a bit of time so you may only have 1 snack not 2! with regard to snacking in the car ,I make it a rule no food or drink in the car ( unless on the way back from the supermarket) so if I want to go and get a takeaway I have to park and walk in, often this is enough to stop me, if I fuel at the garage and buy and food I have to eat it before I get back in the car ect. a bit like a recovering alcoholic try not to put yourself in situations that you know will be hard so if walking the school run I cant take my wallet or I tend to stop at the shop for ice cream for the kids and me, no money no chance of stopping so the kids get theres when we get in and I only buy the ones im not keen on. hope you find ways to cope and improve it does take time but it can be done if you take it step by step and dont make a big deal over every slip up instead celebrate each snack you successfully avoid.

Inglebert wrote: »

We've booked for whole family to go to Latvia in May for half-marathon for husband, and 10k for the 3 girls and me. 2 of the girls keen (they do parkrun), 1 not so much. This is a challenge for me and I want to do it in reasonable style.

Like @KittensMaster, I think it's so important that you build a healthier relationship with food. Please be a healthy role model for your daughters! (I'm so grateful to my mother for keeping a vegetable garden, taking us to pick-your-own orchards and berry farms, and making us walk after dinner.)

For me, the key was to get 100% honest with my logging. It took months—even though my diary was private. Like exercise, the more you do it the better you get at it. Logging is simple, but it ain't easy. Logging works.

Therapy, exercise, and yoga have helped me tremendously with emotional eating.

How Yoga Can Help End Binge Eating

One breath at a time, end the suffering of binge-eating

...According to Juliano, yoga gives people the skills to stay with what they are feeling, rather than turning to food to escape. People who are obese or suffering from eating disorders have a tendency to dissociate from their bodies -- to choose not to feel what they are feeling when they are angry, anxious, or sad. Often, they turn to food to numb themselves. "There's this sense that I have to feel better right now, " Juliano says. "There is a complete intolerance of what is happening right now." This need to escape unpleasant feelings triggers a binge.

When you eat to escape what you are feeling, you lose touch with the experience of eating, as well. This is one reason binges can spiral out of control. "You have no understanding that you are full, way past full, into uncomfortable, because you're so out of it," Juliano explains. "You have no connection to what you're eating. You're eating a pint of ice cream and can't even taste it. Or you go to make yourself some toast and before you know it, half the loaf is gone."

Mindful yoga directly challenges the habit of dissociating from your body and your present-moment experience. "The whole point of yoga is to stay connected to your body. You learn it through practice, through breathing, and through breathing through the sensations."

Read more: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-willpower/201007/how-yoga-can-help-end-binge-eating

Inglebert wrote: »

...So. I have been 'trying' to lose it over the years. Any of the ways I try work for about 8 hours then I overeat/binge. Every day.

If you would make your diary public I could give you more meaningful feeback http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings > Diary Sharing

I'm wondering if you are restricting yourself too much in those first 8 hours and/or eating foods that do not satisfy you: http://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/fuller/understanding-satiety-feeling-full-after-a-meal.html