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I'm also a 32 yo single mom struggling with weight and emotional eating. Feel free to add me. We can keep each other motivated.

A support group is always best for me. Add me. Together we can support each other to loose weight.

As wyatts_mom... mentioned working out in water is great for less stress on your body. Also I find that myfitnesspal was most effective for me with this approach: first I ate whatever I wanted and didn't judge myself for it. Believe me eventually you will get tired of it if all you ever eat is junk food all day and it also freed me from guilt because for me it creates a cycle where I feel deprived and want to eat more sweets. So allowing myself to eat what I want calms me because I know I can have a slice of that chocolate cake anytime I want to so I can say no to it now if I want and eat it later if I feel like it. Another reason why this approach worked is that it allowed me to see what I was eating on a regular basis. I could see that some days my calories were really low and other days they were super high. I often felt not very hungry on certain days and wanted to eat everything in sight on other days, that was the reason why. It had become a kind of cycle of deficit and surplus calorie intake. If I hadn't observed my current eating habits I probably would not have noticed the trend. After that I started paying attention to when my calories were highest and lowest and what foods I tended to turn to when I was low on calories. For me when I am low on calories I tend to crave sweets and pasta. So a pattern that had occurred with me was eating really large portions of pasta. After discovering that and realizing that pasta was a big calorie sink for me I started watching my portions when I eat pasta. I also started trying to eat more at meals other than dinner. Because I would not eat much through out the rest of the day I would come home and eat really large portions or turn to sweets for more calories for dinner. Trying to make my meals more consistent helps me to keep from eating too many sweets or carbohydrates. Now that I have been tracking my calories for a while and I have a better gage on the calories in each meal my next step is to focus on bringing in more healthy foods. So I can still eat whatever I want but now I try to include some healthy options for meals. It doesn't have to be an all or nothing change or a battle with yourself. I've found that for me when I had the most weight loss is when I added healthier foods to my current diet and started being more active. For emotional eating the best thing to do is to try to learn when you are hungry and when you are full. Slow down when you are eating and try to find the point when you feel comfortably full from the meal. That is your stopping point. This may take time to figure out for yourself. When you understand what full feels like for you then you will have better understanding of whether you are really hungry or not. Though the most important and long term solution to emotional eating is to combine the step above with finding out the reason you are emotional eating. If you figure out the emotion then you can figure out a different way to resolve it than just eating. Sorry this turned into such a long comment but I hope that some of this information might be useful to you.

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