Emotional Eater looking for friends (PLEASE HELP)

Water really helps to full you up. Also keeping distracted. When I feel like I am going to eat when I'm not hungry I go to the gym or for a walk. Sometimes dance videos help to to keep your mind off of everything going on and have fun too. You can find lots on youtube.

I'm an emotional eater too - any time I'm stressed or anxious I go for the sweets. It's sooo hard but distraction is really the only thing that works for me. And hot tea at night. So much of controlling it is a mind game.

Fellow emotional eater here too. Here's my favorite practice for learning to feel feelings, which eventually led to less emotional eating.

This was created by one of my mentors, Sally Hope, and she calls it the LOVE Technique.

L – Let whatever feelings that are there FULLY be there. Really feel them and let them wash over you. Say: “I’m experiencing the feeling of _______”

O – Observe. Observe where in your body your feel these feelings. Ask “where in my body do I feel this right now?” and “what does it feel like?” Keep feeling that feeling in your body.

If you truly feel it, and observe and feel it in the body, the emotion if likely to shift into…

V – Vulnerability. This is the next level emotion (closer to truth, hence the word vulnerability) underneath the one you started with. Ask “What’s here now?” And then go back to “L” by then letting that feeling be there.

There isn’t ALWAYS another feeling underneath the one you started with, so if not, just keep feeling the original one.

You’ll know you’re done with the exercise when you get to “E” which is...

E – Ease. You’ll know you’re done with the exercise when you feel a sense of ease or calm. You might still feel the emotion, but it won’t have the same hold on you that it did before.

That’s when you know you’re done. If you don’t get to ease, it’s likely there is still an emotion that you haven’t let yourself feel yet.

Check out the Emotional Eating group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1012-emotional-eating

I keep meaning to post there, although I haven't really participated, since emotional eating is something I struggle with off and on.

One thing I found helpful was journaling and really keeping track of what the triggers were when I wanted to eat and then working on ways to respond to that. It also helps me when I eat according to a regular schedule (three meals and maybe a snack if I am working out heavily). Once I lose the expectation of eating at other times it is easier to resist the desire to do so if something comes up.

Mindful eating and working on sitting with emotions (I actually recommend checking out the Calm app if you have access, it's been really helpful for me) are also things that I use.

Kasha0903 wrote: »

Hi Everyone I'm New to the community In search of some new friends willing to keep each other motivated. I suffer from emotional eating and truly ready for change. Any advice for me is greatly appreciated also please add me

I am not an emotional eater I have a lot of stress from work and my ex when I get stressed out I go for the hard liquor had I don't know what to do you all can add me hand maybe we can help each other through private message

chuckleberry72 wrote: »

I hear ya. I eat carrots and pickles now. Very few calories in both of those.

Question - I'm new here so forgive me. But aren't pickles really high in sodium? Or is it okay to eat in moderation?