struggling today

A lot of people use food as a coping tool. When I forced myself to cut back on food, all my "issues" became front and center. In recovery circles they call those, "character defects" - those things that we let take over us in a negative way...resentments, anger, selfishness, fear (ego).

So when I had problems come up, I had to find other ways of dealing with them other than putting some substance in my mouth.

I'm gonna go ahead and blame my mother, God rest her soul. When I was a teensy tot and had a temper tantrum she gave me food or a bottle. I guess sometimes it really is hunger. Sometimes it's just uncomfortable emotions.

Work through it. It's worth it in the end to get to a healthy weight AND to have coping strategies for life that don't include eating as a soothing tool.

I’m having a rough day too. Seems you’ve been at this for a while so I don’t know what I can say except to reiterate what I’m telling myself after reading this posted by other peps on MFP: “distract yourself” “drink water” “just do it” “It’s a marathon, not a sprint” “motivation is what happens after you do the work” “try eating at maintenance for the day”... if you have any more I’d love be to hear em!