I’ve become a monster. Need help!

Here are some links on emotional eating:
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/diets/emotional-eating.htm
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/why-stress-causes-people-to-overeat

You have to bring down your cortisol levels (high cortisol causes you to crave carbs and sugar).

It's all about the Hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) and it's not your fault!

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis is involved in primary response to stress through an interaction between the midbrain and the adrenal cortex. In acute stress all adrenal hormones may become elevated, including cortisol, DHEA, as well as progesterone, aldosterone and andostenedione. In chronic stress, cortisol continues to remain elevated, while other hormones drop. The high cortisol levels may actually cause corticoid receptor resistance. If stress continues, adrenal exhaustion will occur, resulting in a drop of all adrenal hormones. Shifts in adrenal hormones affect every other regulatory system.

See the website: https://www.yourhormones.com/homeostasis-systems/

I wouldn't necessarily go out and buy their supplements however...

If you are not under tremendous stress and this just cropped up out of no where, get a physical to check to see if you have something wonky going on with your adrenals.

If it is stress, try to eat less carbs and sugar and more protein and good fat - this will help you handle stress better and feed your brain and nourish your body... that may be all you need to do.

Saturated fats play many important roles in the body chemistry. They strengthen the immune system and are involved in inter-cellular communication, which means they protect us against cancer. They help the receptors on our cell membranes work properly, including receptors for insulin, thereby protecting us against diabetes. The lungs cannot function without saturated fats, which is why children given butter and full-fat milk suffer less often from asthma than children given reduced-fat milk and margarine. Saturated fats are also involved in kidney function and hormone production.

Saturated fats are required for the nervous system to function properly, and over half the fat in the brain is saturated. Saturated fats also help suppress inflammation. Finally, saturated animal fats carry the vital fat-soluble vitamins A, D and K2, which we need in large amounts to be healthy.

For Cooking

Butter
Tallow and suet from beef and lamb
Lard from pigs
Chicken, goose and duck fat
Coconut, palm and palm kernel oils

For Salads

Extra virgin olive oil (also okay for cooking)
Expeller-expressed sesame and peanut oils
Expeller-expressed flax oil (in small amounts)

For Fat-Soluble Vitamins

Fish liver oils such as cod liver oil (preferable to fish oils, which do not provide fat-soluble vitamins, can cause an overdose of unsaturated fatty acids and usually come from farmed fish.)