help I dont know how to stop!

Only you can control yourself. If you truely want it, then you have to take control of yourself.

next time you feel something like that coming on, go outside for a walk.... or call a friend, email a friend... hell, email me. I'll talk to you. You just have to do something positive. This trains you to react in a positive way to stress. Hope you find something that works

it sounds dumb but it works.
Next time you get up set give yourself 5 minutes to breathe. Think about why youre upset and how getting junk food is going to make that better. You'll realize it wont make it better. I tend to be an emotional eater as well, now I carry pictures on my phone of my husband as well as fitness models to remind why I am doing this. I hope this helps! feel free to add me as well!

I know this problem well. I also have many problems with my mother. The trick to not eating your body weight in junk food is to find some other way to channel your anger and frustration. I learned to find music which would channel those feelings for me and now after listening to a particular album or a few songs, I feel calm again and I don't want to stuff my face in order to feel better.
I really hope this helps, feel free to friend me!

Forgive yourself. We are human... try your best to break this habit, but don't fall to pieces. You will just spiral down if you are an emotional eater.

Until you can separate emotions and food, just try avoiding stressful situations that trigger eating.

Instead of going to Sonic.....go to the park and take a long walk or run. Or go to the library or video store and get a workout video and do it. Or go to the gym if you can. Find something else to to to occupy yourself other than eat. If certain foods are just too tempting, then don't have them around you AT ALL. It takes at least 3 weeks to break a bad habit/ start a new one...so keep working hard to stay on the right track.

Congratulations, I know that doesn't seem right at the moment, but you have taken the first step and realized that the problem is emotional eating. These are the things that I do instead: go for a walk, heck if you have to walk or bike ride to the Sonic that is 5-10 miles away and then home you have at least worked it off, write a journal entry about it to let go of the frustration, find a replacement food that will work for you in this situation, in other words allow yourself to indulge (being here is a lifetime change, and there are going to be times where you need something that is a comfort food). Finally, accept it, record it, and move on. Its in the past, learn from it, maybe even take a kick boxing class tonight, but most important know that you are doing well. Keep up the good work.

Jules

the only way I have been able to control things like that is to JUST DO IT.. literally.. there is no magic way of thinking or motivation that helps you to change your way of thinking and that helps your control.. you just have to do it.. dont let your emotions win.. maybe do something else. remember that your feelings that your feeling at that moment will go away but the popcorn chicken in your belly wont!

Most people don't gain weight because they just loooove eating crappy food. Most of us gain wait because we're comforting ourselves with food or eating when we're emotional. It's great that you're here and trying to eat better and lose the weight. I know that you know that one bad day isn't going to derail that train, but you're right, in order to have long lasting effects and be able to keep going and stay healthy, you have to disconnect emotion from food.

There is always a reason behind the reason that we have weight problems. My advice is to look into getting someone professional to talk to. Dig deeper inside and see what's making you grab fried food when you're upset. You deserve to reap the benefits of your hard work and not have arguments or bad days hold you back from being healthy.

My husband is on a medically monitored liquid diet and as part of his personal plan he is seeing a very nice therapist outside of that program who has been able to help him stop eating out of fear or eating emotionally or just eating without thinking. It is certainly worth looking into.

Good luck!

I got in a fight with my mother and the first thing i did was break all the healthy rules i have made for myself and went to sonic to eat a large popcorn chicken a soda and chili cheese tots. What can i do? I don't know how to change! How do i stop eating from stress and emotion, or what can i do to make it better?

ANY help or advice would be great thanks!
Paige

Oooh, I can totally relate.

I just gave up smoking 26 days ago. I used to smoke first thing in the morning, after every meal, while socialising and - of course - when stressed.

The way I gave up was to ----stop associating smoking with these things ----. For example, I no longer associated the end of a meal with a cigarette, I used chewing gum instead to begin with. Then water. Now I'm ok with nothing.
It was the association that AUTOMATICALLY lead me to a cigarette, whether I physically wanted it or not.
Once I removed the association, I realised that the physical addiction is very slight.

It's a change of attitude and associations that's needed.
Best of luck!
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