What makes you to OVEREAT?
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STRESS is my number one factor for overeating! That and boredom.1
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I'm back after a few years away. Happy to be back. Nancy0
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I tend to want to eat when I don't feel well. It's like I think if I can just find the right food, I will feel better, but more often than not I feel better briefly and then I'm back to the same overly tired barely able to function feeling.0
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Stress bad mental health so eating instead of cutting. My gastroparesis so bad days where I'm sick lots and just feeling hungry as I'm getting no nutrition. Days when my gastroparesis is good as my mind set thinks when I'm in a bad flare I won't be able to keep much down. Triggers of guilt from other things. Depression so when I'm feeling bad. Out of habit.0
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I overeat if there's oppurtunity, if there's no one around, to justify that I have done anything, that feels challenging. I overeat in secret, and when stressed, when anxious, but especially if I am lonely. I overeat when people, events, the world either hurts me or disappoints me.
Overeating has become my biggest secret, and my biggest enemy, my biggest burden.0 -
Boredom, my period, stress, and negative thinking!0
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I struggle with or eating the kids pizza and sugar snacks and I eat until I am numb0
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I have extreme anxiety. Especially when my kids are not with me. When they are at school, with grandparents..etc. I over eat to take my mind off of my irrational thoughts.1
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I can relate 100% to this. I’m a stay at home mom of 2 under 5 & it’s hard to remember that I have my own wants & needs in life because I’m always doing something (mostly unappreciated) for my family. I have rediscovered myself, thank goodness, hopefully you can do the same, if helps so so much! Prayers! Being a SAHM is mentally & physically exhausting, it definitely does a number on your self worth. Idk if I could have managed with TRIPLETS! You are a super mom!4thehardman wrote: »I seem to always be in the kitchen. With 3 little ones and one only slightly bigger one there are always lots of leftovers, once I start picking I can't stop, next its a bowl of cereal or a yogurt, maybe some of the kids cookies or chocolate. I do think its boredom and a bit that I didn't plan to be a stay at home mum with triplets +1 and I've lost my identity. I eat because then I'm too busy to be unhappy and I should be very happy, I'm a very lucky Mum and wife and my life is good. Its just that I don't always think I deserve it and I self destruct by stuffing myself.
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I tend to over eat on a Friday or Saturday that I have had a really good week of eating well (not over eating like 2 boxes of pizza) and then that takes control over me for loke 3 weeks and the i reset. It has gotten so bad that I decided to fast to remove food from my mind entirely and focus on other things.
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carbs and sweets are my weakness! I do not deny myself but I know if I have in house it is hard! So I buy good things and maybe just a candy bar not the whole bag! I still can’t have desserts in the house!! I know I have no self control! If I want something I will buy a piece instead of the whole dessert!! This is hard 😳🙃
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Boredom or Habit. Watching TV is a trigger sometimes.
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Hi. New to this group. I know why I overeat. I do it when I feel afraid. knowing this doesn’t help only because my fear is subconscious. Growing up the only girl and having four brothers, I was relentlessly picked on. My nickname was piggy. I had a very small nose that was turned up and my brothers thought it was funny to make fun of me. There were many incidences over the years that impacted my mental state to the point where I had very little trust in anyone. It has been a struggle to allow myself to be social. I have had some success in going out to be Social. Each time lasts about two weeks or so until I meet someone who inevitably attempts to take advantage of me in one way or another. So, I fear living a normal life will never happen for me. I developed PTSD at a young age after one of my parents was murdered. I have been able to hold a job, have relationships with spouses, and attend gatherings. However, the unfortunate truth is that I have to pretend in order to function. When faced with new people or new places, I move forward and it all looks very normal. But later when I am alone and the coping skills I have learned fail, I turn to comfort in food. I am certain at this point that I will need to put much effort into eating only what I need and what is nutritious. But I know in reality I will face thousands of moments when I will turn to sugar for the temporary fix it provides.
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I don’t really know for sure why I overeat. Just to feel warmer, to get more energy than I have when I don’t have enough. To stop feeling anxious. Any answer has got to become known to me as a bogus one though because I need to put my health above all the rest of the things in my life right now.
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