which is harder for you - boredom eating or stress eating?

Hmmm...a little of both. When I'm stressed, I usually want bad foods. When I'm bored, I just tend to eat a lot of anything that's around - healthy or not, it's more about portions when it comes to boredom.

bored.......

DEFINITELY emotional/stress eating, especially when I'm bummed out.

I'm pretty good at not being bored, so bored eating isn't much of an issue for me.

I'm better with controlling it at home than work...I'll get caught up in t.v. or something and find that I don't eat as much. Especially since I typically don't buy snacks to keep in the house. One thing for sure I need to start DRINKING WATER when at home.

Boredom. If I'm slow at work I will sit and snack all day. Same at home.

For me it is boredom eating....I have the most trouble on days when I have too much free time around the house to just sit and veg on the couch with snacks!!

I started knitting when I watch TV. I just do scarves - no counting or paying attention needed. I make them for the guys at our local VA and the homeless shelter downtown and keep the basket right next to the couch. This definitely helps and when I do snack I can't eat buttery things (ahem, nasty delicious popcorn) because it makes the needles slippery!

defo boredom eating, being a SAHM means im usually on top of housework and stuff so when im at home and im all houseworked out i eat but since i have started "dieting" i have been dancing when i have nothing to do

I do both and I am surely a procrastinating eater too.. If I don't want to do something I will just eat something instead of getting to it.. bad bad habits..

I do this too!!!

As for bored versus stressed, well it depends on whether I'm bored or stressed!

Seriously though, I can fall into boredom eating, but stress eating while writing my master's thesis (meaning that it was combined with just sitting at a computer all day) is where I gained almost all my weight. I knew it was happening, too, and what the result would be, but it just didn't matter (there were some technical problems with it, I had like 1/4 of the normal time, and b/c I was part of the first graduating class of that program there were a lot of unresolved issues, to the point where it was actually accepted literally at the last minute for me to be able to graduate on time, plus I was wondering what would happen when I graduated.). Actually it's funny because even now as I lose the weight, I think that it's less stressful to be losing the weight than it would have been to deprive myself while I was doing all that stuff. I managed to curb it a bit with tea (I read tea is supposed to make you less stressed), though I also drank coffee for that reason and to try to stay up and found out the hard way that that isn't for me. Coffee raises some people's stress levels. So yeah, tea! Herb tea, black tea, green tea, all of it.

As for bored eating recommendations: I have a rule of no food anywhere but the kitchen. That means no food while on the computer, no food while watching tv (well technically I can see the tv from the kitchen, but it's farther away, standing up at the doorway type of thing.) I also come on these boards whenever I have the inclination to boredom eat, it fulfills the need completely. Also, tea (green tea with lemon is supposed to help with weight loss anyway) or other low/no calorie beverages. Also I find that cooking helps (don't nibble though!). Apparently that's what my grandmother used to do when she was on a diet, cook all the stuff she wanted to eat and then just not eat it. It doesn't seem like it should work but it really does. If I'm not careful I'm going to wind up with a freezer full of brownies and cakes, LOL. But also trying cooking different healthy recipes is a great thing.

Stress eating, specifically when I'm feeling anxious, is the big one for me. Food is calming and sedating.

^This,

I do both and I am surely a procrastinating eater too.. If I don't want to do something I will just eat something instead of getting to it.. bad bad habits..

^and this.

I've only learned to try to keep busy and out of the house, but this is a HUUUGE issue for me. Midterms and finals make it worse. On the look out for suggestions! >.>

BORED EATER!! Majorly...anytime im bored all i wanna do is EAT! So now when i get to the point that I feel like im going to be heading to the kitchen...i clean my house or organize something lol sounds stupid..but it works for me and let me tell ya...my house is CLEAN!! lol

I am definitely belong in the boredom category. When I'm stressed I don't eat at all. Two extremes! I need to keep busy in the evenings. Sitting in front of the tv or my laptop is not a good thing

A boredom eater! If I stay busy I'm fine, but if I don't have anything to do or am just watching TV, I like to eat. PLUS I have a desk job, which is absolutely horrible for wanting to snack all day long!

Boredom eating definately. When I am stressed I dont eat because I am usuall sick to my stomach, but when I am bored....look out.... :grumble:

I was going to say boredom, because that's always been a problem for me, but the more I think about it...I'd have to say stress eating. When I get really upset, I feel like saying screw it and eating whatever I want.

Stress, unequivocably. If I'm bored, I pick up my knitting/crocheting and then don't want to get my fingers dirty. I usually snack on fingery type foods. But, when I'm stressed, I'm like the energizer bunny - can't focus on anything and just want to shove everything into my mouth.