What triggers you to want to eat?

JulieF11
JulieF11 Posts: 387 Member
edited November 8 in Motivation and Support
If I am exhausted having spent hours picking up and cleaning and then my family members come in and leave items, food crumbs, pots, glasses, dishes, clothing, coats, backpacks, mail, newspapers, gym bags, sport equipment and such, all within an hour or two of coming home... like I'm their live-in help. That often acts as a trigger for me.
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  • hermanaamber
    hermanaamber Posts: 103 Member
    Oxygen!
  • lorainekc
    lorainekc Posts: 25
    For me it's days when I'm home alone with nothing to do but watch the DVR. It puts me in a bummed out mood and I will tend to go to the cabinets. Sometimes I wonder if I don't even know how to relax or something, haha.

    (I'm sorry about your family! That is really frustrating...)
  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    Most of the time, boredom.
  • andreacord
    andreacord Posts: 928
    Other people eating or smelling really good food that I really shouldn't have.
  • ratherbeskiing
    ratherbeskiing Posts: 847 Member
    my TOM or when I am cooking and hungry I ALWAYS want to sneak some bites in.
  • LHSweeney
    LHSweeney Posts: 87 Member
    Being awake
  • abbbigayl
    abbbigayl Posts: 75 Member
    PMS, Boredom, watching too much Food Network.
  • wittlelacey
    wittlelacey Posts: 391 Member
    Watching my stick skinny younger brother mindlessly indulge all the foods I crave, but strain from eating. Definitely a trigger.
  • Elizabeth_M
    Elizabeth_M Posts: 562 Member
    When I'm upset or bored.
  • vikesfanmb
    vikesfanmb Posts: 291 Member
    Watching t.v.!!
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    Smart-*kitten* answer: Hunger!
  • Renee0608
    Renee0608 Posts: 138
    Most of the time, boredom.

    What he said.....fighting the urge as we speak....but the results I got today are making me say no:)
  • nallbaby10
    nallbaby10 Posts: 86
    If I am exhausted having spent hours picking up and cleaning and then my family members come in and leave items, food crumbs, pots, glasses, dishes, clothing, coats, backpacks, mail, newspapers, gym bags, sport equipment and such, all within an hour or two of coming home... like I'm their live-in help. That often acts as a trigger for me.



    ~~~THIS~~
  • Renee0608
    Renee0608 Posts: 138
    PMS, Boredom, watching too much Food Network.

    Stupid Food Network!
  • chrisc16
    chrisc16 Posts: 94
    The time between 6 and 9 pm, TV and snacks. I leave calories because I know I'll snack.
  • sarahbear1981
    sarahbear1981 Posts: 610 Member
    Stress and really bad days where my students just can't chill! When I have to get "mean" it makes me hungry LOL
  • cjpg
    cjpg Posts: 433 Member
    Like any addiction, triggers usually occur in any heightened state of emotion - I was addicted to food and would associate eating with feelings of intense happiness, sadness, loneliness or even excitement. It was intense emotion that triggered my sense of wanting to eat.

    By recognising this I learnt to disassociate food with my emotions and channel it to what its actual purpose is - to bloody live!
  • sarahgilmore
    sarahgilmore Posts: 572 Member
    boredom, stress, cold weather
  • Bikini27
    Bikini27 Posts: 1,290 Member
    Smart-*kitten* answer: Hunger!

    hehehe....

    But besides that, I've learned that diet soda, the smell of deep fried food, complete boredom, and alcohol. Of course, too much alcohol creates the hangover that demands the deep fried food and diet coke to get over it.
  • Mamao7
    Mamao7 Posts: 79
    cold weather bordom being tired stressed... lol all of the above.
  • KettyLan
    KettyLan Posts: 440 Member
    Stresssssssssssssss and more stressssssssssssss with an ingredient call depression
  • crzyone
    crzyone Posts: 872 Member
    The evening time......could go all day without eating but when it's evening, I don't want to stop!!
  • promgirl2013
    promgirl2013 Posts: 40
    TOM, boredom, stress, cooking, sadness. :0 Food Network is a huge trigger, I must say.
  • ADobs
    ADobs Posts: 160 Member
    boredom is my big trigger. I sit at a desk all day and stare at a computer and unless I'm busy every second, my mind tends to wander towards food :(
  • UFOfitness
    UFOfitness Posts: 1
    If it is junk food you are talking about, then just having it in the house can trigger a reaction. Don't have junk food in the house. Have what you need, not what you want.
  • jazzedorange
    jazzedorange Posts: 184 Member
    It seams like Bordem is the trigger for most of the percentage. It's for me as well. It's when I am home and I don't have anything to do is when it hits. The days that everything is clean and we have done all of the shopping the days before.
  • lizabelle83
    lizabelle83 Posts: 28
    my EX husband!! ugh he stresses me out
  • lizabelle83
    lizabelle83 Posts: 28
    my EX husband!! ugh he stresses me out
  • tmarie2715
    tmarie2715 Posts: 1,111 Member
    I never thought of myself as an emotional eater, but now that I am paying such close attention to what goes in I realize I am.

    Stress and depression are the worst emotions-- they usually cause me to eat a lot. Heartbreak actually makes me feel not hungry. I also get upset stomach when I am really stressed, so I guess it works either way. I either pig out or eat nothing.
  • minkky
    minkky Posts: 73 Member
    I've discovered, just this week, that I cannot sit in the break room at work if my co-workers are eating something that smells really good or any kind of sweets. It's just too much. My husband is also a late night snacker- I have to literally leave the room.
    Also tom. Or stress.
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