Hey I joined your group today. I overheat when I am bored or stressed or happy or sad. I just love food.

I don't seem to have one trigger--happy, sad, stressed...the only change is what kind of emotional eating i do.

I overeat when Ii feel depressed

I eat when I am lonely. Late at night when the rest of the world is asleep and I am all alson I eat and I don't stop. Food is my friend, it keeps me busy so I am not bored, it comforts me when I am sad, it gives me and escape when I am stressed.

My triggers are stress (emtional pain, fear, feeling overwhelmed, etc.), fatigue, and boredom/lonlieness. It seems like overeating to cope originated for me around junior high school. In order to distract myself from a dysfunctional family life and being bullied in school, I escaped into books and the tastes of high fat and sugar foods.

From Phoenix1401

I overeat when I'm bored, sad, lonely, mad and stressed. I grew up as a only child with a emotional, verbal and physical abuse enviroment and food was always there to calm me down. I worry alot and I keep my emotions inside because I dont want people to view me as weak person and I dont want people to worry about me because I'm always the strong person I'm the person people run to for advice and they tell me how they feel. Sometimes I wish I could do the same but I'm scared because I dont trust them enough I always think someone can twist my words or backstab me....*sigh*

Wow, thank you for sharing this. I often feel the same way. Distrustful of people and their motives. I often feel painfully vulnerable when I open up to others. I frequently feel like they don't really care about what's going on with me, though I've spent many hours consoling and advising them on their issues. One of the resolutions I've made in deciding to (once again, but in a different way) start this journey to health was to distance myself from users and form a community of support and reciprocity around myself. That is one of the main reasons I joined this and other groups. To share, express myself, get help, and give help to others who can relate to me.

I can relate to sooo many of these posts. At the moment, I'm a stress eater. I'm at home w/ my 3 kids (14, 5, and 4) and it seems someone is always bugging/fighting/screaming/whining/begging. It's hard, but I'm trying to reach out to people to talk instead of going for chocolate or cookies. I'm trying to do something about the actual problem instead of eating to just make myself feel better. I'll be starting nursing school in the fall, so I'm hoping to get a handle on some of this by then.
Anyone can feel free to add me, just send me a note
Steph

I over eat when I'm stressed. I also use to be really bad at it when getting compliments from men. Because my thinking g was if I'm too big you wont like me therefore. You can't hurt me. I know that sounds crazy bbecause all at the same time you wanted to be found sexy. I know by now your looking so confused. Lol don't be. It stems from all the abuse I went through as a child an teenager. Now howeits usually if I'm having a bad day or just stressed out badly.

I overeat when......
Im sad
Im angry
Im happy
Im lonely
Im bored
Im stressed
Im at a party
Im at a family get together
I want to make myself feel better
Ive accomplished something, overeating is like a "treat"

So yeah....I think thats pretty much it!

Ditto! It's so easy to come up with excuses to eat, isn't it? I'm always telling myself "you deserve this little treat because..." Well, when I do that all the time it's not a treat anymore, it's a bad habit!

When I'm happy, I eat as a celebration. Yes, of course I can have 2nds (3rds, 4ths) today. Something good happend, this is a celebration!

When I am at family gatherings, I eat to blend in. Everyone around me is eating a second plate. I should too. It doesn't matter that I'm no longer hungry, I don't want to be the odd one out.

When I am bored, I eat to give my hands something to do with my hands. I'm relaxing, I should be doing something. Eating something sounds like the best way to take care of this!

When I'm sad, I eat because I gain temporary comfort. Food would never hurt me. Food would never betray me. Food would never intentionally hurt me. Food is unconditional. Food is a constant. Food is always there for me.

The other big one is kind of hard for me to explain. I look at myself in the mirror after a shower or some other point when I am naked and get disgusted with what I see. I acknowledge that it is a result of my binging, emotional eating, and general overeating, and then when I am presented the a situation where a binge is possible, I sit there, I think about the different options I have, and then I decide to go ahead and binge, because that's what I do, that's who I am. I will never be anything more than that, and if I were to completely stop partaking of these overeating opportunities, I would sort of lost a part of my identity. It's really stupid and whiny, and even typing this all out, I am embarrassed. I am sure I sound ridiculous. I overeat because I overeat.

Stress, mostly. And if I see something staring at me and saying "eat me". But I try to not do it anymore.

I eat when I am stressed and that seems as if always, I was good all the way last night until I had a deadline that I was not able to obtain and had my room mate and son bring me a large fries from McD's not good, that took me way over and no I am depressed because the scale keeps creeping up. When I started here I was weighing 225 and then I went to florida and the only thing to eat was fast food everyday. God give me stregnth today to stay within my goal and make right choices and get some exercise in. Sigh. :frown:

Samantha, this is the same issue for me too Anxiety is hard to deal with

I over-eat due to stress, bordom, when I am upset about something, nervous, and the fact that I live with my Fiance's Parents, if there was a way to define "more than full-blooded italian) that would be his mom. Pasta this, pasta that, sauce this, sauce that, soup this, grains that... I am HORRIBLY surrounded by carbs and there's no running from it.

Any advice on how someone like me (also Italian) to help steer clear from too much carbs? They know I can't continuously eat that kind of meal but they keep doing it anyway. Oh, and I forgot to mention they eat dinner at 7pm or even as late as 9pm, when I'm at the fitness center at 8:30pm-10pm.

S.O.S!! :noway: :ohwell: :sad: :sick:

Amen! lol me too.