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NEW Member Activity One Questions
First I'd like to say Hello. I am Brandy from Georgia. 44 years old, married, and mother of 1 grown daughter. I am currently disabled but working towards starting up a small home business soon. My weight loss goals are to lose at least 80 pounds but am having a difficult time with this. Emotional earing has played a heavy…
Finding Balance: A Support Group for Emotional Eaters
I have come a long way in 316 days since moving into my first apartment. I've lost roughly 55 pounds by forming healthy habits and being consistent. I've failed multiple times within these 316 days, but the difference this time was my mentality. I wasn't looking at this as a sprint but as a marathon, as my own journey in…
A food addict just starting the road to recovery
Hello. My name is Amz and I'm a food addict. It took me a long time to understand this and realize I'm not a person who can eat in moderation without mindful effort. I have been successful in weight loss in the past, but my emotional eating habit has worsened substantially over the last two years. I do not have people in…
Activity Four: Awareness - Your challenge this week
So activity four this week is about putting everything you have learnt from activities 1-3 into practice. For the next week you can only eat when you are 100% sure you are physically hungry. You need to ask yourself each time before eating if you are physically hungry. If you are not 100% sure, wait before eating (or eat…
Activity Two: Awareness - Is it an addiction?
The second activity this week comes again from a free ebook by a doctor that works on emotional eating (available at skrinkyourself.com). Please post answers to the bellow questions Questions 1. Try to pinpoint the times when you were tempted to break your diet or overeat. What were the main causes? Were you anxious or…
states of mind that trigger you.
Been thinking about states that trigger overeating. The ones we think of first are depression, anxiety, loneliness. But there are others that may not come to mind right away - boredom for instance. Not a strong emotion, but still triggering. anger at an individual or self - maybe ashamed because you gave in ... Another…
Activity Three: Awareness - Where did it come from?
The third activity this week comes again from a free ebook by a doctor that works on emotional eating (available at skrinkyourself.com). Please post answers to the below questions Questions 1. Can you identify a time when you began to seek food for comfort? What was happening in your life at the time? If you can’t remember…
Does anyone still use this group?
I'm looking to recharge my MFP experience and was browsing groups. This one looked interesting as I'm a seriously bad emotional eater, but it looks like the last post was almost 2 years ago!
new to group
Hi my name is Katie. I am a emotional eater/ binge eater. i need the help on this challenge to stop the whole emotional binge eating.
I was thinking about possibly restarting this group.
But not making it about 6 weeks, just when you come on here and have time to work through the exercises.
