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When deadlines are the trigger
When a deadline is the trigger for stress eating, it feels like a double whammy. You have both a desire to eat as a coping mechanism and a recultance to try the find another activity approach to coping with stress, since exercising, taking a bubble bath, playing with your dog, etc. would take crucial time away from your…
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About to binge
Just finished a brutal midterm, which I'm sure will negatively impact my grade, and in the middle of breaking up with my boyfriend. It's taking about all I have to not run down to the store and stock up on all the fatty, sugary things I can find.
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Anyone else battling bulimia?
I have been for 20 years off and on. I started when i was 12. I hope to connect with others who also need the support.
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The opposite of stress eating?
Hi all, I've been reading a bunch of people's posts about stress eating, and I wonder if I'm broken. I stop eating completely when I'm stressed. I head to my comfort foods when I'm sad, but when I'm stressed I don't want food at all. This may seem like a good thing, but I tend to eat too little. So much so that it took a…
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Hello
I just wanted to introduce myself as I'm a new member and am thrilled to have found this site! I look forward to learning from all of you.
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The Open Diary
I decided to leave my diary open, so I could practice honesty with my food. I was/am concerned that it will lead to comparing, judging, restricting, etc. Last week I made a post about being surprised about a food content and was mentally scratching it off of my grocery list. A friend looked at my diary and suggested I…
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College stress as trigger
I don't know why but when I have an important project or test due soon I binge eat. Maybe I do it as a way to procrastinate. Anyway, I am just throwing this out there because I need to learn how to stop. I am hoping starting a topic like this will help. Does anyone have any thoughts?
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I'm not binging! but now I Don't want to eat at all :( help!
Hey I've stopped binging but now I've become a bit obsessed over calories and don't want to eat. Any one else experience this?
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Hi all! New here
Hey everyone! I just joined the group this afternoon and wanted to say hi :) Feel free to add me as a friend if you want. I'm just joined MFP a week or so ago.
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Looking for a buddy
Hi, I'm looking for a buddy, mutual support, occaisional phone call (short), email, text, "don't do it" or "you can do it!!!" Single/widowed professional, mom.. Thanks
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Getting Control of My Compulsive Eating
Over the last week I have been fighting, mostly successfully, with controlling the urge to compulsively eat, and eat, and eat. Today I went overboard, and knowing myself I fear that this is just the start of something worse to come, then just totally fall off the wagon. I hate, more than anything, that I lose control/have…
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Craving Tracker
I use the iPhone and found something today called a Cravings Manager - just downloaded it. I'm using the free Lite version - it isn't anything fancy but it does track food cravings and their triggers. I just wanted to share this as an idea to help with stress eating. I know that tracking my cravings helped me quit smoking.…
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About that Frozen Yogurt
So, is it possible that I am learning the ways of non-emotional eating? On Wenesday I bought FF Frozen Yogurt, there was a deal at Harris Teeter for 2. Last night after I put my sons to bed, I thought I will have some Frozen Yogurt. I grabbed the container and thought back on how before I might have just ate right out of…
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Let's throw out our most comfy shirt
Hi there, I've been on this site almost a year and I have not met one goal I have set for myself. I'm an emotional eater and I eat for comfort...I have my comfort foods and I have my comfy shirt to turn to when I don't want to deal with whatever emotion I don't want to deal with. My comfy shirt is stained, worn, holey,…
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I also eat to stay awake!
I find myself wanting to eat when I'm tired. Working full time with 3 kids doesn't allow me to take a cat nap, so in my stumbling sleepiness, I start grazing......I guess instinctively, I know I can't sleep while I have food in my mouth! :)
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Okay So I'm Stressed Out..Now What?
Excuse my rant: I have once again fallen victim (and I use that word losely) to stress and the result of that led me to shove a BBQ Burger and onion rings into my face at lunch. Heres the killer part, I prepared a healthy lunch last night just to AVOID this happening...and what did I say as I was standing at the…
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EBT App for Stress
I am trying out a new app..just got it today, but thought I'd share it in case there were other stress eaters out there :) It is called EBT: Emotional Brain Training...creator: Emotional Brain Training. Their website is www.ebt.org. I am trying this out and so far...I like it. It gives me something to do to not only keep…
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Delayed Emotional Binge Eating
Hi, everyone. This is my first post here. I am very much an emotional eater, a habit I learned from all the major female influences in my life as a kid, and a habit I have been unable (unwilling?) to stop. I've lost 12 lbs since I began using MFP, and most of that was just from healthy eating. I'm currently going through…
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need a hold on my emotions
Hi there, Yesterday was my daughter's birthday and for the past 2 days I've been living off cake. i was doing so well and i just fall into this place of self pity. I think because even thou i try my best to forget yesterday was also my wedding anniversary and i always relive the pain of that relationship
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I think it's a small victory!
So, I was takiing the kids to get ice cream, they had yogurt bars at home, but that's a different story. Anyway, we have a DQ by the house and I had stressed myself out thinking about somethings that are bothering - so naturally I said, "I think I am going to get the Peanut Buser Parfait." Then something went off in me and…
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I Will Probably Frequent This Group! :)
Hi! I'm a mother of 3 (well, 4, if you count my husband!), 44 years old and I have battled my weight all my life. I successfully lost 75lbs on my own doing a low gl diet, exercise (I was a stay at homer then) and then Atkins for about 4-5 months (as a vegetarian...not easy!) before hurricane Katrina, and vowed I would…
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Back on the wagon
Today is the day that I am climbing back on the wagon. I was on vacation for a week and I always give myself permission to not count calories or stick to a strict exercise schedule while on vacation. However, the week after vacation always kills me. It's like I fall into a mini-depression when I have to go back to work and…
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Confession Time!!!
I became an emotional eater when my relationship with my children's father started. I was already seriously overweight at that time. I would get upset I'ld eat, I'ld get happy that was a reason to eat and celebrate, I was nervous I'ld eat. I've been with my husband for 10 years now and my starting weight was 225 at the age…
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Being Real Here
So, I am an emotional eater. It started at a young age (11) because of some stuff going on. And I am having to deal with his fact even more so now because I am on a medicaiton that supresses hunger. It sounds like a good thing, but I want to do this the healthy way and it's making me a tad nervous, but for now I must…
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Newbie here...I need some serious support.
In the last year I have become an emotional eater. I used to be 130 lbs and food was fuel and that was it. Life threw me 4 family member deaths in a year, plus some other stuff and ever since then I have become a stress eater. I posted my day on my blog if anyone is interested. What I didn't put (because it happened after…
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How often do you weigh in? Does it help/not help?
I noticed a few days ago that I would weigh myself 5-6 times a day- mainly to see what eating or drinking something does to my weight. Mentally I know that when I add mass to myself in the form of food or water, my mass increases for a little while- it does not mean I'm creating fat or muscle. However, I noticed that I was…
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anger eating
Today I was furious about something and went straight to the freezer for ice cream. I knew even as I was doing it what i was doing but that didn't stop me. Anyone else eat when they're mad? How do you stop from following through on this impulse?
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SWEETS
Hi my name is Andrea...I'm new to the group. I'm just going to come out and say it..I have a severe addiction to sweets, mostly bakery goods but every once in a while chocolate. I know that if I could get a handle on it I could actually drop some weight. I just don't know what to do!!!!
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Curb your appetite...
What snack/meal do you eat to curb your appetite? Me: Green Tea w/ lemon Brand: Bigelow Organic Green Tea Cals: 0
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What foods do you downfall on??????
Having emotionally eaten since as young as 6 I have learnt (not always the easy way) what foods I make a bee line for - what I can and can't have in my flat! These usually rear their ugly head after I have had a hard day at work and the diet can "start again" tomorrow...... My usual culprits are often: Pringles....after I…