I eat & eat & eat but I am not even hungry !!!!!!!!!!

I just ate a 1500 calorie meal (junk food) after a 2500 calorie day and i wasn't even hungry and it was disgusting and oily ... i didn't enjoy it at all but i just kept on eating...

i am so stressed since i have so much work and i couldn't even go out in the weekend because of the work...

i seriously feel so bad now... did anyone have similar experience?? what did u do ?

I used to worked in the hight tech industry as an engineer and manager of an Ultra Pure Water Plant.  Stress and long hours took their toll.   I would do the same thing you just described.  Eat for no reason.    And of course I was not prepared when the cravings would hit so I would go the the cafeteria and buy the junk or hit the vending machine.   It was ironic because before I became and manager I used to go to the gym every day after work and power lift.   But I ate garbage.  

What I did not realize was I was dehydrated really bad.  I would mistakenly eat.   Well to finish up this comment before it gets too long winded.....   I finally learned in just the past year about how most people are dehydrated and they don't know it.  SO what they do is eat!  THey eat when they aren't hungry because they are thirsty.    By the time they really start to think their thirsty they are already dehydrated.  Not good. 

They don't know that they are craving water.    Now many of them drink coffee, tea, pop, but those things act cause you to loose water so you become more dehydrated.   SO if your eating all the time and stressed you might be craving more water.   It's got to be water that is not acidic.   Carbonated water is acidic so it will again not be very effective.     It should also not be RO (Reverse Osmosis) water either.   In some parts of Europe RO water is considered hazardous to your health.  For good reason - it has to little in it and there for pulls minerals from your body and you end up flushing them down the toilet.  

Drink good water and snack on some vegetables and some fruit.   These also have water in them plus fiber.   Some people also find that if they chew sugar free gum (only with Xylitol for sweetner)   they then take care of the need to chew on something.      By the way water helps your body deal with stress.  Sipping water is a good way to decompress some.   But get plenty of water and see what happens.     Warning:  You will visit the rest room more often but hey if you urine is dark now then you are definitely needing water.  SO when you urinate check the color of your urine.   If it is clear your doing well.  If it is not clear - get some water into you body.      P.S.  Don't store water in plastic containers.    

Yes, I've done that before so many times. You're not alone. It scared me because I wanted to stop, but I couldn't. I ate a whole jar of almond butter before or a huge family size bag of caramel popcorn and one time it was about 10 fudgsicles at once.

What I find helps me is to think about the calories I am eating in terms of something else. So when I am having 500 calories of chips I don't even like and that don't even fill me up, I think to myself first: this is so not worth it! I could be having an enormous bowl of oatmeal, like 20 or 30 strawberries depending on how big they are, and a cup of yogurt! These chips are costing me my breakfast calories tomorrow! 

That makes me stop usually.

yuyie! this just happened to me yesterday! and i felt horrible! I must have an a bad chocolate & sweets craving because it started with just one cookie and downward spiraled into like 10 cookies and chocolate bars and pudding and candy.. it was NOT good. and of course I felt disgusted and upset and even MORE stressed afterwards. I get really upset after binges like that and I know the uncontrollable feeling. it seems impossible to stop; so sometimes, I just try not to even let it start.
I knew I had to make up for it today and when i felt a bad craving coming on, i took a quick 10-15 minute walk or ran some errands, just to get out AWAY from the temptations and get my mind and body moving elsewhere.
We can't do much now, after the binge, but the best thing to do is to keep them from happening again! One day at a time