Emotional Eater Club

I don't know about you guys but I'm an emotional eater and I think we need to support each other.

I'm hoping to have around 10 people ages 20-30 that would like to join.

It would be nice to share our stressful days and let it out here instead of eating our problems away.

female

24

married

mother of 1

I eat when I'm depressed,happy,stressed,bored and anything else you can think of.

 

 

Depressed:  Make a phone call to a friend.  Get up and out of your house; take a walk at the mall - in the park.  Read something that makes you laugh - or inspires you.  It's easy to avoid food - don't think of it as your 'answer'.

Happy:  Do the same thing as depressed, except LAUGH LOUDER - tell a friend why you're feeling so happy.  You don't need to celebrate your happiness with eating food.  We eat to live; not live to eat - and celebrations involving food are the product of the media.

Stressed:  Get into the bath-tub; a candle - some great music, and soak that stress away.  Pull the plug on stress; then get up, put on a little light perfume, and read a book about how to relieve stress (and it never tells you to eat food).

Bored:  Don't be bored!   You can control the boredom; there is SO MUCH to see and do today.  You have so many options that include not only exercise of the body, but of the mind.

Think of your interests.  Do you read?  Do you like to play trivia?  Do you remember a few facts about 'something', and want to refresh them?  Go to Google - search; learn, and get 'engrossed', and you won't be bored.

Remember, boredom is for the boring.....

Diane

Thanks for the great post to get us started.

I wish it was that easy to just stay away. If it was then I would be one skinny girl :)

It will be nice to have your post to remind us of things we can do. There are lots of good suggestions in it. Thanks

hi id like to join the group!! (BUT HOW?) lol. Anyways:

female

22

married

mother of 2

I also eat for the same reasons! Also...b/c food tastes soooo good!!

Hi Country_lyrics

welcome to the group :)

This is my first time starting a group, so I think what we do is just keep this form up and post often and help each other.....

we'll do that and see how it works. 

well..we could attempt to come here and perhaps vent a little before giving into the craving to eat the entire pizza!  :-)  i had one of those nights - i have a cold, my fiance is at the begining of a very long deployment...blah blah.  i did not eat much today because of the respiratory thing i am dealing with and then all of a sudden i was having a urge to consume a huge bowl of pasta.  i was able to eat some miso soup, take a bath - i think i have it under control now.

Hi Bitter_buffalo!

that's great that you had some soup and took a bath instead of eating the pasta. I always feel like if i'm sick then that means i should eat whatever i want, but that attitude has none nothing for me, so i'm really trying not to have days where i feel my mood should make me over eat.  I know I'm not going to lose any weight if i eat for any other reason then i'm hungry and then stop when i'm not longer hungry.

Does anyone have a set a mount of weight to lose?

I want to lose about 30-40lbs

right now my pant size is 12 and i want it to be 7 :) 

omg I want in! The only reason I started coming on this site was to look for inspiration (and distraction..) to avoid bingeing and emotional eating. I'm 19, struggle with a cycle of depression and overeating or doing better and therefore better nutrition! I would love support and def can encourage other peoples in the group-this will be our support line!

 

A Few sites worth looking at

 

http://www.seekwellness.com/nutrition/how_to_ overcome_emotional_eating.htm

http://hubpages.com/hub/Help_for_Emotional_Ea ters ;

http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/ov ercoming_emotional_eating

http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/diet-fitn ess/the-diet-plan-emotional-eaters.html

(edit: added more sites) 

Hi Katergater!

welcome

I also struggle with depression, which causes me to eat even more cause of my mood it's a crazy cycle. so post when you want to, when you feel  depressed and want to eat and you're not hungry. Also post your success, like when you didn't eat something even though you wanted to. 

 

hey, id really like to join this group too...the reason i put on a lost of weight is because im an emotional eater too...its so bad, i cannot stop myself usually when im upset, bored, stressed you name it ill eat! its something ive been battling with for 4 years now and ive decided this is the year i get it under control!

 

i just turned 20 today! just about to go for a birthday lunch with friends!

 would really like to have a support group like this one, where people understand! 

How weird is this!  I was just telling my sister, whom is living with me at the moment, that I noticed when I'm stressed, not just your everyday I need a coffeebreak stress, but frazzley stress, I head straight for the cabinets.  At least my choices are sensible like pretzels, animal crackers, 100 cal packs.  She says to me "yeah I noticed and wanted to say something, your good until something gets under your skin."

So anyways here I am.  Lets make this good.  My name is Jenn, and I'm an emotional eater!  Tee  Hee.  I'm 33, 4 rugrats age 1 to 12, I'm married, and my brother and sister live with me. No partridge in a pear tree but a gorgeous lop ear bunny named "Stewy".

I'm 22 and realized the other day that I still struggle with this, after around 25 days of not binging I really fell apart friday night when I came home from work @ 10pm to an empty house and no phone calls...well i let that weak moment get the best of me and went on a chaotic binge.  However, last night I was strong and I didn't get anything when my roommate pulled into sonic last night.  I normally wouldve gotten the reeses sonic blast...but I resisted.  I hope to beat my 25 day run this time around..beat it a 100 times over.

Welcome j-fizz, jjlewis305 and healthnuttie!

It's good to have you guys join the group. This is my first group so I'm not sure what plans or goals we can set for our selfs, so i'm open for any suggestions you might have...maybe a challenge or something???? let me know what you guys think. 

Well, apparently I'm an emotional eater as well! Lol, I just totally binged on chocolate (yet again) and peanut butter and rice cakes. I'm in my senior year of high school, and I'm just so stressed out right now about exams and my grades and whether or not they are going to be good enough to get into university. Ugh.

Back to studying, hopefully I won't binge again tonight. (Although, I know I probably will.)

Hey colorblind

Welcome to our EEA - Emotional Eaters Anonymous group.

Don't be too hard on yourself, high school is hard for everyone but we all made it through and you will too. You said you binged on chocolate,peanut butter and rice cakes....the good news is that peanut butter and rice cakes aren't bad for you- peanut better has lots of protein and rice cakes are low in fat and calories.

I guess us emotional eaters have to learn to love things like baby carrots and cucumber so when we over eat it's not too bad.

good luck on your exams 

ok...today is day 4! DAY 4! haha maybe for some that's nothing...but for me it's amazing b/c I haven't been restricting! I've had a lot of good calories and even desserts! O man though, today is SO hard you guys---I can feel that horrible-no-good urrrrge. I think I'll make it-I'll let you know tomorrow! good luck!

omg omg omg omg, can I join?

Emotional eater should be like my middle name....lol

I'm 18, freshman in college. Sorry not in your 20-30 range, don't reject me! hehehehehee :)

I try sooo hard to be good, but when I just break down crying; my tissue seems to be chocolate pudding and peanut butter...lol.

What are some ways you guys are trying to be able to deal with your emotional eatting?

Lately I've been forcing myself to the gym, especailly easy since its downstairs, to go for a quick unplanned jog. Plus I quit trying to trust myself with cookies in the dorm...no matter how often I try...I'll be good for a few days then yea...something happens and tada no more cookies. hehehe

Best of luck everyone!!! :)

Hope your Sundays were good, and your mondays are going to be healthy :) hehe

at the moment i have been doing great for the past two weeks, i havent ate emotionally once..the only reason i havent is because if im feeling upset, stressed or bored or something i acknowledge and allow myself to feel the emotion, and if somethings bothering me i will try and write it in my journal or in a forum! also i am so determined to break the pattern, and i know that as i start seeing myself lose weight, ill feel so much better about myself! already im starting to see a difference and its been 2 weeks. 

 

i will literally eat chocolate if im depressed, i cannot stop myself! its a mechanical thing i dont really understand, its like i know i shouldnt. also the more depressed i feel about my body the worse i eat! which isnt good.

 

so instead of buying choclate to snack on when im peckish ive stocked up on grapes, apples and satsumas and i allow myself to eat one amazing naughty thing a week, so i will go out and especially buy a really yummy peice of cake which is a 'treat' for being good during the week and going out...so far its really working. plus the gym is awesome to work things out if your stressed angry or upset! 

I first off start to eat when im bored...then I get mad at myself for eating when I didnt need to so then I just keep eating and say "oh whatever Ill start fresh tomorrow" and binge like mad and eat whatever I want and then I get all depressed and just got to sleep. I did this last night and at about 10:00 I ate

-3 cookies and a glass of milk
-a few mouthfuls of fetuccini alfredo
-2 pieces of toas one with almond butter one with cream cheese
-then I took the spoon to the almond butter and had about 3 tbsp
-cereal dry just sat there with the box
-then I had granola cereal with yogurt
-a bit of ice cream

aahh but Im starting fresh today like i said I would.
this is why I maintain Im good for a few days lose a couple pounds...and gain it back in one night.

sometimes i get depressed and take the jar of peanut butter out and start eating it, I always buy it and say "this time is different" but it never is, so I'm not going to buy peanut butter anymore.......well for now.