How do you stop yourself from eating badly when you'e had a hard day,week or month?

I started this year off by losing 7lbs in 3 weeks, and then i had a family disaster whihc knocked me for six and the last thing iw anted to do was eat heathily or even think about calories.

WEirdly exercising has helped me through this time but ive managed t put most of it back on. Im feeling motivated now and am back on track, but everytime something happends, like a nasty cold or some bad news, i just forget about healthly eating.

How do you guys get through it without being bad?

I usually just ask myself whether I want to make the situation worse by  me gaining weight and getting stuck in a spiral of comfort eating, sugar highs and lows that are guaranteed to make me feel even worse!

It hard, but if you continue to eat well and healthily then its one area of your life which is still stable and can help you deal with anything else.

xx

I go shopping!  I know I am doing something nice for me without sabotaging my efforts.  Other girly things that help are getting your hair/nails done, reading a trashy romance novel, and knitting.  When my grandmother died, I sat and knit for hours on end.  It doesn't really matter that I unravelled the thing 20 times--it kept my mind and hands busy.

Good luck, and I hope things straighten out for you

I'm just like you. I have a bipolar teenager. I have just been able to do 6 weeks of dieting and 2 hours of exercise everyday. Than out of nowhere she goes thru a stage that can last 1 day or 1 week or 1 month? Me too that is my hard part sticking to it when the going gets tough. I also stopped smoking last week and every time she goes thru an episode I used to smoke again and eat anything I could. But I realized something this week. We have just been thru a crazy week (I have one of the biggest cold I ever had and my daughter seems to have episodes on top of episodes) and you know the fact that I stopped smoking, I started exercising and eating well it made me stronger mentally. We are going to go thru rough time all are life so we might as well be healthy to go thru it then overweight and depress. You know a problem is only has big has you perceive it. When you take good care of yourself you increase your mental health and strength it makes those moments easier.

So me personally, from now on I plan to remember that the next time I go thru a rough patch. It's not much but I hope it helps a bit. Good luck and congratulation on getting that motivation back. You are on the right track. Keep up the good work and don't beat yourself up when you fall off the track nothing positive comes out of that.

I often can't stop from eating badly when I've had a hard day. Sometimes I just can't deal, and I let myself eat my comfort foods. But winning the battle means having more good days than bad days.

I think the most important thing is to not give up - to continue coming back to eating well. No matter how many times you fall, you have to keep getting back up. That's the real challenge - not being perfect all the time, but being able to bounce right back after you fall. Again and again, as long as it takes. 

I do the same thing. Just now I had 1/2 of a cinnamon crunch panera bread bagel. I'm feeling down and depressed today plus I'm on my period so I've been overeating all week. I'm having some financial troubles and I don't know how I'm going to pull myself out. I need a new job asap and I can't stand the job I have now. This idiot brought in bagels this morning so eventually I just had one. I find that I have more willpower on the days that I'm not down in the dumps.

OMG!! I just did it again. I had the other 1/2 of the bagel and then I had another 3/4 of the bagel that I nibbled on this morning. My stomach was cramping so bad that I said "screw it" and I ate it. Now I will have to go to the gym and burn it off but I don't feel like it because I'm on my frekin period!!! Damn that stupid man for bringing in bagels. I hate him!!!

I too have my binge days and more so lately in winter it seems but I after a couple days of that I feel drained and my stomach is churning and start to feel nausated.  It is than I realize do I want to feel terrible or do I want to eat healthier and feel better.  It is hard to get back to the healthy part of it but I do feel better when I do eat better and work out.  But sometimes you just to need to let yourself take a break from it and not beat yourself up over it.

Hi,

I just found this cool site and I will use some of the info and incorporate it into what I already know works.  I started a "diet" 6 years ago and I could eat whatever I wanted to eat as long as I counted fat grams and carbohydrates.  Nothing more.  I would allow myself to have 10 grams of fat per meal and 30 grams of carbs per meal (three meals a day).  I could choose to eat all of my carbs in one meal or spread them out...either way I was only allowed to have 90 total carbs for each day and a total of 30 grams of fat per day.  You decide what you want to eat.  Tuna was top on my list because I could eat alot of it and get full.  And in 2 months I lost 25 pounds and my bf, lost 50 pounds. Men lose faster than women.  I also noticed that the first week I didn't lose anything but stuck to it... second week.. weight started coming off and I noticed that fat goes in greasy and it comes out greasy as well so when you notice a change in the bathroom then you are losing weight.  3rd week... platued again .. 4th week started losing again and from there it didn't stop.  When I got hungry I would look at myself and say 1st you have plenty of food on your body now.. you dont' need it and secondly I would tell myself all day.. you're not hungry.  However, I smoke cigarettes so it is a wonderful appetite suppresant... Perhaps if you just got one of those hard pretzels and just sucked on it rather than chewing it up all at once it may help you.  I know my method worked previously for me and my bf and so I'm going to use my method and use the food calculator here to help me find out what carbs and fat grams are in the foods so when I go to the store I won't have to spend extra time reading labels.  Campbells chicken noodle soup was another one of my favorites.  Low in fat and carbs !!  Anyway, as they say "Think Thin"  It really works .. psyche yourself out.. tell yourself you are not hungry ... I would actually say outloud.. I hate food  !  I hate food !  and my cravings would go away and I lost the weight in 2 months !  Once you lose 25 or 30 pounds and feel better .. you'll want to keep going.. hang in there !!!

one meal at a time.  i find that eating well makes me want to eat well, so i start with breakfast and go from there.  a trip to the grocery store for good, fresh foods helps, too.  cook up some good stuff for the freezer, and i'm ready to go.

great, great advice, everybody!

single mom, here, mom200, so really appreciate how you hold it together! I also find I benefit from getting stronger mentally! you are right on on that!