painter09's Journal

I think we all get bad days when we just feel like eating for not reason, especially in the winter AND holiday time. =(

It'll be okay though. Don't deprive yourself any tomorrow and just pick up where you left off yesterday. *hugs* You can do it!

I hope that today is better for you!

Hey painter...we all have bad days. The trick is to forgive yourself and, like tincognito said, start again tomorrow.

I actually use those feelings as a way to prevent me from binging. When I just can't stop thinking about some yummy food in the fridge, I SERIOUSLY think about how I will feel AFTER I eat it. I know I will feel ashamed and disgusted. I hate those feelings.

So, instead of heading to the fridge, I put on my workout DVD or go for a walk and congratulate myself for preventing those feelings. And, if all that fails, I will get myself a teensy-weensy piece and sit down with a HUGE glass of water and SLOWLY eat. It gets rid of the craving and I feel proud that I could control myself. You turn the craving into a test that you passed with flying colours!

I hope you are feeling better today. *hugs*

as above, just write that day off. Maybe try to figure out what is behind the emotional need to eat - what is upsetting  you. You dont have to answer publicly. For me emotional eating is a way  to comfort myself when I feel bad about something. Try to analyse what that bad feeling is - who/what is causing it? Try writing it down on a piece of paper - or talking to a trusted friend or councillor. The binging could be a sympton of something deeper rather than just a problem on its own. Maybe once you face the underlying problem the urge to eat will lessen? You may also want to have an action plan to help cope with any future bad days. How about have a bubble bath with some nice music and candles. Or snuggle in to bed with a good book. Give yourself a facial - anything that you can think of that will make you feel better without it being food. Sometimes you mind just reaches for the thing it thinks of first which is usually a built in habit so try something new and maybe next time you wont auto matcially think of food first. Right enough blabbering now!