Emotional eating...ugh!

[Christine48 0]

Ok this is frustrating for me to admit but emotional eating is my downfall. I get frustrated with something or something upsets me and I eat the things that make me feel better the comfort food the carbs the breads you know I was doing so well up until the last couple weeks I was feeling awful I had gotten sick so I was feeling really bad and ended up throwing my diet off course in a big way I know just feeling worse how do you hear back from that? How do you get over the emotional eating? Thanks for ur suggestions.

[Healthy_life2 8,327]

@@Christine48

Honestly this is a behavior that you will need to address to be successful. I'm not sure if you are post op. You might want to think about a counselor/therapist to get past that issue. For me I turned to exercise to replace the emotional eating.

I hope you find what works for you,

Jenn

[Nurse_Lenora 903]

The first step you have conquered! You have identified the behavior! That's the most difficult part. Now you need to be very aware of your eating and why and ask yourself am I eating because I'm hungry? Happy? Sad? Frustrated?

If the answer is anything other than hungry and it's an appropriate time and appropriate food to be eating WALK AWAY!

Initially I would walk away and write down what I was feeling and why and then choose some other activity like going for a walk to help give me time to think through and process what I was dealing with that led me to eat.

Good luck, it's never easy but you can conquer this!

[gowalking 10,790]

jenn1 is right. Emotional eating is very hard to change without professional help. I've been seeing a therapist for quite some time in order to work on this issue along with others. You may need to consider this option as well.

[Bandista 7,466]

I'm someone who benefitted from therapy. I was 52 when I had weight loss surgery. It's not as though I hadn't done a lot of work on myself already -- including therapy here and there, all kinds of reading, journaling, etc. This time was different, though, because I was taking such a big step in choosing myself and my healthy future and weight loss surgery was such a big decision. The therapist helped me break down my triggers. It was tedious and I didn't want to do it sometimes but boy am I glad I did. I found that going deeper into the specifics helped me identify exactly what I was doing. I ate to prepare myself for stressful situations, to reward myself for doing something I didn't want to do, out of boredom, joy, sadness, etc. Getting he onion layers pulled away got me realizing just exactly when and how it would happen -- that awareness really helped me not do it anymore. That and having my appetite dimmed. It is wonderful to be out of food jail. I hope you find just the resources you need -- you can do this!

[IncredibleShrinkingMan 437]

If you are still pre-op, get it addressed. You may not cure it, but the surgery will help you muffle it. Without getting help, you are risking the surgery being for naught.

[Christine48 0]

Sorry everyone I just figured out how to access my topic through the app lol will answer all ur responses thank u!