Emotional eating

[kbrittany 1]

How do you deal with it? How do you turn off your switch?

[Krestel 330]

Gah! I don't know. I got some of my hunger back and seem to be backsliding after just 4 months due to really bad stress from my new job. Thank gawd for my dogs though. I get up with them at 5am and go for an hour walk in the mornings before work. I think this helps me keep sane. So I listen to my dogs in the morning and can't help but get caught up in their happiness.

[New&Improved 1,780]

Eat Protein first... Otherwise find a hobby. Do a puzzle or go for a walk or study

[SorryNameTaken 85]

I often time find exercise to be the very best option for handling emotions and curbing emotional eating, specifically something pretty high energy, a dance workout video, even Wii Sports, just something fun that requires my brain to be paying attention to it instead of what is bothering me. Other things would be calling a friend, reading silly articles on buzzfeed, playing with my pets, essentially anything to keep my brain busy, that's the real key.

[rs 1,473]

Following. Still a struggle for me, over a year post-sleeve.

[summerset 5,265]

On 10/15/2019 at 9:13 PM, kbrittany said:

How do you deal with it?

Sometimes I eat emotionally, sometimes I don't. Today was a very stressful day, late lunch with 20 h IF, lots of mentally and partly also physically demanding work, coming home at half past eight in the evening, being called 10 min after coming home and still being on-call until tomorrow 8 AM...

You know what? I'm eating emotionally right now and I give a damn about it because I'm tired as ****.

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How do you turn off your switch?

No idea and I don't think it's possible. Everyone I know eats emotionally at least now and then - it's just a matter of how often people do it if they're doing serious damage or not and how much they usually eat.

The best bet seems to be to learn that you don't have to eat because you feel certain feelings. It might feel in the beginning like you NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT RIGHT NOW. However, you'll discover soon that this is absolutely not true. No fool-proof 100% method (see above) but for me it works.