Emotional Eating

Please tell me I am not alone with emotional eating.  It is getting really tough for me and I desparaptely want to lose this weight!  I did it once before (in mania) and I felt so good with all the guilt literally removed from my body.  I have about 35# to lose.  Ick.

I went online before breakfast and googled for ideas.  I ended up taking Klonopin and waiting.  Yup, the empty feeling passed and I forgot about food completely.  Now I am actually HUNGRY and going to eat some breakfast.  It's a first victory.

I don't know how to fix this.  I know it's going to take a lot.  I wrote down some journaling prompts that might work through this.  It was journaling that made it so obvious that I eat emotionally.

Anyone else?

You are not alone!!

I fight with it everyday and I think what keeps me being healthy now is that I know the sweets and wine that I love will only make my depression worse. I know for me that once I get in a groove which usually takes me a week or two of not eating sweets then I stop the emotional eating.
I will tell you how important it is to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday and have protein at every meal to keep you full.
YOU CAN DO IT!

i emotional eat at nights, at times. but am working on it too. here for ya, jamie.

Tortoise,

Read the book called "Sugar Blues". It is very interesting.

HUgs, Karen

Hi Tortoise: I'm always in the depression forum but your post caught my eye. I have a severe problem with compulsive eating and I haven't been able to help myself. Recently I went back to church (I'm not real religious but am just searching at the moment) and they were advertising a "Getting Light" group. Basically it is going to be a book group reading: "Women Food and God" by Geneen Roth. It is a #1 New York Times Bestseller. She has also written numerous other books on this topic.

The back cover quotes: "The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, transformation and, yes, even God.

I just bought the book and I'm going to start reading today. But I thought I'd toss it out to you.

Cass

Tortoise11,

Hello Sweetie...Boy do I understand what your saying. Last year following my Inpatient stay I came out on a set schedule. Within 3-months I lost weight & was down to a normal weight. I felt amazing, which also helped my Mental Health issues. Then all of a sudden in January I gained 20 pounds in 2-weeks, then continued each month just gaining at least 5-pounds continuously. During the weight gain back in the first several months of this year my intestines were not functioning properly. Needless to say, in May I had an ileostomy...They said I should start losing weight, however I have just continued to gain. In the beginning of the weight gain I was not eating a lot at all...however, since I kept gaining weight when I was eating good foods. I began eating foods not good for you as I just felt it doesn't matter. I am now the largest I have ever been in my life & it scares me. The doctors can't figure out why I keep gaining. My thyroid is fine, all my blood work has come back ok, my Triglycerides were sky rocket at 1072, but I was put on meds & it has come down. With this enormous amount of weight gain it has really affected my mood & Depression in an extremely bad way.

Anywaz, sounds like you have set a realistic goal & kudos to you...Give yourself a pat on the back. Pleez continue to pass on your success stories as we can definitely aspire to do the same. You will be in my thoughts...Smiles & Hugz sent your way.

Your Healingwell Friend,
Serenitee

Bipolar 2, Borderline, Anxiety/Panic Disorder, Ptsd
Loop ileostomy, Pelvic/Bladder Trauma & Dysfunction

yep, just keep chipping away at it and getting back on the horse again and again and again... it is the only way to get there sweetie! xx You ARE going well x

sounds like those storm clouds are dissipating... how lovely that your fiance extended himself just that little... it can make the world of difference :). Still here listening to you xx

I think the rule is I cannot link to another sight, but a site which requires everything you ate to be logged. Helped me.

There is a site called fat secret (i hope I'm not in trouble for listing it). You can use it on your smart phone and computer. Need to stay with it, requires all you eat be logged. amazing how much I eat when I don't keep track of it. And the site is free!

It helped me from the first day I listed that I ate an entire box of saltines, a large bag of pretzels, a box of Count Chocula,a jar of dry roasted peanuts, a bag of bagels, a package of sweet baking chocolate. Oh, and had a six pack of sprite too.

Now I stick to the plan and have lost 20lbs in 6 months. Not great but not bad either.

I was angry and proud of myself. I was going through the fridge, freezer, pantry yesterday and this morning and couldn't find anything worth eating.

I had 7 fillings put in and by the time I was un-numb I was hungry! But didn't eat because I didn't want real food and I haven't had anything junky around.

I am very hungry now, but I have no idea what to eat. We haven't gone grocery shopping for weeks - no bread for sandwiches, no pizza, no leftovers, nothing to make and eat within a lunch break!

I started the day with angry.... a peanut butter rice crispy bar a coworker brought in.

I was so upset! My work is by appointment, and they will schedule next day appointments. Yesterday AFTER I left work, one gal scheduled me for an appointment for this morning, but she didn't call me to tell me about it! So I get a call from our b*tchy (but amazing) receptionist with a snotty attitude "are you going to come in toay because they're right here waiting" ***?! I can't believe she said it in that tone IN FRONT OF THE CLIENT! My fiance (the boss) texted me 20 min later and I left asap. I double-checked and no - no voice text or email messages telling me she scheduled an appointment.

So I ate a peanut butter rice crispy bar.

It was very quiet this morning. I closed the office door when I was in there, but I could still hear them even when they whispered. I knew who did it because of handwriting, I couldn't look at her, didn't talk to her. I did say a few words to the one that was not involved at all. Just "excuse me" "right behind you dear" or "I can take that for you".

My fiance got back from a call and asked "why is it so quiet in here" I said "because I'm not talking to anyone."

*sigh*

I'm cold, stressed out from that stuff at work, stressed out about upcoming tp appointment this afternoon - I haven't been in for months, SICK, tired, ugh.

And I have a big chocolate milk. Not the silly non fat stuff. The cream-added chocolate milk. The good stuff.

*sigh*


oops - I didn't post this! lol. I'm back from everything. Less stressed out now, but even more cold, more tired. My son is finally napping and my fiance is (thankfully still) not home from work. Trying to NOT eat right now.

Tired, crabby.

Couldn't find anything... then scored frozen whole strawberries in the freezer. Made up ... like ... really a lot of smoothie. Just strawberries, milk, sugar.

Could be worse. :/

I think the next time I won't have anything left sweet to eat! Unless my fiance goes grocery shopping without me. Ick. Then he'll come home with all sorts of things I don't want around because I'll eat them!

I wonder if I still remember how to make chocolate pudding.