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want to stop emotional eating…need help?
November 28th, 2009 | 
Author: over the past couple months, i have found that i am covering up my feelings by eating (alot). i know everyone says that you have to identify what it is that causes the emotional eating and avoid those situations. I have figured out what is causing it but am unable to avoid it. My family is causing it. I only eat alot around my family, for example, when I am at work I can go 8+ hours without eating anything and be fine. However, when I am around my family I feel like I have to eat alot, possibly to cover up past eating problems I have had. It makes me feel awful and I really want to be able to stop. Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this?
ive tried that but i live with my family (4 ppl in a small house) and that wouldn’t go over very well if they found out what i was doing…
Sounds to me like it’s a combination of different reasons why you eat more than you would like. For instance, I think you binge eat b/c you DO go 8+ hours a day without eating so your body goes into starvation mode and so the next time you eat your body tries to get as much nutrition as possible and store it. Also, like you said you try to compensate for past eating problems.
Don’t let other people (family) make you feel pressure to eat when you’re not hungry. I’ve been through this, I’ve always been a light eater and my family/relatives have made somewhat negative comments in the past and still do. I used to let it bug me a bit, but now I’ve realized it’s only b/c they themselves are unhappy at the fact that they eat more than they would like and they’re not their ideal size.
Try this as a solution, the next time you worry about eating too much, try drinking more liquids (something mostly water based) either water, tea, or maybe juice. It goes through your system faster and it will make you less hungry. Also, try carrying with you a few snacks, maybe yogurt or peanut butter crackers, so throughout the day you can just kind of snack a bit that way your body isn’t going w/o food for extensive periods of time. (it will help, trust me).
Also, if you do feel that you MUST eat with your family do portions that are only the size of your hand (if it can fit in the palm of your hand it’s perfect) and don’t eat until your full; that way if you HAVE to go back for dessert or seconds later on you will still have room.
BUT most importantly don’t let other people put pressure on you and don’t try to please them b/c it will only make yourself miserable. Keep your chin up!!
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eat it and then vomit it all back up straight away then you can eat as much as you want.
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Many people often eat in response to feeling sad, anxious, depressed or lonely. Come up with substitutions for emotional eating. For example, take a walk, call a friend, engage in a hobby or do anything else that can distract you from wanting to eat. It also helps to replace unhealthy comfort foods with healthy ones and practice portion control. You don’t need to completely give up foods that comfort you, just eat less of them. Also get more comfortable with yourself especially around your family! Good luck!
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stay active when ur at home with ur family to avoid extra eating. if your doing something(that might even take the place of the eating instead) then it will keep ur mind off the food and still put ur mind on something else.
also when u know ur going in for extra food u dont need, brush ur teeth or chew gum instead.
hope this helps!
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First, there is no diet that works long term. For now, the weight your body decides on is pretty much it. Exercise probably has a lot more to do with your weight than your food. Exercise you can stick with and learn to make it a part of every day. Food you really can’t do too much about.
Chug more water, exercise, try carrots.
Carrots are actually not bad and emotional eating is mostly like chewing your fingernails, so it does help.
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I have the perfect thing dude,gum,gum,gum and more gum, when your sad or something pop in some cotton candy bubble gum and it gives your brain the sensation of eating without you eating, plus blowing bubbles makes me happy. and when your with family do they same, if they are like, arent you gunna have some more be like nah i dont eat that much any more, chew gum and always have some on hand, or have a few hard candies on hand, usually gum works better, hope this helped, it did for me, bye
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I bought a book. I know, there are a million diet books out there. But this has helped me slowly stop doing this to myself. Check it out, it takes time. There is no quick fix to this problem.
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=lose+it+for+life&tag=yahhyd-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=18298147011&ref=pd_sl_703lqrlbub_b
This isn’t a bunch of garbage, it’s straight up, easy to read and understand information. The more you learn about your habits, the more you can do to change them. Good luck.
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Sounds to me like it’s a combination of different reasons why you eat more than you would like. For instance, I think you binge eat b/c you DO go 8+ hours a day without eating so your body goes into starvation mode and so the next time you eat your body tries to get as much nutrition as possible and store it. Also, like you said you try to compensate for past eating problems.
Don’t let other people (family) make you feel pressure to eat when you’re not hungry. I’ve been through this, I’ve always been a light eater and my family/relatives have made somewhat negative comments in the past and still do. I used to let it bug me a bit, but now I’ve realized it’s only b/c they themselves are unhappy at the fact that they eat more than they would like and they’re not their ideal size.
Try this as a solution, the next time you worry about eating too much, try drinking more liquids (something mostly water based) either water, tea, or maybe juice. It goes through your system faster and it will make you less hungry. Also, try carrying with you a few snacks, maybe yogurt or peanut butter crackers, so throughout the day you can just kind of snack a bit that way your body isn’t going w/o food for extensive periods of time. (it will help, trust me).
Also, if you do feel that you MUST eat with your family do portions that are only the size of your hand (if it can fit in the palm of your hand it’s perfect) and don’t eat until your full; that way if you HAVE to go back for dessert or seconds later on you will still have room.
BUT most importantly don’t let other people put pressure on you and don’t try to please them b/c it will only make yourself miserable. Keep your chin up!!
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