cath04

Stress Eating

Posted on 03/27/12, 05:45 pm

OK, I've been silent on here for a while, and I'm sorry about that, but I've been trying to fight my own demons and not necessarily winning the battle either. However I was looking at the buddy sign up list for April, and saw quite a few that say they are stress eaters or emotional eaters. At the time of reading that, I was sitting here at the computer at work, stuffing my face with chocolate filled donuts after a really bad day, and I was like yep that's me, stree eater, emotional eater, whatever you want to call it.....feel stressed - feed my face, feel emotinal - feed my face, while it gives me some immediate gratification `less stressed, less emotional' in the long run it doesn't help.......so I decided to do some googling on it, and found these articlse......thought I'd share them......

http://stresseating.com/

hopefully the link will work, if not just copy and paste it into your browser.

This article on about.com was also quite enlightening and useful

http://stress.about.com/od/unhealth...

http://www.medicinenet.com/emotiona...

enjoy

Cath

• Reply #1 03/27/12  9:02pm
  
  serenityspeaks
  this is all I have been doing so I need to read these!
• Reply #2 03/28/12  12:27pm
  
  Ladybug7
  Definitely a battle that a lot of us are fighting, so thanks for sharing this!
• Reply #3 03/28/12  1:47pm
  
  looking2bhappy
  This has been me for the past month and I don't quite understand it. I have had some stress but nothing more than I have had in the past, yet this month it is beating me. I need to get past the need to eat when things aren't going well.
• Reply #4 03/28/12  11:42pm
  
  cleopatra3
  The hardest part of losing weight, Is keeping it off, of course everyone is different. We all don't experience the same problems. One's self-esteem is low and my bad eating habits are hard to change, even though I will admit I've mentally trained myself and I do eat healthier. I'm 43 years old and I'm determined to never be heavy again. Also being single helps with wanting to feel and look beautiful again.
• Reply #5 03/29/12  11:17am
  
  angelajoy
  Thanks Cath for sharing, that is my main & biggest problem right now. I read this and I'm sure I will be going back to read it again.

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