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if i have a bad day or something sucks i just eat, never ever do cope a different way...i used to be soo opposite and now some days i just freaking binge and feel te4rrible..then of course i saw ok tomorrow ill do better...a few days of good go by and then BAM another bad day..this is driving me soo crazy and it makes me freaking miserable!! WTF anyone else this happens too...its like my goal is right there and i keep running backwards away from it!! :(
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You have goals and you are working towards them, so try not to be too hard on yourself. Habits like that are hard to beat. The important thing is just to move on as soon as you can.
Sometimes it's not even emotion-related. I just eat something because "eating is what I do" or "i'm passing the kitchen" or "whatever"
I've taken advice from a sketch that I think was on Mad TV..maybe SNL.. with Bob Newhart.. He's a psychiatrist and the patient is saying something along the lines of "I'm terrified of being sealed in a box, I eat uncontrollably, I'm always saying things that I don't mean.."
and Bob Newhart's advice is simply "Stop it"
When the patient protests this simple advice.. he changes it to "Stop it, or I'll put you in a box"
It's a good sketch.
And.. good advice :)
When I catch myself reaching for something to eat that I know I don't need, I know I'm not hungry for, and I know that I wont even derive any pleasure from it.. I tell myself "stop it" (or sometimes "Stop it or i'll seal you in a box")
I make myself some herbal tea instead. Or drink some water.
After doing this for a while, it's seeming like the tea or water calms down the compulsion pretty nicely.
Sometimes I get into full blown arguments with myself in the kitchen.
"stop it. no. what do you want the pretzel for? are you hungry? No! are you trying to sabotage your diet? is that pretzel really going to be sooo good that it's going to be worth sabotaging your diet for? No! can you really not wait an hour until dinner? are you doing this just because you live on your own now and mom isn't here to tell you that you can't have a pretzel before dinner? Well your mother had a good point! Just walk away from the kitchen..and instead of empty calories.. you'll get a nice feeling of will power and pride.. there you go.. walk away.. here you go, now strut, because you resisted that darn pretzel.. yeah!"
Then sometime I can not eat I go with out eating until my sugar drops and I have to eat, I just can't make myself eat, it is really strange, how sometimes I can't stop eating, then other times, I can't eat I put the food in my mouth and just have a hard time chewing and swallowing.
Thinking about it made me have to check youtube. this is the bob newhart sketch on youtube :)