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How To Break The Vicious Circle Of Emotional Eating — 8 Comments

  1. I don’t know if this helps but when i feel like eating because i’m bored, stressed or emotional, i sometimes cook something savory for me and the family. Something that takes me a long time to cook. Then when i sit down i feel like eating slowly and savoring it. I think the cooking releases stress plus if it took me a long time to make than i feel like i want to savor every bite.

    I know this may seem hard for some people but if you don’t have processed snacks in the house and only have fruits, veggies, nuts, yogurt than you are less likely to gorge on food when you are emotionally stressed or depressed.

    • Hi Annie,

      By the sound of it, you have a very healthy relationship with food:
      – savoury food
      – enjoying cooking
      – cooking for the family and not just yourself
      – savouring the food you’ve prepared

      That’s brilliant and something to aspire to. I especially love the fact that, for you, cooking is stress-relieving. I think that’s the key point. If you can manage to relieve stress through something else than over-eating food (it doesn’t have to be cooking – sport, relaxation, …), you can regain that healthy reationship with food.

      Thanks for your comment and take care
      Isabelle

  2. Hi Isabelle,

    I can relate to this topic because I am an emotional eater. What sets me apart though I believe is that it has to take something drastically horrible to happen in my life for this to kick in. For instance, I’ve only implemented this three times in my life.

    1. When I got divorced.
    2. When I knew I would never have children.
    3. When my Dad passed away.

    The odd thing is that when I got divorced I actually went the opposite way. I didn’t eat and I lost like 20 pounds. The other two instances I gained about 30 pounds each time because the pain was too great. Forcing myself to take other measures was not even in my path.

    I did get the weight back off each time so stress and just being upset doesn’t trigger this for me. It has to be something major so I’m just blessed that it hasn’t happened more often.

    Great post though and good suggestions. Glad to know people suggested this topic because I know it affects a lot of people.

    ~Adrienne

    • Hi Adrienne,

      Thank you so much for your comment and sharing your experience.

      I completely understand the not eating reaction. That’s how I get affected too. That’s what happened to me when my fiance broke our engagement, I lost my grand-dad and my cat – all in the space of 3 months. My world fell apart. I just didn’t have appetite for anything. It took some time to rebuild my confidence and start loving life and food again. Then, of course, the weight came back -a bit more than I’d lost- but, by then, I’d found love again and I was happy in my body.

      I’m very impressed that you managed to lose the 30 pounds you’d put on twice. Well done for that! Was it hard?

      Best wishes
      Isabelle

      • I’m so sorry to hear that it’s happened to you as well Isabelle. Not a good feeling is it.

        Wow, all three events within a three month period. That had to be so hard and my heart goes out to you. I would have been over the edge girl. Life sure can be challenging at times can’t it?

        When I put my mind to something, no one can stop me. After I finally got through all the pain and was unhappy with myself for having gained all that weight, I made the decision to take it back off. I just cut back on what I ate and it was gone in no time at all. I’m very focused when I put my mind to something. I just don’t want to be overweight.

  3. Thank you very much for writing this article I am going to do exactly what it says and I will report back in a while to let you know what my progress is. It feels lovely that you wrote this in response to my request.

    Thank you again x

    • Hi Debbie,

      as Isabelle says, you’re most welcome & thanks for your feedback. In case you haven’t already then you might want to consider joining our email list (see the bottom of the page), that way not only will you get a great free e-book (it’s quite comprehensive) but you will then be able to respond to any of the emails you get in case you’d rather ask questions that way (otherwise feel free to just continue using the comments section).

      In any case I hope the above advice helps in some way and best wishes,
      Alan

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