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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 1, 2020 23:28:23 GMT
Sunday, 08/02
Day 33 Eliminate Emotional Eating
From Beck: People without a weight problem don’t think to eat to feel better.
Beck says while being upset is uncomfortable we can tolerate negative emotions and they will go away like cravings. She says: …best way to decrease your distress is to respond to your negative thinking and to solve the problem associated with your emotional upset. She points out she covers this tomorrow.
She suggests you use mindset techniques to deal with emotional eating:
Label your feeling. (And tell yourself you’re not hungry.)
Stand firm. (That you will not eat)
Don’t give yourself a choice. (NO Choice!)
Imagine the aftermath of giving in. (How will you feel after you overeat)
Read your Advantages Response Card. (Refocus yourself)
Use behavioral techniques:
Distract yourself.
Drink a soothing no- or low-calorie beverage.
Relax.
How are you with emotional eating?
Do you use mindset or behavioral techniques to handle it?
What other ways do you use to handle it?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 1, 2020 23:28:56 GMT
I have the tendency to say I don't do emotional eating but I do. For awhile my go to when I was upset to the point of crying I would eat bean soup. About 20 minutes later I would still be upset but wouldn't be crying and therefore could deal with the problem. Bonus to bean soup is that I don't overeat on it. Also in the fall and winter with my winter depression I can overeat on carbs for comfort. That can end in a weight gain which I eventually face and cut back on my eating. Things I do to keep me from eating is to exercise, talk things out with myself, have a hot cup of herbal tea, get online, do housework.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 2, 2020 6:30:45 GMT
How are you with emotional eating? A lot better than I used to be! I sometimes wonder if not having the same number of hormones charging around as I did years ago impacts my eating. I used to bake or eat or drink when emotions caught up with me...not so much any more.
Do you use mindset or behavioral techniques to handle it? When I remember and if they do sneak up on me...I try to use techniques to block them
What other ways do you use to handle it? * Soak in the tub with a book * Chat online with a friend * Read a book * If desperate...I might clean?
All of that said...I do my best and if I give in then I track it, think about what happened and what I could have done differently, put it behind me, and move on.
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Post by luvvinlife on Aug 2, 2020 13:09:43 GMT
I don’t do emotional eating at this season in my life..However, I do tend to cruise the cabinets when I’m tired at night. My remedy is to go to bed. I have a new rule about not going beyond my points limit. Most times that helps because it limits the damage.
Like Cathy I used to bake, eat, drink to cope with emotional tides. These days, exercise, phone calls, or journaling have been effective ways to resist emotional eating, especially during the winter when fighting depression.
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Post by lani on Aug 2, 2020 16:04:12 GMT
not having the same number of hormones charging around as I did years ago impacts my eating. Oh, yeah. I'm doing well with emotional eating at the present time, identifying the source of the distress and trying to find some non-food way of dealing with it. Sometimes you just have to go through it and feel the feelings. You won't die. |
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 2, 2020 18:20:58 GMT
Sometimes you just have to go through it and feel the feelings. You won't die. ^This^ I don't eat emotionally that much anymore, but I was thinking about all the TV shows and movies that depict a woman who is stressed out or sad - usually over a guy or a job - and then sits down to eat a tub of ice cream on the couch. Media's instilled that into us as being a normal response to emotions, rather than just feeling them and moving on. |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 2, 2020 19:39:40 GMT
surfgirl, I use to eat in reaction to how my abdomen felt. I feel stress and emotions in my abdomen. This is where the bean soup eating would come in. After I was maintaining for a couple of years one of my cats was dying and I was feeling it in my abdomen. I stopped and asked myself if eating would help the feeling and I thought no it wouldn't so I felt it instead. But there are certain type of upsets if I had one I would eat but I haven't any of them lately. When I eat it is limited healthier food.
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Post by lani on Aug 2, 2020 19:44:27 GMT
TV shows and movies that depict a woman who is stressed out or sad - usually over a guy or a job - and then sits down to eat a tub of ice cream Hah! And they're always thin! |
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 2, 2020 21:38:33 GMT
TV shows and movies that depict a woman who is stressed out or sad - usually over a guy or a job - and then sits down to eat a tub of ice cream Hah! And they're always thin! Right?!? |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 2, 2020 23:54:33 GMT
surfgirl, lani, I keep pints of ice cream in the house for my husband. He can take a pint out, eat out of the pint, leave some and then put it back. I'm somewhat scared that I would consider a pint a single serving, and if I put it back the ice cream would call my name, which is why I stay out of his ice cream. Besides if I got into it I would never hear the end of it. He teases a lot.
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Post by lizlor on Aug 3, 2020 3:39:28 GMT
I’m realizing that any emotional eating I do is because I don’t want to cope with the problem at hand. Learning how to change the problem or viewpoint. Slow work though.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 3, 2020 8:24:28 GMT
I’m realizing that any emotional eating I do is because I don’t want to cope with the problem at hand. Learning how to change the problem or viewpoint. Slow work though. It sounds like you are learning and applying what you learn - that is great!
I am thinking about the ice cream in the freezer and skinny actresses and also this eating thing happening in books. I do know that I used to do the make cookies and eat the dough thing before watching the TV/reading the books with heroines eating their woes away. Not sure it is all inspired by what we see and read. AND I am wondering what would happen if the heroines instead grabbed carrot sticks and a veggie plate and chowed down...not sure it would have the same "comfort" feel as chocolate...not sure why.
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Post by ladymajky on Aug 3, 2020 14:02:28 GMT
I thought about this lesson a lot in the days and weeks after my DH passed. It would have been so easy to seek refuge in ice cream, cookies, ice cream, cake, ice cream and more cookies.
I kept reminding myself that all the eating in the world would not bring him back. I would still be bereaved, and also fat.
I reminded myself that it took 3 1/2 years to lose 60 pounds, and we all know that you can put 60 pounds back on in a single weekend binge. Did I really want to undo 3 1/2 years of hard losing work, and 5 more years of hard maintenance work? Would DH be proud of me for acting like that?
Instead of eating for solace, I pounded the pillows, walked, hugged my teddy bear, and turned to my neighbors and friends for support.
So far, I have kept off the 6 pounds I lost while DH was in the ERs, hospitals, and nursing homes. But every day is another challenge.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 3, 2020 16:19:05 GMT
ladymajky, Hugs. You made some good decisions.
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