Emotional eating

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Registered: 09-02-2004
Emotional eating
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Tue, 12-27-2005 - 5:10pm

Has anybody been successful with overcoming emotional eating and how did you do it?

Through the last lousy years of our marriage and the custody fight, I have gained a bunch of weight through self-medicating with food. I know I eat for emotional reasons, but how do I stop? I'm a smart woman, I know what the right choices are, I just can't seem to leave the fattening foods alone. I find eating to be the most comforting feeling in the world right now.

Now that most of the emotional upset seems to be behind me, I'm starting to think of the future...no man wants a woman who is 40 lbs overweight and I'm short--I look like a bowling ball with legs! I do have hypothyroidism for which I take medication. Diabetes (no current signs of it for me) and heart disease runs in my family, so I do have a medical reason to want to improve my health.

I am feeling so much healthier emotionally and now want to get more fit physically.

Do I need to go to a therapist? Do I need to join a gym or do a specific diet group? I find I'm a lousy dieter--can't keep to the rules of it. I loathe having somebody telling me what to do. Hah, that's part of how I got fat in the first place.

Anybody have suggestions?

I did send the kids over to their Dad's with the leftover Christmas candy and cookies--good choice.

Cupcake

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Registered: 09-02-2004
Fri, 12-30-2005 - 1:59pm

Good suggestions, Thanks! And I found that support board, too!

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