Donna’s post about bingeing really got me thinking about what it is throws my eating into disarray. I don’t usually get food crazy because of just one thing. Instead, my worst behaviour needs both an emotional reason and an opportunity. In no particular order: hormones fear of the unknown – the big picture – like [...]
17Jul10
Why?
I binged yesterday. At first I was going to say that I don’t know why I binged but I think that might not be true. I think that I’m stressed about a number of changes and uncertainties in my life right now and I don’t do well with change and uncertainty. While the idea of [...]
I recently read an article in O magazine about a book by Geneen Roth called Women, Food and God. The book talks about finding the reasons why we eat, not a particularly new concept. After all, practically every book about weight loss talks about finding the reason why we eat. Every time I read an [...]
21Mar10
When Indeed….
Donna wrote this the other day and I’ve been saving it for a post: We have such a strange relationship with food. We know that we can eat quite large amounts of ‘good food’ (veggies, fruits etc) and we can also eat small amounts of ‘bad food’ (chocolate, fast food, wine). Instead of being content [...]
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Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
Tagged emotional eating, stress and eating
16Mar10
Stress and Hunger
This whole battle can be boiled down to what? when? how much? My normal “weight loss” day should look like this: 7 am – noon: 2 mugs of coffee, porridge, mug of tea, banana noon – 6 pm: soup and crackers or cottage cheese and fruit, a couple of clementines, mug or tea 6 pm [...]
12Mar10
Hurdles
There’s good news and bad news. Bad news first: turns out that anger is a very big hurdle when it comes to emotional eating. The good news is that I don’t experience that kind of anger very often. The rest of the bad news is that I encountered and ate my way through an episode [...]
7Mar10
Bugs & Motivation
I am learning that illness makes me not really care about losing weight. Which is a drag because I had hopes of accomplishing something this week in that line – like maybe a pound off. But my coughing (barking) and sore throat make me want to eat whatever’s easiest to prepare and swallow. Last night [...]
I’ve not been writing because I’ve been too busy worrying. Sad but true. I function ok when I’m stressed – unless that stress is caused by worry. That is, caused by something that gets worse rather than better by trying to think it through. I’m not a huge worrier by nature but I’m a persistent [...]
9Dec09
“Take it Easy on Yourself”
My default mode for “taking it easy on myself” is to let myself eat what I want and sit around watching endless tv or burying myself in a book avoiding the responsibilities that are pressing in on all sides. Part of this Talking It Off process is resetting my default modes when it comes to [...]
3Dec09
Discombobulation
Discombobulation is a technical term used by the Talking It Off community to define those times in life when things seem to be irretrievably tied up in knots. After a few weeks of vague illness (an ulcer, perhaps, says my doc) and an inconclusive ultrasound and a booked mri and a flight across the world [...]