is it emotional eating?

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KateMac
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is it emotional eating?

Post by KateMac » Fri Dec 12, 2008 11:54 pm

I keep finding myself wandering into the kitchen and browsing. It's like being in a bookstore. Sometimes, I've eaten something without actually thinking about it. Yesterday was my first successful day of No S. It's late afternoon now and I might make it through a second day. But I'm wired and cranky and awfully distracted.

How do you all distract yourself from the desire to eat and the habit of just eating?

blueskighs
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Post by blueskighs » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:54 am

KateMac,

I pull myself away and "force" myself to focus on something I "need" to do or something I "want" to do ... other than eating that is :D depending on the time of day ... if I should be working than I need to be working and I re-focus myself on that until I am absorbed ... then mysteriously the urge to eat feeds, if I need to be doing something other than work ... errands, tasks, household chores, I conciously refocus on that, again .. within a relatively short amount of time 10 to 20 minutes I will be absorbed and mysteriously "forget" about eating, if I am in leisure time, I find something else I want to do besides eating and once again "refocus" until I am absorbed and that urge to eat has mysteriously faded,

Blueskighs
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howfunisthat
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Post by howfunisthat » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:26 pm

My most difficult moments are between 3:00 and 5:00 and I still find myself opening the cupboards or looking into the pantry and wondering if I need some food.

One thing that helps me is knowing that if I snack I have to declare it a red day. Most of the time I realize quickly that it's not worth blowing a perfectly good gren day by eating a snack I really don't need. Charting my progress on HabitCal has been a huge help to me.

I also agree with what Blueskighs wrote....sometimes I just have to get busy doing something else. There are plenty of things on my daily to-do list, but I often have to force myself away from the kitchen (I'm a stay-home homeschooling mom), and back to a different room in the house. I say outloud, "Back away from the food...back away from the snacks." It's silly, but I works for me. It's as if I'm so conditioned to eat whenever & whatever I want, that I have to recondition myself to keep busy elsewhere.

Hang in there KateMac. You can do this...you really can!

janie
Nothing worthwhile is ever easy...

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