Emotional Binge Eating

There's an article on tips to curb binge eating. It is again the same old recycled tips and never mentions anything about emotions.

I'm very familiar with binge eating as I've had my share of binging in my life. And what I noticed is that the guilt of binging while I was binging over whelmed my sense of rationality. At first it was like, "OK a little of this won't hurt me." And then it was, "I already ate half of it, I may as well finish it," all the while feeling guilty hoping that I wouldn't repeat the same behavior the next day.
The challenge is to move beyond the guilt and observe the predominate emotion such as boredom and choose to take the emotion straight.

Back to observation. Today I had cereal in milk followed by one egg with a piece of bacon and toast for breakfast. For some reason my significant other made me two eggs and two pieces of toast. I decided to eat only one and save the other for later. No predominate emotion and I ate exactly what I chose.
By 1:00 pm I was bored and stopped in at the local Costco and ate a few samples to dilute my boredom.
By 5:00 pm I was home and finished the other egg, slice of bacon and toast followed by a nectarine. I observed that I was experiencing a sense of accomplishment for the afternoon.
When my significant other arrived home at 7:15 pm I ate a small leafy salad, two thirds of a Costco turkey burger, two tiny pieces of fried chicken, and one Chinese dumpling.

Don't know why but after dinner I notice a great desire for carbs. In the past I would have had a pastry and now choose to drink my second cup of hazel nut coffee for the day.

Later around 9:00pm while writing a stress management bulletin I walked by the kitchen island and noticed fresh cherries. Couldn't identify what emotion I was diluting as I ate about a half dozen cherries. I decided that whatever it was that it was affordable for me to dilute it.

You might have noticed that the last several days while observing my feeling and eating behavior it's basically an eating diary. One might suggest writing the diary throughout the day, but I choose to make mental notes instead and record them later.
Diaries are not necessary to drop weight, but can be an important tool. I suggest a diary such as I'm keeping connecting emotions with food. Join in, what can you lose?
Whoops, that word, "LOSE."

Emotional Eating "Big Life Problems?"

There's a good article which focuses you in the direction of identifying problems and then solving them. But unfortunately doesn't tell you how to embrace your emotions. It suggests that you find a counselor which is good if the counselor knows how to help you disengage food from your problems.

The article assumes that emotional eaters have emotional problems and that's not always true. Waking up late because of a malfunctioning alarm clock can contribute to you feeling pressured and food can be a way of diluting that feeling. So it would be silly to seek counseling for malfunctioning alarm clocks. Often it's simply a matter of identifying the emotion and what contributed to it. With some basic direction, you can learn to leave food out of the situation. Observing is the first step. It gives you an opportunity to identify the emotions and then you can trace back to the source of the emotion--the stressor.

Today I had a hearty breakfast of pancakes made with rye and millet flour and sweetened with honey and two tablespoons of rock road. I did this in preparation of a physically exerting day. I weighed myself after my gluttony on Sunday and was two pounds over what I was before the week-end started. Today the scale read four pounds down--my goal weight. It doesn't make sense and that's why I think the scale is a stupid instrument. Nevertheless I'm happy with it's reading although I have trouble believing it.

I returned from a tiring day at 4:00 in the afternoon and had an egg with two pieces of bacon on a slice of toast followed by an nectarine. Physically I'm tired and emotionally I'm flat.

For dinner at 8:00 pm when my significant other got home I had a green leafy salmon salad and a small portion of some Korean fish cakes she brought home. After wards I felt hungry for desert and observed a feeling of being left out as my significant other and her daughter spoke Chinese. I chose to take the feeling straight with a cup and a half of coffee.

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