Are you an emotional eater?

Question

For me, emotional eating is a habit I've always had. It's my control. I control how many calories I eat and how little I eat. Sometimes I go through periods where I'll only eat a couple of hundred calories a day for weeks and sometimes I'll binge eat like crazy.

Typically what causes binge eating for me is boredom, stress, sadness or even excitement.

What causes me to eat so little is something that might set me off such as pictures or thinspiration quotes I might run across unintentionally. Or if I just feel bad on a particular day and vow to not eat so much so I won't look like a pig. Mostly photos though, like link

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They just set me off on weeks of low cal eating haha. My inspiration basically.

anyways, anyone else an emotional eater?

HEYGUYS · Accepted Answer

hey firstly say helloooo to you , hehe, when it comes to this topic, I would confess that I used to be an emotional drinker. once oupon a time ,when I was down , the first thing came into my head ws drinking, whether beer or vodka would be OK with me. after a while , I found that I was a little adicted to drinking, alcohol just made me high for a short time , then annoying stuffs came back to my mind, so I broke this bad habit. Physical solutions will never  solve the mental problems, this is my conclusion

myspacemybroke · Accepted Answer

I'm fairly logical I think. I usually try to reflect my day's activity in my meals. IE if I've done a fair bit of work throughout the day I'll eat some heavier stuff (beans, breads, and the like), but if I'm mainly just veging around the house I'll eat a couple apples during the day and dinner.

Incidentally, all of the broads in those pictures and really goddam nasty don't base anything for looks off of them.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

I don't eat when I'm stressed. my birth control made me less hungry in general...

i just thought I would throw this out there... I used to suffer from an body image/eating disorder and I have seen you posting around here and... I could be wrong, but are you suffering too?

LadyFilomena · Accepted Answer

I'm always emotional when I see Oreos and then I eat them. :)

martyfellow · Answer

Most of us are like this to some extent. When people say they diet and exercise but still can't lose weight, it's almost always because they aren't telling us about these times when they binge. One binge can cancel weeks of good behavior!

This is why it's good to have a formal, set diet, so you do't depend on your mood to keep you on schedule!

justme20 · Answer

those women in those links look HORRIBLE! its not healthy if your hip bones stick out further than your stomach and your legs are that thin. you can tell its not natural. for me I'm a bored eater. I cannot eat if I'm emotional. I actualy get full and will get sick if I try to eat. the reason why you binge eat is because a few hundred calories isn't enough to sustain your body so your body feels as if its starving and will hold on to your fat which will make it impossible to lose weight

Longshot · Answer

I suffered from 2 things: 1) the cycle of being depressed then eating to relieve depression and then becoming depressed again when I put weight on and eating once again to relieve depression. 2) Mindless eating.

These days I have learned to conrol both.

snowboarder720 · Answer

I've never had a problem with eating.  I can out eat anyone at a all you can eat buffet and not gain a pound, it's great.  However eating has never came in tough with emotions, but sure when I'm a little pissed off or I reward myself with a ice cream cone or something.  Nothing major where I'm stuffing myself for a week or anything.

MaskofInsanity · Answer

Yup. I eat when I'm sad, happy, bored, excited... I just eat.

c7777 · Answer

Not really, when I'm super stressed it might cause me to eat less or feel like very food tastes super dull that's about it. when I'm emotional I go take it out at the gym or go fishing by myself

aMuse · Answer

Nope, if anything when I feel down I forget to eat...

Anonymous · Answer

I am an emotional eater, when I'm depressed I eat like crazy and sometimes I just go a long time without eating anything at all. I don't look at calories but I refuse to eat anything that's even vaguely unhealthy LOOKING. People tell me I should eat more because sometimes I get scarily thin, like when my depression is really bad because my medication doesn't work. It depends, when I'm bored I eat and when I'm anxious or scared. Other than that I eat next to nothing

sweet_18 · Answer

The girls in the first two pics are grotesquely skinny. If I saw that I'd wanna eat more

hotxos · Answer

i'm an emotional binge eater, its uncontrollable, I'm so fat from binging on junk food. getting bigger and bigger!

Moloch · Answer

I actually can't eat when I'm stressed, the opposite.

Anonymous · Answer

I eat when I'm bored but thankfully I'm still young so I don't put on weight easily. As a side note, girl in the first pic looks absolutely dreadful.

asianfreak · Answer

technically, I was a little bit of an emotional eater, but now, no

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