How to stop emotional overeating?

Kiran · #1 10-01-2011, 06:59 PM

I am an emotional overeater and struggling hard with my body weight (about 105kg now)... I try to become more serene inside so not to need so much food, but I find there to be problems I can't handle alone. Like today:

Today after work I went to the library to give back some books that are already overdue, but the library was closed (it only opens tuesdays to fridays) - I got so fed up that I went and bought chocolate and relieved myself with it until the bus came, and then at home I ate a lot of bread with fresh cream cheese which is my favourite dinner. I know I shouldn't have and now I feel guilty, but also at that special moment it was like "I NEED THAT NOW".

I wonder, how to stop emotional overeating? This way I'll never get thin.

#2 10-01-2011, 07:01 PM

Perhaps stop worrying so much about being thin. I have seen another thread of yours and it seems like an unhealthy obsession.

Some people never look like models.

I am only 100 lbs, and I am 22. I HATE IT. It is not healthy! Being so skinny has made me sicker and sadder than any time in my life. I am gaining some weight back, but it is a slow process.

Don't worry yourself sick, please, every time you eat a food you enjoy.

Roselove · #3 10-01-2011, 07:02 PM

find health ways to cope, deal with your emotins instead of stuffing them, try journaling, talk therapy, eft, talking to friends, group therapy, energy healing etc yoga, medidation excercise to release..chose healthy options if you have to binge.. i.e. pick up a fruit or vegegable or whole grain bread and goat cheese

#4 10-01-2011, 07:10 PM

A suggestion: if you accept that nothing happens for a coincidence (because we are at the Spiritual Forums), logically everything happens for a reason. When something goes wrong in my life, I try to look into it for a learning and turn it into something positive (not always successfully, but trying anyway).
And Love yourself - you are a unique being of Light!