Comfort eater

<font color="purple"> Feel a bit of a fraud posting here but here goes.I am a comfort eater . Tend to overeat. Know a reasonable amount
about healthy eating without being too puritanical about it but putting it into practice is a whole different ball game.

A lot of the time i feel hungry though logic tells me, given the amount of food i eat that it's not necessarily a physical hunger.

I think it's often out of bordedom and misinterpreting emotional hunger/void as physical hunger.

Of course entertaining that possibility and knowing how to combat it are two very different things.

Some days i can be compulsively snacking/eating like i'm a contestant in a Prada Willi pie eating competition.
Have even been known to cook myself something sizeable to eat in the early hours of the morning.

Over weight- yes. BMI of about 30.5 . If i didn't use skimmed milk/no sugar in tea/low fat spreads etc it would be much higher. My diet is very Jekyll and hide. </font>

You are not a fraud for posting here...you are nothing of the sort. You're just like the rest of us...battling against food for one reason or another. You mentioned emotional hunger as causing this. Perhaps you could keep a journal? "food for thought" so to speak? You also mentioned boredom, perhaps pick something specific to engage yourself in when you feel these sorts of urges approaching. Arts and crafts, walking, reading, music, do you have a pet?, cleaning, writing, etc.

tc,
lil

Hi teejai, I struggle with food too. Sometimes I eat it because it makes me feel good. If I did not enjoy binging, I probably would not do it. You are not alone in your struggles--there are plenty of us here who understand. I try to eat by a schedule instead of by hunger pains. I just can't trust my body to tell me when I am really hungry.

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Hi teejai, I struggle with food too. Sometimes I eat it because it makes me feel good. If I did not enjoy binging, I probably would not do it. You are not alone in your struggles--there are plenty of us here who understand. I try to eat by a schedule instead of by hunger pains. I just can't trust my body to tell me when I am really hungry.

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<font color="purple">Having a schedule sounds like a good idea. What schedule do you have?. </font>

I'm an emotional eater too. We're going through a lot of stress in our lives (spouse & I-marriage is perfect, it's other stuff) and I'm always having to watch myself.Otherwise, I'd have my emotional eating binges. It's hard to not want to sink myself in misery into food. Food doesn't help..at all. I'm only more miserable after the fact.
HANG TOUGH!
Ocean13