[(JD)]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/boos...ese-peopl.html

Yale University study says it could be because they don't garner the same satisfaction from eating as normal weight people do.

[ECHOES]

I wonder why non-obese people overeat, and I would imagine there is as strong a possibility that they also don't get the same satisfaction from overeating.

I tried an emotional connection theory on myself once. I was eating M&M's daily and I read that there might be an emotional connection to that behavior. So I spent some time noticing how I felt about eating those M&M's and any connections that might come up. I realized that eating them was indeed a reward/comfort and that there was a connection to my beloved grandmother, the only person I could relate to because she was also hearing impaired. When I stayed with her, I could have M&M's every day. So I began thinking of my grandmother, remembering her and remembering what it was like to be with her, the only place I felt cared about and cared for; soon I could just enjoy that time thinking about her and the craving for the M&M's went away. The memories I enjoy instead of the M&M's are much sweeter.

[Miss Laura]

Hey guys, ummmm..... good question. I am obese. I also comfort eat. I do it as although i know i shouldn't so it. It takes all the crap that is in my life away for 20 mins or so. I always feel good after i have eatten. I feel guilty later on though and then i start to see that i am a fat B@@@@. Then the depression kicks in. But it does make me feel good about myself espeically after a tough day

[Hunny]

While looking up some information, I came across this post and was intrigued.

I found some slight comfort in overeating this past year (due to many circumstances). It now shows in that I gain about 30 lbs. Although the overeating helped temporarily I now feel like a baloon albeit it a pretty one . Ugh, carrying around about 50lbs extra b/c I was still about 20lbs overweight when I went through this trauma/depression, makes my body hurt. I hurt in joints and in my poor little feet (they are not pretty but they are little).

I have lost weight in past going to WW but this time I am wondering if I should try something else, perhaps OA. Anyone got any information or experience on them or something else. I feel like I have come out the other side of the depression/trauma for the most part but would prefer not to use food as a comfort.

Thanks for whatever you can provide.

Hunny

[(JD)]

I know personally (and science had taught me) that when stressed, because of the cortisol, you have a tendency to gain weight.

I lost my sense of taste and smell when I had my industrial accident. So the only pleasures I have from eating are the ambiance, texture, temperature, visual, and of course good memories of foods!

I find I simply must write down what I eat when I'm stressed (the exact period of time I forget or don't because of the stress!) If it's on paper, then I won't overeat "accidently." Otherwise, I don't know even IF I've eaten, much less what!

I suspect overeating is a habit too?

[Rhapsody]

My answer would be - Emotional Eating meant to Protect Ones Self

Originally Posted by _Sky

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/boos...ese-peopl.html

Yale University study says it could be because they don't garner the same satisfaction from eating as normal weight people do.

Hi Sky,

They may be onto something with the Dopamine connection. Dopamine dificency is also the reason for ADHD,

I was obease as a child.
and well one is to many and a million is never enough when it comes to certain foods .especially sugar.

Untill they find the right drug or gene for it I find abstaining from what turns one on is the only answer and that takes the surrender that any addict has to face ,

it doesn;t seem fair , but in the long run . I do not miss my junk food.

I got the message from a very wonderful woman who had 15 years of abstince one day at An OA confrence. back in the 1980's If she is still living she probably has almost 40 by now.

I knew she had what I needed. It was just not what I really wanted on that day. It took some work to surrender. And Im glad I can follow in her foot steps one day at a time . And grateful for the simplicity of it.
it works.

Patricia

[kileybaby]

I always thought it started a cycle of depression that they comfort with more. Maybe their discouraged, thinking how on earth am i gonna do this? you know??