Anyone successfully stopped boredom/comfort/emotionl eating?

[Nowillpoweratall]

I cannot stop. I enjoy eating, I love food and I'm always really quite bored. Food makes me happy. I also have terrible hayfever at the moment which is making me feel dreadful but the eating was still an issue before that.
Everyday I say to myself I will sort my eating but I don't then I so cross with myself.
There must be a way to overcome this without only relying on willpower?
If I have something nice to eat I tell myself I deserve a treat but I'm going to end up with diabetes so it's an absolutely ridiculous and wrong mindset.

Oh and no point saying don't have it in the house cos I will just go out and buy it!

a hobby. Honestly it was the only thing that worked for me. It would get to like 10:30pm and I’d realised I hadn’t eaten as I was engrossed! When usually in the evenings I will have eaten around 2000 calories in snacks. You need to get the same dopamine and rush of endorphins that you get from food.

No solution but happy to buddy you if you want someone in the same situation.

What is your hobby? I don't have any hobbies, I have absolutely no attention span at all. Realised I don't actually do anything? I work from home fulltime, see friends for coffee, walk the dog, housework, cooking, ferrying kids around. That's it! Working from home doesn't help, makes me even lazier.

Oh yes please! Pm me!

I’d love to know. I just ordered a crepe from Kaspas that I absolutely did not need. I just bought it because it was something to do before I gave my daughter her dinner.

I’m so bad and I can honestly never see it stopping. I eat when I’m sad, I eat when I’m happy, I eat when I’m bored. It just never ends

I agree about a hobby.

Have you read Allen Carr's book, Bad Sugar? It tries to get you away from using will power and instead make you just not want to eat the crap because you know it is bad for you.

It also says that it's a bit like smoking - you only smoke because you smoke. You only eat rubbish because you crave it but get out of the habit for a few days then weeks and you remove that craving. Worth a read to see if you can start changing your mindset 😎.

Me too and I wrote a post in calorie counting thread today about it . I have eaten 1000 calories of biscuits and crisps today . I feel rotten after it and I have started again this eve with a decent dinner . Would buddy up too

I have been having a drink instead when I feel the need to comfort eat, usually water, black coffee or green tea, it helps most of the time.

Also cutting out bread seems to reduce my cravings for other food.

Skating 🤣 as soon as the kids are in bed I’m out the back (with baby monitor!) trying to do flips. I promised myself that when I recovered from my C-section that I would learn and now I’m getting loads better at it.
Dont cut out any food groups. It’s such bullshit advice for people with a binge eating problem. Don’t deny yourself what you want but just try to reduce the amount you have and increase your activity.

Not yet but I've just bought Darren brown gastric band hypnosis so I will let you know how I get on if you are interested

Keeping out of the kitchen helps me- I find when I’m in there (working at the kitchen table say) the proximity of snacks makes me more likely to eat them.

I tried that before didn't work!

Omg I couldn't skate! Thats incredibly impressive !

Are you me. I work from home. Walk the dog and run around after the kids. I joined a ladies running group. I'm absolutely no runner. They are really inclusive and Lap to keep up with me plodding along.

Because I've exercised I feel less inclined to eat things I shouldn't.

I've been doing the low carb bootcamp on here for just shy of a month and I can honestly say that I am not craving food in the way that I used to. I'm in the obese category, basically a secret eater, but the firm boundaries of low carb for me are really helpful.

I've lost 5lb, so still a long way to go, but it really has made a difference to the respect I have for myself in a way. I used to be annoyed and let down by myself a lot, whereas these last few weeks i've felt more in control, and like i'm investing in myself more.

Try overeaters anonymous.

lots of online meetings and v friendly

Thank you, is there a UK one? I can only find US one.

Argh it's all about god!!! No!!!!

No, no - it's deffo not, don't let that put you off.

I have never had a godly thought in my life and I don't think 95% of the people on there have either.

Lots of UK meetings. Early bird at 7am below if that's any good.

us02web.zoom.us/j/8331483967?pwd=cXhYcDgz

Ok thank you! That's a zoom mtg, is there a link to read about so I can dither, angst and probably not do it?!!

I'm not one to talk, but definitely agree with keeping yourself busy. Knitting is good, or card making or embroidery.

I also just don't buy nice things, as evening is a bad time for me for snacking. So even if I've bought a delicious cookie brownie in the afternoon (today), I know I'm at least not adding more calories with the crisps and chocolate I could eat for no reason in the evening. I'm getting used to feeling full after dinner and having no more.

I also randomly tried 'I can make you thin' by Paul McKenna last year and, while it didn't work, I managed to completely put myself off KitKats using one of his techniques. I was obsessively eating salted caramel chunky kitkats so tried the method and haven't eaten a single KitKat since! I can look at them on the shelf and go 🤢 . So I might try that technique again with something else I eat a lot of, like chocolate digestive or pastries.

Crochet. Ties your fingers up a bit so you snack slower.

Keep apples(etc) by your chair and lower calorie snacks. (Ryvita?)

Try some chewellry (sensory chewing toy)

Gradual change. Slow down the weight gain first. Make it achievable. When that becomes a habit, change something else. Whatever you do has to be sustainable long term.

Get enough sleep.

Smaller plate/ bowl.

Eat something sensible when you are hungry. Better than trying to hold out then eating a tube of pringles.

Make unhealthy snacks harder to access and keep out of sight.

Keep well hydrated.