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.

I'd love to know the answer to that one too !
Seriously my life has been one never ending sequence of diets since I was 19 and I'm now 58 😩. It wasn't until a few years ago when the whole concept of 'emotional eating' and 'comfort eating' started to be openly discussed that I realised what was wrong with me...oh I can lose weight just fine....It's just keeping it off that's the problem, I've been everything from an 18 to an 8 and I see no way out of the cycle either.

I find if I pour myself a glass of Diet Coke or a sparkling water and sip it slowly and read mumsnet then the urge goes away. I think finding something to eat is a mental thing for me and I tend to do it if I'm bored. So by slow drinking and coming on here gradually the urge for me goes away. I think distracting yourself is a biggie OP- even if it's cleaning a bathroom etc

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I definitely eat frommboredom and I know I make terrible choices after alcohol

Where did you get this from?

I'm the same and McDonalds is my weakness, alongside cake, sweets, pastries. Some things that help me...

• Hobbies. I knit and watch a box series that auto plays the next episode. I can get so engrosed I don't actually think about snacking. Our local park also has a running group. I can't go now due to injury but just getting out of the house meant I wasn't sat at home snacking (and also burning off calories).
• Get different snacks. I buy my favourite fruits (cherries and plums) when I can afford to. I also buy frozen smoothie mix fruit. I just tip out a little bowlful and eat that. It's cold so you can't shove it down and I find it can often do the trick for boredom eating.
• Bake cakes and sweet treats. Often it's a little heathier to make your own rather than shop bought. I also try to find healthier recipies, like muffins made with vegetables.

My weight is now stable. Still overweight but no longer gaining. Just have to tip the other way to start losing but I need it to be a lifestyle change not a quick fix.

I am 12 weeks into getting control over this, which was for me a miracle. I joined Trinity Transformation and what did it for me was 2 weeks of no dairy, wheat, alcohol or sugar. After 2 days my cravings had completely gone, and that with their 121 coaching has been a life changer for me. I never understood before how people could have chocolate in the house and not eat it immediately, and now I do. I no longer go out each day to buy a sharing pack of chocolate buttons to eat by myself, and impact on my mental health hugely beneficial. I honestly never thought I could be free, though I am terrified of going back!

Hello @Iwouldratherbemuckingout Would you mind saying a bit more about the Trinty Transformation plan. It sounds great but I can't work out what's involved or what it costs.

I still binge eat.

But I’ve replaced the shit with healthy food, and one meal a day.

So I can have a huge meal once a day - huge salads with fish or chicken. Or a curry, or my favourite which is jacket potatoes with loads of tuna mayo. Then Greek yogurt. Hummus and carrots. Fruit.

I get my binge still but it’s good for me.

Lost 4 stone so far (6 more to go).

I know that won’t work for everyone, but when I cut out the sugar and processed crap, it was way after a while.

*easy, not way

Party rings minis are only 86kcal a bag if you really crave something sweet. I have them on PMT days.

Party rings yum!
I think one issue with me is that if I have something sweet I then crave more and more sweet things!

Willpower, I used to find this too: literally one sweet thing, and my whole system would sort of rear up and turn, predator-style, toward the possibility of more of the same. That sort of involuntary, choice-less surrender really switched me on to the addiction aspect of my emotional eating, the healing of which has become a big motivator.

How do I get over the mindset of "I deserve a treat?"

Say to yourself -
"I deserve to feel in control of my life and eating this way is stealing that from me".
"I deserve to feel joy in my life and eating won't do that for me".

Adhd disgnosis op - and you sound v similar!

I recently suspect I have ADHD too. I was going to bring it up at my recent postnatal check (re going back on my anxiety meds) but could not bring myself to say it to the GP. Thinking of just treating myself as if I have ADHD and seeing if that helps? What would an official diagnosis add - is there ADHD meds or is it a case of just managing?

On I absolutely think I have adhd, I have no attention span, can't take in directions or instructions at all, memory is shocking. I can have about a million different conversations at once.
Also interested to know what the treatment is!

And I'm very disorganised. I didn't used to be.

I was so determined and now I've just eaten a caramel shortbread, homemade. It was so delicious. So cross with myself.
I need to draw a line under and get back on it.

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🤣 oh dear!! Your caramel shortcake (sounds delicious) incident is exactly why the pantry is bare if treats & junk!!

The pantry here, that is. Easier to avoid temptation if it's not easily available. Feed the rest to the kids or give it to the neighbours?? DD loves baking and has type 1 diabetes. It's not a great combo, to put it mildly. The neighbours do very well out of it though.

Yes with Noom. I'm not on their payroll but it's transformed the way I think about eating. I lost the belly fat that is so dangerous and I lowered my diabetes risk.

My son made them with at my mums house and brought them home! But you are right, if it hadn't been in the house I would have been fine.

I watch old episodes of Secret Eaters on YouTube when I get a big craving.If you haven't seen it it's a documentary tupe show about people who eat more than they should and the wrong type of stuff.It keeps me on track.