Over eating/emotional eating at night

[hejg283]

I'm 22, about 5ft 6/7 and weigh 12st 5lbs (when I last weighed myself on 21st so going to go up by the 28th!).

I've always been on the larger side because I got into the habit of emotional eating after suffering some abuse as a child.

That emotional eating has turned into eating out of boredom and I don't know what to do.

I've been on slimming world for the best part of a year and have lost just over/under a stone and a half (keep fluctuating between over and under!) So I don't know if it's just because I'm getting bored of that plan but it is so flexible and basically just involves cutting out the crap, even things like rice and pasta have no syns.

Tonight has been really bad though. I've had 2 ice lollies, a hot chocolate, two kinder chocolate bars, a mini roll and two mini aldi dream snack bars (mini milkyway) all within about 3 hours and that's on top of my dinner (had fajitas which isn't the unhealthiest!).

It's getting to the point where I feel like I'm binging and some nights I want to make myself be sick and the only reason I haven't is because my body doesn't let me.... know matter how many times I stick my fingers down my throat.

I really need help or ideas on what I can do to help. I'm not the most active but do do kickboxing twice a week at least and I've tried going for a healthy option instead like grapes but it Just doesn't satisfy that craving.

It only seems to be at night though, most mornings I have a bowl of fruit for breakfast and then a salad or left over dinner for lunch.

Sorry for the long post but if anyone has any ideas.... that would be great.

don't think about the eating, think about what is upsetting you. What thing could be stressing you out. Guess if you don't know. Try to think of one thing (however small) you could do to make that stress less. It's like using a muscle, the more you do this, the more you learn to figure out and just deal (over many days/weeks) each time with the stress, rather than resort to squashing the feelings down by eating.

You need to get that stuff out of your house. Pronto.

Why do you have that food in your house? Get rid. Throw it in the bin and don't buy it.

It takes around 3 weeks to break an addiction. Every time you relent and give in to the craving, the clock starts back at t=0. You need to persevere. Don't buy crap food because if it isn't in your house, you can't eat it.