Can anyone recommend a good book on emotional or comfort eating, please?

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My sis thinks I have problems with food, and I agree. It is weird because I am very happy now and very fortunate to have a great hubby and lovely daughter, and a job I like, my Christian faith is very important to me, my family are close by and I am fit(ish) and well. But as a kid I was very shy and I've had anxiety in the past, and a touch of OCD! So maybe, just maybe I am eating for comfort, for acceptance, I am not sure for what!

Can anyone recommend a good book on emotional or comfort eating, please?

I feel happy that I'm making progress with food. My mother-in-law made me a packed lunch 2day (hubby was doing the London Marathon and I went to watch with my father-in-law). The packed lunch came with THREE chocolate bisuits bars! I only ate one of the bars. Quite proud of myself! A while ago I feel sure I would have eaten all 3 of them!

Now I am getting somewhere!

If anyone wants to follow my findings about overeatigm please do take a look at www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1191480-Anyone-struggling-with-compulsive-ways-of-eating-Anyone-getting-any-answers and feel free to add your comments.

I am off to Spring Harvest for a few days www.springharvest.org.uk/ back next week. Please do continue to post if you have any good suggestions and all the best.

Happy Easter.

Sorry that shuold be over eating (of course!)

All the best to anyone still looking in on this. Be nice to hear from anyone who has any wisdom to share.

If anyone wants to continue the conversation can they look in on www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1191480-Anyone-struggling-with-compulsive-ways-of-eating-Anyone-getting-any-answers?reverse=1

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I've just posted there...

I am going to a Christian group tomorrow (Sunday) about eating disorders. Not sure I really have an eating disorder, never been diagnosed with one but my eating is quite disordered. I am not sure I would even say I am addicted to food but I do definitely have odd ideas about food and eat in a bad way.

My irritable bowel makes it hard for me to know when my tummy feels normal, as it is sometime bloated and feels full. I think I sometimes used to eat to make it feel more normal.

Does anyone have any experience of bloating being caused by sugar?

Anyway, still analysing why I overeat! I always fear missing out on food, almost fear being hungry or left out of eating. It is quite funny now I am aware of it to see how normal people do not rush the buffet table as soon as they get the nod it is time to eat! I might ask colleagues, family if they are eating, want anything got for them from the food table and just funny to see them nonchalantly looking over to the food and not fussed if they miss out on stuff! I, on the other hand, am frantic if I don't get there first, I hate waiting and they might run out of my favourite thing! It is amazing. So must pursue the mindful eating and keep with it. Today a dear lady said she thought I have lost weight. I have and so it was so nice of her to notice.

I wanted to post a recommendation for the Beck Diet Solution book and did a search first to see whether anyone else had recommended it and found this thread. FABULOUS book for anyone wanting to understand and change troublesome behaviours around food.

Verso thanks for that, someone else mentioned that one.

I know you have done so well and your pictures are amazing.

I am doing really well now that I am on the new ID course www.newid.info/

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I have found I am not thinking about food in the same way, I am not feeling deprived by not having lots of treats etc and I am feeling so positive about what I do eat. It is great. It is early days. Only been to one session and the next one is coming up (there are 6 in total). Due to a sort holiday I will miss one session and I feel quite sad to be missing it! So, onwards and upwards (or rather downwards as I have already lost some weight, but the main thing is to get my eating in normal boundaries).

There is no no weigh in or talk of diets etc, or exercise, there is just a look at helping us with problems with eating.

I know it might not be right for everyone, and not everyone who overeats has an eating disorder.

I felt kind of weird 'labelling' myself as having an eating disorder as I have not been medically diagnosed but I know how I am around food, I impulse eat and at times compulsively eat too. So for me the course is just what I need!

Best wishes to all.

I've just started a thread because I'm doing a course once a week called New Id

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1219502-I-have-just-started-doing-the-New-ID-course-anyone-interested

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