What did you do to stop emotional over-eating?

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1. Stopped having excess food jn the house. Less temptation

2. Substitute. Walk around your block, indulge in your favorite hobby, call your cousin you’ve been meaning to connect with.

3. It took one excruciatingly, good, hard, honest look at my internal self. Realizing that it was not a healthy thing to indulge in a habit that is purely out of emotion, and that surely this indulgence spreads to other aspects of my life. I want to be healthy and know I need to be healthy to be happy, so I can no longer condone this behavior.

4. Get serious help from a dietitian, she had lots of healthy alternatives when I’m hungry and it really worked.

5. Stopped buying my go-to binge foods for overeating while I was transitioning out of that stage of my life. Kept mostly whole foods around the house, or snacks that I wouldn’t feel like binge eating (for me, I have more control around chocolate and sweets than I do around chips and salty snacks, so I kept sweets around)! Still allowed me to indulge in snacking and didn’t feel like i was taking stuff away or punishing myself, but helped me become aware of when exactly i would get up and go try to grab chips to binge, and helped me identify patterns for triggers

6. Addressed it in therapy. It’s an eating disorder imo. I also don’t keep “binge friendly” or trigger foods in my home. It’s simply not worth the risk to me. Experimenting with healthier coping mechanisms. Keeping a food journal.

7. Weight Watchers, as hard as it is to admit

8. I literally had to start medication. Nothing else worked for me. I tried everything and finally talked to my primary care doctor, she was very open and kind about it.

9. I stopped looking at food as an activity/crutch and now remind myself that its fuel. I have a cheat day once a week but I try not to go too hard. Its helped. I have been losing weight and feeling better.

10. Dietician, therapist, and psychiatrist. Psych if you’re pursuing meds (Vyvanse, topiramate), dietician to help you develop a healthy eating pattern, and a therapist to help you discover why you emotionally eat to begin with.

11. My will to shed weight became stronger than my desire to eat junk foods. Now I log my calories daily and I’m finally losing the weight. The feeling of being in total control is fabulous.