A friend of mine mentioned a book that dealt with emotional eating, and I think that’s one of my base problems. Dealing with depression through food. When I’m really depressed I don’t eat at all, but that happens rarely, most of the time I try to stuff feelings in by eating away. Perhaps one of the things I should face is this big issue. How do you stop a bad habit, turn around and start facing feelings and dealing with them? What is the first step that you have to take. Well, you can eat at meal times only, you can ask yourself this: What am I feeling at this meal time? A simple step forward may help me out in the long run. I’m going to try to focus on my emotions every time I’m about to have a meal and see if it’s a good time to put food on my plate.
Have you thought about working with a therapist? Maybe working through some of the emotional things with a therapist may help you control what you eat.
One of the things I have been doing recently is that I only eat what I really want. If it doesn’t completely excite me or if I am not enjoying it, I don’t eat it. This has allowed me to focus on only foods I really, really want. Some of this has been borne of my ulcerative colitis and some from my very sluggish metabolism.
I have also found that figuring out which foods my body feels best with has been helpful too. My body likes protein so I tend to focus more on those foods.
I have also cut out almost all processed foods (except my weekend eggo waffle thing). I eat very little restaurant food. I try to focus on whole, natural food with minimal processing. That rules out a lot of high calorie stuff that is really not giving your body what it needs.
I certainly have not lost weight. My doctor is trying to figure out why my metabolism is so slow right now. However, I do feel better eating this way.
I think feeling better is the best thing that can happen for you considering, and I’ve been following that thing too.