emotional eating/comfort foods :)

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Hello Jeanna@...,

In reference to your comment:

ð I also think that more women than men have the

ð emotional eating thing, but, I do think men suffer from it

ð too.  The food you eat brings you " comfort " .  It dulls

ð your senses makes you sedate.  You stuff the food

ð and along with that stuff the emotion you are feeling so

ð it doesn't grow and you don't have to deal with it.  I

ð have searched for years to figure out what I get from

ð food that I don't get from anything else in my life.

I think that men do the emotional eating as well as women, but i think that

its more socially acceptible for men to be a bit overweight. they carry it

better etc.

I don't think that figuring out why you eat or what you get from it, really

helps as much as just finding other things to do instead...

I highly recommend a 12 step program, such as www.overeatersanonymous.org to

deal with emotional eating Its helped me a lot to change my perspective of

food and make it more just fuel

heather