Re: Bad Day/Emotional Eating/Volunteering

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Where do you lonely people live? You can come to my house for Christmas

Theresahermitesss wrote:

Alice,I know I'm new and don't want to just start going post happy here but you bring up something else I struggle with when it comes to food, weight loss, etc. You're lonely. Dawn's had a bad day. I think successful weight loss is a two-fold plan for a lot of us. We have to deal with the food, *and* many of us have to deal with being emotional or compulsive eaters. How do we deal with the emotional eating? I have come to the realization that I *can not* successfully lose weight unless I also deal with the many emotional issues that cause me to overeat in the first place. I started seeing a very good therapist in late August that deals specifically with eating disorders, but she has had health issues of her own and she hasn't been able to meet with me near as much as I need to work with someone in order to

work on these other issues. Losing weight for me is a two-step plan, developing better eating habits *and* addressing emotional eating. I suppose that's why I asked if there were any r/t support groups. I'm pretty isolated myself and could use the outside encouragement and support. The holidays are lonely for a lot of us, I know. I went home to St. Louis for Thanksgiving, but will not be going home for Christmas. I'm looking into seeing if I can volunteer my time somewhere at a local community agency during the next couple of weeks. I work in the front office of a not-for-profit organization that offers treatment to those struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and I've found that staying later and helping with other things, doing more than I'm asked to do, has been very gratefying to me personally. I've gotten a lot out of it and find that getting outside ourselves, helping others, goes a long way in helping to not

feel so lonely. Just my two cents, for what their worth.Debbie> Dawn...> Sorry to hear about your bad day..!! I have had countless bad food days since Thanksgiving. Everytime I think I am back on track I just screw up remembering the Apple Fritters and Banana Cream pie available just around the corner. Then I go for it and.well.... you know the drill. I had lost 25 lbs. on SBD but haven't gotten back on the scale since screwing up at Thanksgiving and ever since. Sorry to be such a bummer to everyone but I thought by hopping on and declaring all of this... I might wake up and turn things around. I tend to feel lonely during the holidays and I suppose I use food to feed my loneliness... but the subsequent extra padding it provides leaves me feeling MORE lonely...

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lol! Well, that's a little far to travel from Missouri, but thanks

for the offer!

Debbie

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> Reminder: The South Beach Diet is not low-carb. Nor is it low-fat.

The South Beach Diet teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the

right fats-the good ones-and enables you to live quite happily

without the bad carbs and bad fats.

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> For more on this WOE please read " The South Beach Diet " by Arthur

Agatston, MD. ISBN 1-57954-814-8

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[Guest guest]

yeah, that's a bit far

Theresahermitesss wrote:

lol! Well, that's a little far to travel from Missouri, but thanks for the offer!Debbie__________________________________________________

[Guest guest]

yeah, one of the MANY differences! lol

Kris

Re: Bad Day/Emotional Eating/Volunteering

In general I think women are often far more emotional eaters than

men. My husband never understands why when I get upset I eat

chocolate. He seems to be able to dissociate or something from a bad

day and switch off somehow. He'd always say " You know eating that

chocolate (or whatever I was binging on) will not fix (whatever the

problem is) " Of course I know that. But hey we all know where are

minds go when we are in that situation, cos we've all been there.

Maybe it is just the difference between the sexes?

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