Guest guest Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Deb, that soup sounds like such a good idea! :-) Also, your description of bingeing made me realize that I would binge from tiredness and anxiety. Thanks for bringing it up. :-) CindiSubject: Soup for my soulTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 12:43 PM Somebody posted something about soup and it got me thinking. I really like soup - because it's soothing and warm in my stomach and it seems to fill me up. When i get home from work is when i usually binge. It's a transitioning time of day - going from my job from hell (that's another post, hahaha) to home. I have a family that I try to cook dinner for and I almost always overeat while I'm making dinner. I am also very tired this time of day. I remember as a teenager I used to come home from school and binge. I guess it's a release and a relief from a stressful day and it's engrained in me. I have tried different strategies to avoid bingeing this time of day. I have tried eating a larger lunch so I'm not ravenous, and I often try to eat a snack around 3-4pm that fills me up enough to know that what I'm dealing with when I get home is not physical hunger. Yesterday I tried something new. A nice bowl of warm soup. And you know it helped calm me down, and sort of comforted me. I ended up eating the rest of my dinner at this time but I did not binge. As a wife and mother, I sort of felt guilty that I just ate MY dinner without starting the rest of the family's. (my kids are 21 and 18 so it's not like they cant cook for themselves). It was a good day. Much better than the last few months. Deb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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