Re: Crisis Situations/let down/tired eating

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Alana - you rock gal! That is so wonderful to read and I compliment you on your

success. Thanks for posting, its so inspirational for me as well as a great

reminder that positive changes can and do happen if you work at it.

Applauding!! Katcha

IEing since March 2007

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> I have just come through on the other side of a crisis situation with my 16 yr

old son. I won't bore with the details of what happened. What I did want to

comment on was my eating during and now that I'm through it.

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> As I was going through the situation I was working at staying in tune with my

emotions. I did some journaling which was very helpful, and I really don't like

to journal, but it allowed me to finally get to sleep. By being in tune with

what I was really feeling I was able to really pay attention to my body. Often

times I felt naseous or that rocks where in my stomach. When I felt hungry I

ate lite little things, more snacking or mini meals than anything. At first

when it all started and I was really upset, I immediately grabed a box of girl

scout cookies. I ate one, don't really like pre-packaged cookies, realized the

cookies weren't going to change the situation or make me feel better and I put

them down after just 1 cookie! I was feeling very proud of how I was dealing

with the entire situtaion and not turning to food.

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> Last night as everything was coming to a close and coming back to normal, I

went to the grocery store to mainly pick up milk, some juice for this morning.

Just as I was about to check out I thought, " I haven't had ice cream in long

time. Ice Cream sounds really good. I'll just look at the flavors. " I got one

of my favorites, Moose Tracks-Vanilla Ice Cream with ribbons of chocolate and

little bits of peanut butter cups. I went home, had some spaghetti, ate some

Doritos and then had my ice cream. And a chocolate chip cookie from Panera

Bread. I ate too much but not to the point of being sick - just one large bowl

of ice cream, not the entire container. But that's ok. I think I did amazingly

well through this situation. In the past I would've eaten my way through the

entire situation.

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> I find I tend to really eat when I'm tired/exhausted and as a let down to

situations as this, or also at the end of the day/week. Maybe it's deep down I

believe I deserve a reward to surviving this situation or day/week? It's my way

of hugging myself for getting through this. Now, I just know how to change

this, the next time something like this happens. Thought this might be a good

conversation topic as I know I'm not the only one that deals with this

particular issue. Not looking for advice, just thought I'd open up the topic.

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> Alana

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