Are you an emotional overeater??? refried version...here

"stop over-eating when you feel lonely, humiliated and bored." I do eat when lonely and bored...humilated.. NEVER! I have my standards.  LOL.  Seriously folks, i posted recently about being alone and eating too much...now, i can't actually say I was lonely exactly. perhaps more bored. To me, lonely is when you don't have anybody to call. "stop eating when you feel hopeless, feel not a whole person and not good enough." I don't do this . "handle feelings of emptiness, guilt and daily life stressors without overeating. " I have eaten to handle stress. Kind of get on a roll, all wound up and find myself reaching for salty crunchy foods before I stop myself.  More so these days, my red flags go up just from feeling stressed, so I make plans to divert.
"love, intimacy and structure fulfilled without snacking. You won't feel the urge to eat when someone doesn't treat you right." I don't do this, not now.  Maybe when i was single and newly divorced. "daily life and frustrated ambitions without eating." This is closely related to stress eating. I would say that at age 50, i fully accept and am proud of my station in life.

Hey, where's the Happy Eating Section???  I totally am more guilty these days of eating while stupidly happy.  ya know..inna parteee mood and going for the gold like there is no end to the parteeee.

boredom and stress.  And sometimes because I am craving something.  I have to look into that more.  Like the salty cravings which are even more intense then the sweet cravings. most of the time I don't give in, I'm a freakishly in control person.  But sometimes, oh well, I'm also human.   You know, I could never quite get that whole "it's not what you're eating it's what eating you" mentality. I think that's just far too much of a copout, sorry.

I've found that I eat when bored. When I'm bored, I go into the kitchen, look around, and see what there is to "do" (eat!).  I've been working hard to stop that. Instead, I try to do something fun with the kids. Keeping busy is key to forgetting that you want to eat! I also find myself eating when I feel bad. I am big on "treats". I want to "treat" myself because I feel bad, or "treat" myself because I've worked hard at something, etc.  I need to tell myself: FOOD IS NOT A CRUTCH! FOOD IS NOT A REWARD!