Emotional eating due to anxiety: Peanut and peanut butter addiction.

[WinterinOz]

Something I'm slowly coming to terms with and something I'm desperate to overcome is my eating habits. I eat three regular-size meals a day with one snack in the evening. I work out every day and I'm at a healthy weight for my size, however for the past few months, I have noticed that for whatever reason is I have become addicted to eating peanuts and peanut butter. Both of these I would primarily eat as a snack. Sometimes I would eat a peanut butter sandwich as a meal too but I really enjoyed eating as much as I wanted to of it out of the container. If there was no peanut butter I would eat several handfuls of peanuts. Sometimes I would eat both as a snack. If I went a few days without eating either one I would crave them that much more and then I would give in to my urges and feel bad about it later. I stopped buying peanut butter all together because I can't control myself. My dad lives with me and he loves peanuts too so that makes it hard on me to give those up considering there's like three containers of them in the house. In all honesty, I'm stuck. I'm trying to cut my habits but it's quite hard and I don't know why I'm addicted to peanuts and peanut butter. Any other food is just food to me but the other two I've been mentioning are absolutely addicting to me. I often wonder if my issues with anxiety have anything to do with. I know that to an extent I'm turning into an emotional eater and that is not something I'm proud of. Has anyone else dealt with something like this?

[Agora1]

Sometimes, our cravings for certain foods have to do with a deficiency in our diet.

Emotional eating usually is around a variety of foods that we feel satisfies a need

in us. Having a visit to your GP may explain the Peanut Butter cravings. xx

[Dolphin14]

I went through this a few months ago. It's strange. But I needed peanut butter every day. It was a craving.

I just had to stop it. It's in the house. I don't touch it. If I do it's the serving size just to satisfy getting the taste of it.

Peanuts I do still eat. Same thing serving size.

[Tikirob]

Did you give something up before you started eating the peanut butter?

[WinterinOz in reply to Tikirob]

Nope. My diet was the same before I started eating the peanuts and peanut butter.

[Tikirob in reply to WinterinOz]

Ok I just thought maybe you had a prior coping habit you stopped. I started eating pie a la mode and having three cups of coffee after dealing with some stressors. I never did that before and next thing I know it was a weekly occurrence. Peanut butter could be a way to break your energy lots of people have different reactions to it. It could be that it just tastes so awesome too!