Newbie here!

[daftasabrush]

Hi joined today. Looking for some good tips from like minded peeps wanting to change eating habits. Any emotional eaters? Or comfort eater?

[jackx03]

Hi im new today too. I am an emotional eater and today I got my wake up call a patient asked if I was pregnant ....I know I don't look it and for health reasons he has a distorted view but I could do with losing a few stone.

[Aussieblues]

Well if you mean do I eat when I'm happy, sad, fed up, bored, tired or just because I feel I deserve a treat, then yep you will find a lot of us do. Habit changing is definitely 2 steps forward and one back, so slow journey but at least going in right direction. I hadn't even realised how much I pig out when I'm tired! So now I'm aware I'm starting to control it better and stopping from eating so much when I am tired. Welcome

[elaineanne1]

I am a comfort eater and I am trying hard to control it, I eat mostly because I am a mental health carer for my husband and it is not an easy thing to. I do go to the gym and do loads of walking but my weight is staying the same. Keeping postitive helps.

[Nicolaaaa]

Hi yep I'm an emotional eater. Stress can be a big facotr as I then think yeop I deserve a lovely packet of crispS oh crisps I love u so lol. Trying to cut down . Good luck lol

[lyndie123]

I am excellent at emotional eating, one of my greatest strengths. Stress/anxiety/upset - you name it then something gets crammed in my mouth regardless of what it is and it's absolutely nothing to do with hunger. If anything it's almost a panicky feeling. My teeth aren't the strongest and me smashing food with my molars isn't doing any good at all. Met a lady the other day who also has weak teeth and she eats her food really, really slowly because her dentist told her to treat them gently and to chew and eat softly. I've never been able to eat slowly but because of the teeth thing I thought I'd give it a go. If I eat gently and don't fill every corner of my mouth I find that it's taking me much longer to finish eating. All these years of trying to eat slowly and it takes a tip from a dentist to slow me down. Going to try deliberately making myself eat softly (a different process from slowly but has the same effect) when I get stressed because I know I won't be able to stop emotional eating completely. Not yet anyway. Good luck to everyone who has this problem because it is so hard to stop. Any more tips anyone?