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Emotional Eating

Do you ever have those days where everything just goes wrong? Well, so far, I’m having one of those weeks.

What’s bad about that, besides the endless frustration, is the emotional eating! I don’t know about you, but I’m an emotional eater. Sure I eat to celebrate stuff, but mostly, I overeat and/or eat bad things when I’m sad/frustrated. Basically, when I get down in the dumps I can’t be trusted around food.

Lately I’ve done better. I’ve been frustrated since Sunday and it took until Monday night for me to start piling in the junk. Sure I stayed within my calorie range for the day, but I ate terrible stuff so I was low on protein and high in fat and carbs . . . oh and probably sugar.

Emotional eating is one of those monsters that can be extremely difficult to tame because most of us have been using eating like a band-aid for so long that it’s become second nature, we just do it. So, I guess that’s the next goal on my hit list. Learn to STOP eating just because I’m sad about something. I’m sure I won’t be able to do it cold turkey, but I WILL kick this emotional eating habit . . . eventually!