Stress Eating

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So in the past half hour I have consumed a piece of glazed donut cake, a chocolate brownie, a mug full of potato chips and a bag of heavily buttered popcorn.

Ugh. I feel so disgusting. I had a really bad panic attack tonight and I had to cancel some plans that I was really excited for which made me look back at all the things that I've missed because of my ptsd and I felt like life was passing me by and Ive just missed so much.

I just got more and more anxious until I couldn't handle it anymore and even after I used some of my more negative coping skills that usually work I was still so anxious that I just started eating and eating. I do this all the time and it's making me gain so much weight but I can't stop myself.

I worked so hard this week at being healthy and working out and I just ruined it all and I just feel depressed and still anxious now.

How do I stop doing this? I feel like I should be able to just not do it but in the moment I feel like I have to or I'm going to fall apart.

Help? :(

 

[Heather]

Sorry you are having a hard time. Please don't be hard on yourself. We all falter at times. Remember two steps forward, one step back. You are human. I wish I had more constructive suggestions.

But I feel your pain and understand about anxiety. Mine has been awful.

Take care of yourself the best way you know how.

Hugs.

Heather

 

[Sandstone]

I worked so hard this week at being healthy and working out and I just ruined it all

No, you had one moment against a week. There are 168 hours in a week, and you succeeded in 167.5 of them. What was it that made you able to do so well in all those hours?

I do know how hard it is, I struggle with comfort eating binges too. Have you looked at positive coping skills and spent time practising them?

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I get it so much

I end up in a binge often...

Sometimes what helps me is to stock up on low calorie food to quickly fill me up, so I cannot force any more food into me.

Fruit, vegetables, and so on

Finding other coping skills also, and ways to ignore eating :hug:

 

[Anarchy]

You really do work hard, just like @Sandstone said.

Perhaps too hard?
Hard enough that once in a while, someone with the sort of spirit that you have, rebels against the strict self management, and enjoys some sweet stuff.

There's a lovely paper by Raymond Bergner, about therapy for a woman who was binging. You can download it from his academia.edu page (you might have to sign up, but it's free and isn't intrusive like LinkedIn or face spook).

You describe the chain of events leading up to the binge, very clearly. With a description which is that good, you have a lot of potential to identify possible missing links that would allow you to interrupt the chain before it gets to binging or SH.

Your avatar pics are really pretty.

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@Anarchy
I will check that out also :) Thank you for putting it out there