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Originally Posted by kissie  Hi everyone, I'm 24, doomed and new here as well.
I have a eating/depressing disorder. When I get depressed, stressed, bored, lonely I eat ....not just anything but junk food.
I eat bad food and I just don't stop. I feel like nibbling all the time. So I buy a big packet of chips everyday. In the office I eat, at home I eat, Driving I eat.
Burgers, Pizzas, Choc cakes, biltong and fudge, all that kind of food.
It gets worse after eating all that junk I feel bad and then I get more depressed and guess what?...... I get some chocolate or ice cream or sweets to make myself feel better. I used to exercise to balance it out so I don't get fat but I think I'm gaining and getting lazy and lazier. I can't run for a long time now, honestly I don't run anymore, I walk a very short distance and call it a day.
I've tried all sort of diet and when I fail to keep up, I eat more. When I go shopping, I go to bakery, sweets and biscuit section and thats my shopping right there. I've ran out of food to spoil myself cuz I do it daily. I love my body very much and I don't want to spoil it and I want to be health as well.How do I do it without shooting myself in the foot. |
You have to find a way to disassociate food from lifting your moods.
The issue here isn't food or overeating. The issue is this depression. If you fix the depression and find new ways to cope with negative emotions, your troubles with food will be greatly reduced.
To fix the depression, we've got to get to the root of WHY you get depressed, angry, bored, etc. Figure that out, write down all the reasons you think you could be, and then think about the ways you learned to cope with those issues.
As Angela (on this board) likes to say, it's likely you are reactivating old pain and using these things to try and cope with it. But she can explain all that better than I can.
