30 Day Challenge - Change my bad food habits

[James81]

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.

[RobbieInspired]

Day 15 and 16
Have eaten out a lot in the last two days. Trying to eat slowly!
Eating less rubbish between meals.
No potato chips. this is amazing to me!
Eating fruit.
Still eating chocolate - aiming to limit to 2/3 of a packet this week.

I think things are going well. I want to buy some multivitamins and start taking these every day.

[RobbieInspired]

Day 17 and 18

I felt REALLY hungry yesterday, despite having 3 good meals. I ate a lot of chocolate and really just wanted to snack all day.

Am continuing to eat slower, but it doesnt seem to reduce my appetite...

Im still off the chips, but almost fell off the wagon (or back on the wagon??) yesterday.

[RobbieInspired]

Day 19 and 20

I keep forgetting to eat slower. Need to remember to chew my food thoroughly.
I am generally thinking before I eat, whereas previously I would have just eaten whenever I felt like it, and even sometimes when I didnt.
Im off the chips
Still love chocolate.

Need to get some multivitamins tomorrow, and start taking them.

Part of the problem is I dont have enough options of things to eat when i feel hungry. Thats why I often turn to chocolate or other snacks.

[RobbieInspired]

Day 21 and 22

I feel like I am eating less than before. Its still quite hard work at times to stop eating rubbish.

I am still eating chocolate, but probably a lot less than before.

Off the chips completely.

Still, a lot of it is about thinking before you eat.