hello :)
tldr: not everything is emotional eating; maybe you’re eating as a ritual (i think)
this might be obvious but it wasn’t for me, so i’m just sharing in case it can help anyone
for years i have struggled to understand why i couldn’t just not eat when i wasn’t even hungry or why i had to over eat instead of just having a decent portion of something, etc etc
when i found out about the concept of emotional eating i felt partially understood, but it still didn’t help with my irrational behavior. i still struggled with not acting on these emotions.
recently, in the midst of struggling with some stuff related to ocd, i had somewhat of an insight - i was triggered by my house being a complete mess and i had just made a recipe that served 5 portions and for some reason i just HAD to eat all of them (fortunately i was able to leave the last one alone). later that day, i felt compelled to order a specific takeout even though i wasn’t hungry and had food at home. that’s when i realized that this wasn’t exactly emotional eating, those were some form of ocd rituals. i had a lot to do at home and i also had 5 portions of a recipe and i felt obligated to complete eating them, something like that.
i still need to talk to my therapist about this to sort things out and i’m also not an expert, just sharing my experience since i feel like i finally can control these episodes better now that i think i understand them! i hope this helps in some way
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