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On 5/19/2004 at 6:13 PM TSHandelman@... wrote:

>Another thing is really facing what's going on during times of emotional
>eating. What sort of emotional eater are you? Do you prepare a full 
plate=
of food
>and sit down and eat? Are you like me and snitch little bites here and 
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re
>until you've eaten the equivalent of a meal without realizing it?

a combination of the two. i prepare a full-yet-small plate of food, and 
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ll keep on preparing that plate until the emotions become handleable.

>Catching yourself in the act can short circuit the sham comfort you
>are seeking from food.=20=20

i wish that worked - i'm well aware of what i'm doing, yet there's nothing 
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else to take its place.

>Start realizing that your anger frustration sadness longing -- whatever 
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>emotion -- simply does not respond to food; you may get a sort of drugged
>feeling of relief for a short time but eating doesn't help a bad emotional=
state.

quite true, but sometimes that feeling of relief is all i need to get to 
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eep, or stop grinding my teeth, or whatever other excessive and bad-for-me 
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stress response i'm encountering.

>This is a very tough habit to break; I am dealing with it daily and would 
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love
>more suggestions!!

same here! i'm fine most days, but that emotional eating thing is really 
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ndermining me.

~risa