| machasom
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Hi, I struggle with emotional eating. Especially sweet, sugary things. I'm restarting SBD today and I'm wondering for those of you with experience beyond 2 days on phase one. When do the cravings go away??
I've had a very hard time sticking to ANY plan due to bingeing and emotional eating and I'm frustrated although I really want to make it work.
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Fri May 09, 2008 10:39 am |
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| Bortass
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Well, I've never really had craving issues on P1 which is odd since I did have 'cravings' to eat 4 poptarts at a time etc. So I can't help there.
Do you know what causes the emotional eating? Is there anything you can do to help reduce the impact of it? It sounds like a root cause for your struggle, so if you can somehow resolve it, things should get easier for you.
The real important thing is that this is long term. Don't let something you ate discourage you from your longterm goal. You can do this. It may be challenging at times, but it's a battle you can win as long as you don't give up.
So don't get frustrated. Accept it for what it is and continue trying to move forward. |
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Fri May 09, 2008 12:01 pm |
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| RedRox
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FWIW, SB doesn't really deal very well with emotional eating issues and it is unlikely to stop the desire to eat sugary sweet things that are coming from an emotional response. The "cravings" it helps kick are those that are food based themselves, in that the less high glycemic foods you eat, the less insulin spikes and resulting drops there are, the more stable your your blood sugars, the less you get "feed me NOW" hunger pangs. That typically "happens" during the two weeks of P1 at some point, since that is really the primary purpose of P1 (not weight loss). Also if you are eating regular meals and snacks (and you should be eating one of those every 2-3 hours), and you are not getting as hungry overall, then you should hopefully be able to resist the emotional urges to eat sweet treats a little bit more. SB is not a "magic bullet" in this, or any other, regard.
But the sweet treat urges aren't really hunger based to begin with so not feeling hungry due to the SB program doesn't have as much of an effect on the emotional eating binges. Those you have to come to grips with on your own or through other processes. It's a good time to do so in conjunction with changing to a health eating lifestyle though! good luck and best wishes! |
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Fri May 09, 2008 1:30 pm |
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| heather87
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I tend to be an emotional eater, too, and it's always cookies/chocolate/sweets, etc. I ust startd phase 2 a few days again, and to be honest the cravings for those emotional sweets don't ever go away. SBD won't take care of tht issue. BUT there is good news, at least from my own experience. You may still want the sweets when you're stressed etc., but once you've done the program for a bit you'll keep reminding yourself that it's not worth it. Yeah, you're stressed and wow a chocolate bar would feel soooo good right now. But then you make yourself think about what it will feel liek AFTEr you eat it. At least I know that i start thinking"but i've laready done over 2 weeks...i'm already losing weight...and i can eat that chocoalte bar but when i'm done ill still be stressed about that work but then i'l be even more miserable because i just wasted all of my hard diet work on a stupid chocoalte bar that won't satisfy my craving because i'll always just keep wanting it. You'll realize that you're not hungry since you've had your rqeuired food today..you just want ot eat because you're emotional. And then what was the point of spending time on the diet if you're just going to break it now?
So basically, if you can push through these next couple of days and weeks, you'll start to get the same mentality--which will probably help you get over the emotinal eating anyways! |
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Fri May 09, 2008 1:39 pm |
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| machasom
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Thank you all for your advice. I have a young son with autism so daily things are often a struggle and will undoubtably continue to be for years to come. I know I have to get the eating part under control becuase it just makes me feel worse in the end.
Heather, thanks for your post, it made me feel a lot better. It makes sense to me that if I can make it through the first few days it will get easier. |
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Fri May 09, 2008 4:49 pm |
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