{"id":1409,"date":"2020-12-01T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:49:09","slug":"emotional-eating-help-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/emotional-eating-help-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Emotional Eating Help Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emotional Eating Help<\/p><\/div>\n

First thanks for this site. It was my first really good resource that made me feel more grounded.<\/p>\n

I Felt like giving Up<\/h3>\n

I started out trying new and different diets to see if that would control or cure my overeating. It’s like I knew in the back of my head that it wasn’t going to work, a small voice inside that I brushed away cause, what else was I going to do?<\/p>\n

So of course they didn’t work and I spent years looking around to see if anything would. I knew I was an emotional eater but had no clue that anything could be done about that. I thought I had to fix it on the level of my diet and “learn” to eat better.<\/p>\n

Trying out new habits and slowing myself down before eating and stuff. Then I came across a post in a forum where one guy talked about being an emotional eater<\/strong><\/a> and I lit up, knowing that’s where I had to start to fix my problem.<\/p>\n

I looked online<\/strong> and read some interesting articles which helped a bit but it wasn’t until I started talking to others in a forum that I got a better understanding of what I was up against.<\/p>\n

One of them led me to this site and I read and read until 2:00am. Each paragraph had me saying, “Yup that’s me … or I do that, or that would help for sure.”<\/p>\n

I realized that this wasn’t just a diet thing, that I had to go into my feelings. It did help to talk to that group and we chatted back and forth for hours sometimes. It led me to understand that I needed to process whatever was going on with me and process a lot. Just coping<\/strong><\/a> wasn’t enough.<\/p>\n

I started reading as much as I could and started talking and talking. I remembered my grandmother for some reason and all of the conversations we used to have. I really miss her and wished she was still here.<\/p>\n

I always felt better after spending time with her and put in those 2 crosses in the picture because of her. She gave me the smaller one and she had the larger (now mine) and it was like her version of friendship bracelets.<\/p>\n

As of now I’m still with that group, chatting away with our keyboards and feeling a slight change happening. My weight is also under control for the first time in years thanks to some diet modifications and a solid plan.<\/p>\n

I don’t know of any official place to get help online for emotional eating<\/strong> but I think it’s mostly about therapy anyway. I could have tried every single diet out there and still had this problem.<\/p>\n

My advice to anyone reading would be to just get people to talk to like I did. Find a forum or a group on FB or just make friends with anyone who’s awake and ready to talk, you don’t even have to know them.<\/p>\n

Good luck everyone and take it seriously if you want to get better.<\/p>\n

– Celine<\/p>\n

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First thanks for this site. It was my first really good resource that made me feel more grounded. I Felt like giving Up I started out trying new and different diets to see if that would control or cure my overeating. It’s like I knew in the back of my head that it wasn’t going to work, a small voice inside that I brushed away cause, what else was I going to do? So of course they didn’t work and I spent years looking around to see if anything would. I knew I was an emotional eater but had no <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatinglove.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}