I don’t even think I know what hunger feels like because I’m always eating. I don’t even want to eat my mouth just wants to chew something. I feel sometimes I need a dog chew toy lmaoo
Summary of the video's 1. We use food as a way of distraction, sedation or punishment. We fix our mood and emotions with food. Food brings nostalgia and enjoyment but emotional eating becomes a way of coping with negative emotions. 2. Feel your negative emotions (being bored brings us anxiety) so recognize it, journal it daily, feel your feelings and process them in your mind. Do some meditation, feel it, think why you are feeling it. 3. Ask if you are actually hungry. Does your body need a taste or a meal? Will this make you feel better? Listen to your body (your brain IS part of your body). If you are not physically hungry, it's ok, have a cookie and satisfy your cookie so you don't overeat later. 4. Create a list of 3-5 things you can do when you are bored. Keep the list handy, evaluate your hunger, entertain yourself. You are not avoiding eating, you are handling your boredom. Do the activity for free minutes and think if you still want the food. If yes, go for it. We we are not creating restriction! 5. Nothing is bad, everything is a learning experience. Sit down, feel and reflect about the food you just ate (did it feel good or not?). Let these emotions sink in, learn from the experience/emotions of eating certain food. Process and file this knowledge, what would you do differently next time? 6. Check in with your hunger. You can be hungry and bored.
I've been comfort eating a bit since I got my first job a few weeks ago. It's not crazy, but feel like I have less control than I did and it's scary. Even tho everything I eat is very healthy I still need to regain control. Thanks for the vid, it helped
Best thing to do is be very forgiving of yourself and that you're a person. We all sometimes nibble or gorge a bit in tines of stress and tension. It takes practice etc
Honestly, i thoughy this too, but then i often eat takeaway curries full with oil and sugar and salt and then i used to drink chocolate milk full of sugar so, i definately find that i need to evaluate myself better
i noticed a theme with this video(no hate to the creator). she relates boredom eating to eating because you are sad and or anxious. which a two VERY different things. boredom eating is generally the feeling(especially for me) of "i just want to eat this because i like the feeling in my mouth and i like the flavor, i just want something to do while I'm watching TV, working, ECT..." so i found this video less helpful because of the message delivered. but this video may be helpful to others. just my personal thought and opinions, feel free to ignore them.
This is so helpful. I'm at work right now and things have winded down so I got bored and ate a brownie and now I feel sick. Similar things happen often which led me to think I'm Just boredom eating and not hungry since the extra food is making me feel bad
Fasting did help me to get in tune with my body better, but I don't force anything. I definitely do NOT graze either. I think the fasting people have a good point about not constantly spiking insulin.... but yeah. I'm just trying to focus on not over eating and listen to my body. It's great 👍
This really helped! I always find after a long hard day at work I look forward to sitting down on my couch with a soda and ice cream or something sweet while I watch netflix or some youtube videos and its become a safe spot for me and a part of my routine. After doing this for so many years I started to not really pay attention to it as a treat and more of a necessity like "I always have my soda and ice cream after a long day and it makes me feel comfortable and safe". I started to realize my. waist. band changing and its made me really upset and I didn't understand why because I never eat breakfast, my lunch is small, my dinner is a bit too big but i ALWAYS have a snack at night. That. is pushing me over my calories and I don't make healthy choices either. I am starting to work on telling myself that this late night snack is okay e very so often but not every night or if I do need something I try to make it healthier like an apple with some peanut butter. I never really realized I was emotional eating or distracted eating until I took a step back to see what. I was doing EVERYDAY to myself. Thank you for this!
hey! something i’ve always wondered is if when you’re body craves certain foods, is it because you are lacking those nutrients? like if i’m craving avocado, is it because i need more fat? or is it purely a taste thing??
I think it's a bit of both. Your body remembers what the food offers you (nutritionally and taste) and therefore alerts you with cravings. Not sure if that makes sense 😂
Sometimes. I found when I was getting low in iron, I had a huge craving for meat. Other than that, it's more common with macro nutrients. When I used to be lower fat in my diet, all I would want to eat were nuts , oily veg, bacon, dairy, etc
Hi colleen I am 16 and have struggled with eating disorder I have started intuitive eating but I never know If I am fully satisfied or not. I feel mouth hunger all the time. I feel empty in my stomach after overeating too. Pls suggest some advices
I chew gum when my mouth wants to eat something. Making my stomach feel full takes time. I have to stop overeating at meals. I eat small meals and track my calories to make sure I’m eating a healthy amount. After a few weeks, my stomach is usually trained to feel full after a reasonable amount of food.
I think they both involve being disconnected to yourself on a certain level, but eating when bored is more of a disconnect with your true self and your authentic inspiration, passion and curiosity for life and mental hunger is a disconnect with your body and your natural hunger and satiation cues.
Haha I think you were talking about Greg doucette saying that food is just nourishment, as soon as I watched that I immediately thought of how you’d disagree 😉
I spent decades telling myself I can't enjoy sweets during the holidays. We would never buy chocolates for holidays. This year we bought a few different kinds and gave ourselves permission to enjoy a few here and there. Helps to damp down the drive to eat it all in one sitting but a desire to stretch it out through the season if desired.😂
So glad you are allowing yourself the holiday sweets and treats!!! It so much easier to allow all the foods and enjoy them in a way that feels good! Great work!
I try to find advice from videos because I am a teen in poverty and we can't afford a therapist or anything but I'm a binge eater and I dont know how to stop even after listening to these videos 😅
Sometimes I think it’s even because I just want something to do/ (especially) LOOK FORWARD TO. Which is really depressing when you think about it. Sometimes I’ll just be sitting there on a day off of when I get off work and I have nothing to do. But the event of cooking something and going and getting something and eating it’s all an event and something to make time worth while. And it’s non stop too, like I can eat and eat and eat and never feel TRUE satiation. Idk if I’m even accurately saying what I want to. And don’t even get me stated on my sugar addiction. I can live in sweets alone. Sugar should be a drug
You put my issue into a great explanation. I have the same problem of looking forward to food, kind of like when looking forward to or anticipating your favorite subject in school 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
My weak point is the toolkit or list. I emotionally eat when I'm bored in the afternoons as I look after my child - I hastily stuff something in my face in the pantry, then go back to him. I don't have time for a walk, a podcast, a bath, gardening, dancing, reading a book - because I am mum, meaning I'm busy-bored. Taking the kid outside or dancing with him doesn't do the trick. Same thing when I get bored at work. So what I need in both instances is a quick fix, and I haven't yet found one that would keep me from eating. (And no, for many reasons I cannot change jobs right now.)
I’m in anorexia recovery for like 3 weeks now and like my mental hunger is like so loue ! Like I want to eat all the time and I cant trust my hunger cues bc I lost physical hunger so Idk if I’m boredom eating or not like I want to eat all the time and i’m not even feeling full. What I’m supposed to do ?
So, would u recommend having a cookie that i crave, even tho i have just eaten, or if i am full, Should i still have the cookie, i was unsure avout what u were recommending
@@ezorist well… I’m finally starting to get over my food addiction and binge eating. I’m thinking I’m gonna slowly start to cut calories and get my weight down. I’m 280 lbs 16 years old. The weight I started at when I was 13 was 128 lbs. I wanna get back to around that weight. Probably not exactly back to 128. More like 135 to 145 maybe would be good. It’s hard af tho. I’ve gotta do it though. Gaining all this weight has fucked my life up so much.
The fact that there are people who can literally not eat for weeks & I can't skip even one meal. Seriously, how much willpower should you have even in order to be able to do something like that?
i have noticed when sitting in front of the computer that the body gets bored and want to eat something dont now if its the mind that is bored of the body
I get this all the time. I have a desk job and if there is work that I don’t want to do I avoid it by finding something to eat. However after watching this video I made a list of other things to do for 5 or 10 minutes to forget about food. I think taking a small break and getting away from the computer for some fresh air will allow the urge to eat to pass, unless I’m truly hungry
