How to stop boredom or depressive eating? - Health, Fitness, and ...

HopefulFlower Snowy Owl Joined: Jul 19, 2013 Age: 17 Posts: 146 Location: California, US
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smudge Your worst nightmare Joined: Sep 07, 2006 Age: 25 Posts: 2308 Location: London
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alpineglow Phoenix Joined: Aug 13, 2012 Posts: 896	Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 3:51 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: How to stop boredom or depressive eating? HopefulFlower wrote: I'm a depressive and bored eater. Lately I've felt great but when I do get depressed or bored I don't want to eat because of it. Help? I put on 6 pounds because of it. I'M TRYING TO LOSE. I want to go back to my old weight before I was put on all these meds that put it on me (Which I am now on a new med that counter acts them on that side effect) which was 110 at 5ft7-slightly underweight but nothing bad or dangerous or anything like that.... I have a ways to go. But I'm a determined girl. As it turns out though I'm ALSO a boredom and depressive eater at the same time. Ugh. My bad habit is WAY too much soda. I drink soda to stop boredom or depressive eating. How do I stop this depressive and boredom eating? Help? I think you already know the answer, since you said that your habit of drinking soda is bad. That's right, soda is bad. One thing that helps a lot is to stop buying it. Instead, buy plain seltzer water in the large containers if you have to have bubbly liquid. Put a squeeze of lemon or lime or for fancy a few raspberries in the glass, ice, and fill it up with seltzer. yum. I stop bored and depressive eating with walks, jogs, bike rides (I have a stand that my bike sits on to 'spin' indoors in the hot summer) and by eating a lot of raw vegetables, seeds like pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds, and always have some protein in the refrigerator to snack on. Hard boiled eggs are cheap and highly nutritious. Hope that helps. :)
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benh72 Sea Gull Joined: Jun 17, 2013 Posts: 241	Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:30 am?? ?Post subject: It's with some irony that I note that the post below this one was titled exercise. I think that pretty much covers it. However to be a little less flippant. I have faced the same issue. I tend to sit in front of the TV, and eat because that's what you do when you watch TV, sit on the couch and eat. I try to keep it to healthier food, such as fruit, nuts, and whole foods. So far as the soda, I drink a little ginger beer, or lemon lime and bitters - I use cordial mixed with mineral water. The rest of the time I usually drink filtered water, or plain mineral water. I've also dabbled with the 5/2 diet, where you eat normally 5 days per week, and eat a reduced diet 2 days. I've found with this I become more mindful of what I eat, am more aware of when I feel full, and actually start to feel full sooner than I used to, so this in turn reduces how much I eat. Exercise is also important. It is a fact that the difference between putting on weight, losing it, or remaining the same, is finding the right balance between the food (energy) you put into your body, and the energy you use. You cannot lose weight simply by eating less if you are still not burning off the excess energy or fat in your body. Similarly, if you have a good balanced diet and exercise regularly, and ensure you don't consume more food than your body needs you will not put on weight. Medications that make you put on weight often do so because they slow your metabolism, reduce your feeling of being full, or increase your appetite. I know it all sounds simplistic, and in writing it is, but in practice it is not. I hate every time I look in the mirror, and whilst I see a 41 year old man with a slight "spare tyre", my mind sees a grossly overweight slob. I also recall being underweight until my mid 20's, and being almost skeletal as a teenager. There is no cure for the disconnect between our mental body image, and what we actually appear like to others. There is also no quick fix for keeping in shape. However the sooner you find a routine you can stick to that works with your other commitments, the sooner you can feel ownership of your health, and both make yourself look and feel better. There is no substitute for determination and hard work. and no reward worth having that doesn't require these two ingredients.
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Shatbat Flying Bison Joined: Feb 20, 2012 Age: 20 Posts: 5137 Location: South America	Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 9:12 am?? ?Post subject: My sister had a similar problem the last six months when she was in another country, she was depressed and stressed out all the time, and also quite bored, as she didn't have much to do and didn't have as much friends as back here. She ended up binge-eating and gaining a noticeable amount of weight, around 25 pounds, despite her high metabolism. She said binge-eating calmed her down and made her feel good. She lost the majority of it when I went back though, for several reasons. My company did help make her less depressed and bored, and as I spent a good part of the day with her I could stop her from eating too much. She also stopped herself as she didn't want me to see her eating so much . And we did things together which stopped the boredom In general, if you're a depressed or bored eater, what you really need to address in the long term is the underlying cause, you being bored and depressed. I don't have enough knowledge to say something about the second, but for the first one the answer would be, as smudge said, to find something to fill out your day. A hobby, something you want to learn to do, perhaps go out with friends more often if you like such things, anything productive in general would do. Because if you're bored and depressed it's all too easy to fill up that time with something unproductive, which may not make you gain weight but is still a bad use of your time. In the short term, yes, I guess the sparkling water idea would do. Determination and hard work are useful indeed, but they only go so far. Drinking lots of soda is a symptom, not the cause, and if you spend your willpower on fighting the symptoms you'll be wasting it, when you could be fighting the causes instead. _________________ You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. - Fred Rogers
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