Published on 12, July, 2020
Why do they refer to comfort eating when it is anything but a comfort afterwards? I try hard to eat well and normally eat only small portions but sometimes the urge to eat more is just too much. I made two helpings of Millionaires Short Bread and ate them both over two days. It felt great at first but when I had eaten, then the guilt trip starts, the loathing. There is little comfort in comfort eating!
Try the apple test. You want to eat so instead of having a biscuit think about if you could eat an apple. If the answer is "yes" you are hungry so eat the apple. If the answer is "no i don't want an apple" then you aren't hungry so don't eat anything. I do find when my anxiety is flaring I tend to comfort eat. Maybe don't do baking. I don't because I just end up eating it all.
I have boiled eggs in a fridge and tinned mackarel in tomato sauce in a cupboard
out_of_step said:to eat so instead of having a biscuit
I do not want to consider what could happen if I started eating sweet things like last winter on regular basis, and I eat a lot, plus many snacks in between, plus comfort eating
Mariusz said:tinned mackarel in tomato sauce
*Shakes head in disagreement*