Emotional eating - or just needing extra weight?

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Hi all, just got back from attending a conference out of town. The trip was

pleasant enough but I found myself eating without hunger or paying attention to

my body (other than thinking I was too fat).

I just can't get myself to honor my body's hunger as any attempt at restriction

feels like a rule and I am into rebellion before I can even think.

I did wait for hunger initially on IE and it was great - then, just like with a

diet, I fell off the wagon and haven't been able to get back into waiting for

hunger at all. So, obviously it became a rule to me and I'm stuck in my ages-old

rebellion.

Plus, I think I really need to address my emotional eating as I can see how over

the course of the past three days I was eating due to my emotions. I don't know

how to stop mid-course though; I'm always waiting for a stress-free time to get

on top of my eating.

It was a nice trip where I got to stay at a fabulous resort in the mountains.

Unfortunately the topic was on recently enacted assisted suicide laws and it was

a real downer. Important, yes I understand, but truthfully I have enough

depressing content every day at work so going to a retreat/workshop and taking

that in for two days was - stressful. Especially having lost three members of

my immediate family in the last few years - death and dying I was not really up

for. Know what I mean?

Plus I went with a friend who was really needy and high maintenance, so I sat

and stuffed myself around her. I like her, but wow, what a complainer! Gees,

no wonder I've been eating so much chocolate. I hadn't really thought that out.

Maybe I would have been more in touch with my feelings (and possible CHOICES) if

I hadn't been so quick to eat past them. Dang!

So... has anyone had success with stopping eating when stressed mid stress??

I'm great at retrospectives - but that's not really helpful if one wants to stop

eating compulsively is it?

And... any thoughts on how to move past the diet rebellion with regards to

making rules out of IE? How is waiting for hunger not a rule??? When does a

rule become a choice? I don't get it. I just don't.

Sandarah