Seeing you mention both your parents helping you with things and a food diary has something "pinging" loudly in my head. If this is totally irrelevant to you so be it, but here it is.
I realized, a couple of months ago, that I never fell into the trap of "emotional eating" until I started living alone in college. I wasn't even close to thin before that, but I also wasn't going through multiple pints of ice cream in a week, or a regular-sized bag of salt & vinegar potato chips in a night. I once joked about developing a Cherry Garcia addiction in college; looking back, I wish I'd understood where that came from a little more. Feeling lonely or bored are still two of my biggest EE triggers today. Just pointing out a potential landmine and hoping that it's totally irrelevant to you!
ah, I have been down the emotional eating road already, yes, yes. I think I am getting a bit better - better at resisting, sometimes, the things that will be bad for me. I have incentive, though, now that I am actively also trying not to feel ill. The food diary is part of my overall wellness management effort, which will also hopefully help me out when I go back to the Gastroenterologist later this summer. It is tough being alone, though. Tougher sometimes than I thought it would be. I have friends here, but there's still a bit of "newness" to them, even after a couple of years, that makes it hard to think of myself with the kind of network I had in NY. Still, things are going really well. :) *hugs* thanks for reading!
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I realized, a couple of months ago, that I never fell into the trap of "emotional eating" until I started living alone in college. I wasn't even close to thin before that, but I also wasn't going through multiple pints of ice cream in a week, or a regular-sized bag of salt & vinegar potato chips in a night. I once joked about developing a Cherry Garcia addiction in college; looking back, I wish I'd understood where that came from a little more. Feeling lonely or bored are still two of my biggest EE triggers today. Just pointing out a potential landmine and hoping that it's totally irrelevant to you!
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I think I am getting a bit better - better at resisting, sometimes, the things that will be bad for me.
I have incentive, though, now that I am actively also trying not to feel ill. The food diary is part of my overall wellness management effort, which will also hopefully help me out when I go back to the Gastroenterologist later this summer.
It is tough being alone, though. Tougher sometimes than I thought it would be.
I have friends here, but there's still a bit of "newness" to them, even after a couple of years, that makes it hard to think of myself with the kind of network I had in NY. Still, things are going really well. :)
*hugs* thanks for reading!
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