Discussion Do you stress eat?

[marcusuk63]

I have hardly eaten and done no food shopping over the last few weeks , cupboards are empty and chest freezer is empty , i eating when i start to shake and feel weak , I`m living on caffeine and nicotine .
I have a permanent single weigh gene though as i have weighed the same for 40 years no matter what i eat or how much , 57kg

 

[Nephthys22]

Yes, at one point I had the bright idea (sarcasm) to try to CBT by giving myself a heart attack. Gained a lot of weight doing that.

 

[XYZ]

No, but I eat stress. Spoonfulls of it. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's what fuels the constant anxiety that governs my life.

 

[Brink]

I've always pigged out when stoned but the last year has been something else.

 

[grungeCat]

I often eat stress, mainly junk food. I guess it's sort of self harm. Maybe I'm not extremely obese but I'm definitely overweight.

 

[Dead beat dad]

I eat like a hog in the fat house and I don't care. I used to have a good metabolism and worked out all the time, so things didn't matter.
Now I'm a fat piece of shit and I'm letting myself go to ruin.
Reading some of the replies here is so sad, how little we care about ourselves.

Love and respect brothers and sisters

DBD

 

[xLosthopex]

I have Anorexia, and alternate between the restrictive subtype and binge/purge subtype, and at the moment I'm b/p
It's one of my main coping mechanisms, right now I spend most of my day binging and purging

 

[Wayfaerer]

Because of my daily kratom usage I go extended periods without eating otherwise it loses it's efficacy. The choice between less suffering + starving and more suffering + satiated is a clear choice in my view.

 

[Addi_Madd]

I currently stress eat and purge at least three times a week because the sensation of being uncomfortably full and then getting rid of it by throwing up are comforting sometimes, and how afterwards I just lie down for a little while without thinking or feeling anything, good or bad. I hesitate to call it bulimia as I'm not motivated by wanting to lose weight or purge calories per se. I do it with water as often as I do it with food.

 

[Ch92921]

No, but I est very fast

 

[TriggerHappy]

um...sorry what was that...I was at the fridge! Just looking, I like to pretend I'm in "control"
wish I had my head literally in the oven today...
♧ I train so I eat (coffee n creatine), I don't like eating
(nauseous memories around toxic family dinnertables cloud my childhood mind..)
my dad used to come home drunk and throw dinner plates. we all have stitches. and well-camouflaged eating disorders.
Then I got hooked on feeling my hip ones when I'm on my back.
a lifetime of loving (& living with ballet dancers!) Boys don't get eating disorders do they?! nnnngh.
Nah, I don't stress eat, I stress starve.

 

[BrokenHopes]

Yes it has made me gain 10-15kg the last months it is horrible. And now I am going to order some food

 

[Mr2005]

When I've got the food which isn't now. Death by chocolate seems a good way to go

 

[FuneralCry]

No, I do not enjoy eating. It is hard work forcing myself to eat food.

 

[Circles]

Yes just for example today after having a bad day I went to McDonald's earlier and got a BigMac, 10 chicken nuggets with barbecue sauce, large fries and a Diet Coke because I'm a blubbering fatass.

 

[Sadness20]

Definitely yes. But I've been on appetite-inducing antidepressants so I've had an excuse to be fat. Kinda at least. Don't know if that makes any sense

 

[TheHatedOne]

Holy cow yes I do, I also eat a lot as a comfort cause I have nothing else in life. But nowadays I wanna starve myself cause I'm way too fat and alcohol already has many calories.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

One small meal a day usually in the evening, slim fast shakes X2 during the day and 8 hunger buddy tablet's at the weekend! I'm 11stone.

 

[cambrai33]

I have such a low sense of worth right now I barely eat, just enough to function, to plan and execute my ct, most importantly to hide my true state of turmoil inside.
If I fall over physically people will realise the full extent of what's overcome me and I might be stopped so I have to keep up appearances as best I can.

I am in counselling but have managed to keep above the score that would mean a safeguarding issue, it's getting harder as my body is giving away tell tale signs (hand twitching, unable to look in the eye, trembling)

So food yes but only enough to survive and function physically

 

[AtMostOkay]

I stress eat and stress starve, depending on the circumstances.

 

[nightnightnitrite]

I've had eating issues my whole life but it's mostly been anorexia and bulimia. I've always been underweight and my body barely functioned sometimes. I started binge eating a couple years back but the most recent slip up was a year ago. My friends father had diabetes and he went down right after my friend left for a second. He couldn't speak or move and it reminded me of when I found my own father dead. I had made a sandwich for him to try and eat when he was still upright but his sugar levels kept going lower and lower and the ambulance was taking forever so I ended up stress eating his sandwich. I made another one before the ambulance got there and saved him but I was so stressed and there was nothing I could do. I feel so bad for doing it but I couldn't help myself.

 

[stygal]

My eating is all over the place. I can easily gain/lose 10 kg in a few months.
Stress is a big factor on whether I eat/starve.
I do not particularly like food yet it's something I will always go back to once I'm off other drugs or in extreme stress. Once an addict, always an addict.
I'm just happy that despite losing/gaining I manage to stay in the "slightly underweight" to normal range.
If it was up to me and I had no internal pressure or hunger I'd just drink fluids for ever - anti-gourmet.

 

[Scribble Fan]

I tend to starve myself when stressed. There's something that feels good about not eating, even though I know it's not healthy. I used to be really underweight, all skin and bones, but then I started to eat more and got kinda fat. Now I'm back to not eating much except breakfast.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

I need to eat more to gain strength. I've been losing more weight than I wanted to, under 85kg now fml.