TEAM SKINNY 03/01/08 (March Madness) (Page 30)

comet the dog - 2008-03-28 8:22 PM

stephlari - 2008-03-27 7:44 PM Good luck with beating chocoholism! We should start a CA group... I'll start: Hi, my name is Stephanie and I am a chocoholic.

hi stephanie my name is rob and i love chocolate too. if it is there i will eat it. my kids have learned not to leave it lying around.

I'm in... Hi, my name is Trudi.  I'm a chocoholic.  I just ate the last of my kid's easter bunny.  (and hoping he doesn't notice )

Hi my name is Brian and I am Anti-Veggie.

Oops.  wrong thread. 

Woo hoo!!  10 mile bike then 10 mile run BRICK.  15.69mph bike/9:18 min mile run.

Now I better eat something. 

steph - taker of regular anti-depressants here. glad you felt like you could share with us few bits of advice - don't always try and comfort eat. every now we slip but don't let it be your regular response. go exercise. two great reasons for this: 1. you will lose weight, 2. the endorphins are amazing. i ride 5 days a week and boy do i miss it if i am sick/it's blowing gales!

get professional help with the depression; i got cbt recently it made the HUGEST difference ever!

also: if you are in two weeks of stress do what you can to get through - easier meals, cut back a bit on the exercise if you need to (do NOT cut it out!!!!!), enjoy that massage etc

and pop into my blog if you ever need and say hi  

stephlari - 2008-03-28 12:47 PM Ok, so this is kind of personal and I hesitate to mention it because I am new here, but I really need to find a solution to this because it's really not a good feeling... I've noticed that when I eat only my alloted number of calories without stuffing my face on junk, that emptiness (loneliness) in me that I've been trying to shut up with all that crap food that is now making me have to diet kind of comes back to the surface and I feel like crap/depressed a lot... So that this week I've basically had one good day and then a bad day because I come home and feel like and rely on my old "emptiness stuffer"... Any ideas what I can do about this? ETA: This is also a rather stressful time of the year as there are 2 weeks left to my semester and I am starting to freak out because of finals and lets just say that the material you see at the end of the semester is SO much harder than what you see at the beginning!!

The Food Is Comfort thing is very, very hard to deal with.  Food is supposed to feel pleasurable and good, after all we probably wouldn't be around if our caveman ancestors turned up their noses and refused to eat.  So, we're programmed to LIKE food.  This is not a bad thing.

The bad comes in when you take the Food is Good feelings and transfer that into Food will make me Feel Good when I feel so damn bad.  

I've had to work really, really hard on this myself - and here's the thing.  Food is NOT the only thing that makes you feel good.  Find some other stuff.  Reward yourself often with non-food things.  Massage is great, but as you said not something you can do every day.  How about, buy a favorite group's CD and listen to it often?  Long hot shower?  Bubble bath?  Reading a favorite book?  Looking at beautiful mountains?  Viewing art? Making art? Painting your nails?  Smelling flowers? 

When rose season is on I'll walk down my street and stop at one house that has amazing rosebushes and just smell them.  Heavenly and doesn't cost me a cent.

Find things that make YOU feel good and then do at least one of those every day.  You can feed your soul without feeding your face.  (Yeah, I know it sounds a little corny, so what?)  I also recommend a book called the "Joy Diet" by Martha Beck if you like the self-help thing.

And, if you feel you are really clinically depressed, get help.  I should have in 2004 instead of laying in bed and stuffing my face for nearly a year before pulling myself out of it. 

No, I think you should stop eating for a week and then come back here and report how you don't feel so good and you don't know why. 

I wonder if Cad is being sarcastic?

Steph,  In some way or another all of us have been depressed and we really do have some good people here.  Maybe not Comet and I am having doubts about Cad, but otherwise pretty good. 

Nice work today Sailing!