--- title: "Emotional Eating Series: How I Conquered Binge Eating" description: "Emotional Eating Series: How I Conquered Binge Eating" --- ### Get a Demo # Welcome! Choose your tour type: - BY INDUSTRY - BY FEATURE [![OneFitStop](https://try.hapana.com/hubfs/Onefitstop-April2018/Images/ofs-logo-white.png)![OneFitStop](https://try.hapana.com/hubfs/Onefitstop-April2018/Images/ofs-logo-white-1.png)](https://try.hapana.com/) - Tour - [Community](https://try.hapana.com/community) - Get Demo - [LOGIN](https://www.onefitstop.com/login) search - [Community](https://try.hapana.com/community) - [Blog](https://try.hapana.com/community/blog) - - - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/onefitstop) - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/onefitstop) - [Instagram](http://instagram.com/onefitstop) [Previous Build An Effective Speed, Agility and Quickness Training Routine](https://try.hapana.com/community/build-effective-speed-agility-quickness-training-routine) [Next Healthy Recipe: Warm Up With Lentil and Sweet Potato Stew](https://try.hapana.com/community/healthy-recipe-warm-lentil-sweet-potato-stew) [Lifestyle](https://try.hapana.com/community/tag/lifestyle) # Emotional Eating Series: How I Conquered Binge Eating May 5, 2014 9:13:49 AM [Add comment](https://try.hapana.com/community/emotional-eating-series-conquered-binge-eating#comments-listing) Facebook Twitter [Email](mailto:?body=https://try.hapana.com/community/emotional-eating-series-conquered-binge-eating) Google+ LinkedIN I’ve been thinking lately and I want to start making a change or a difference somewhere and somehow; because I’m fed up with all these gorgeous girls asking me what they can do to get rid of this fat, and “oh does this skinny tea detox work?” I smile and nod, but what really want to do is tell them to shut it. Yup, brutal. Maybe I’m feeling sensitive at the moment? Anyways, this is not a negative post- if anything, this is a kick ass post about how I exterminated my life of emotional eating. I should start by saying that because of my eating issues, I will always live with these in someway- I’m just hoping that way stays insignificant. I’ve blogged before about the many different stages of my eating issues, but here’s a quick recap: ▪   I started my journey as a chubby happy girl who ate whatever and drank whatever I wanted with minimal exercise. I decided to change things and began losing weight thanks to exercise and sensible eating. ▪   The perfectionist in me came out- I restricted, calorie counted and was oh so hard on myself. I got too skinny and became unhealthy. I loved it and wanted more. It took over my life and put ALOT of strain on all my relationships. ▪   I did a half ass attempt at fixing things but became stuck on a number and nothing would change. I was in limbo. ▪   Suddenly I lost all control and started regularly bingeing and emotional eating due to a sickly combination of dealing with negative feelings, hating myself and a super hungry body that wanted more food. I started taking St John’s Wort (and still do), saw a therapist, gained weight, felt really devastated a lot of the time, spent days on end crying, took laxatives. ▪   Only then when I started to overeat (I was fine with undereating but overeating was something I couldn’t live with apparently) did I really commit to getting rid of it all. ▪   A long journey- I grew confidence, I grew bigger (healthier!), I moved away from my ED and I still occasionally binged- but I learned to accept it and move on. \* A big turning point was accepting binges and moving on\*. That brings us to now. I haven’t binged in forever- my first day home after hardly eating disgusting plane food (anyone else hate it?) I overate because I was so hungry- but it was no biggy. I even went through a stage of losing my appetite and finding food possibly the most boring thing ever (I think that was a combo of my body adapting to a schedule after break and anxiety/stress of everything). Right at this very moment, I still get stressed (I mean I am moving house, becoming independent, graduating from/finishing my education degree, becoming a certified PT, dealing with constant injuries and teaching a bazillion classes) but **food is no longer my answer. It’s not the solution to anything.** I love food and always will be a ‘foodie’. I hardly get cravings oddly (except milk lately!) and I love everything I eat. I don’t think people are judging me less (if they ever were?), but I’m judging myself less. I’m not cured (if that’s even the right word for it)…because well I can’t even get on the scale yet, but I’m not suffering emotional eating. This is just one feat- to be honest I don’t really eat fun food but I don’t ever really feel like it; or when I do, laziness usually wins. Would I be okay with eating fun food? Well I’d like to think so but who knows. Maybe that’s my next feat? Total acceptance of all food? But if I can conquer emotional eating I know I can work on other aspects of my eating issues; and hey, you can too! If you have any queries please feel free to comment below. **What are your thoughts?** ▪   **What have you recently conquered?** ▪   **Do you have issues with emotional eating?**     This article has been shared with the author's written permission. 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