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<blockquote data-quote="SearchingForRainbows" data-source="post: 205101" data-attributes="member: 3388"><p>Trinity,</p><p></p><p>Thanks so much for sharing the information your therapist gave you. I'm going to give it a try. I'm going to try to substitute brushing and flossing my teeth when I get the urge to eat emotionally during the day. This has worked for me in the past. </p><p></p><p>After dinner is the hardest time for me. I'm going to start leaving the kitchen as soon as I've finished cleaning it up. (I was successful doing this in the past). I'm going to brush and comb my "favorite sanity saver" every night. She has really long fur, and being a bit over 80 lbs. now, it takes a while to make her soft and silky. Although she loves the TLC, she really doesn't like getting groomed. Hopefully, by the time I'm done, the urge to eat emotionally will have passed. If not, I'll brush and floss my teeth for the evening. </p><p></p><p>I think I eat emotionally because I feel so all alone... easy child (at the moment) and my difficult children are totally self-centered and NEVER stop to think about doing anything at all for me unless I ask. And, even when I ask, it's difficult to get them to follow through without lots of grumbling, etc... husband is too tired and too stressed to care about how I'm feeling - A different thread but one that I really don't want to get into. So, I continue to feel like a worn out, wrung out door mat... Everyone wants me to do things for them all of the time - No one cares about me, my feelings, my needs, etc... I feel like a robot on auto pilot much of the time... </p><p></p><p>Marg,</p><p></p><p>I like your idea about drinking water or another no or low calorie beverage when I get the urge to emotionally eat. I usually eat a piece of fruit first, but even fruit has calories that can add up. </p><p></p><p>I think getting more creative in the kitchen will help me. Although I don't garden much, I find that when I'm busy in the kitchen preparing a new dish, or just being more creative than usual, I eat less. I'm going to get more adventurous with dinners. I think I've gotten into a rut where I prepare the same old meals over and over again. Part of the reason is that my husband and my kids are very picky eaters. Sometimes I prepare two meals - one for them and one for myself. It is time consuming and drives me crazy!!! My family is going to have to learn to be less picky!!!</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry that your torn muscle isn't healed yet. I know this happened to you quite awhile ago. I hope your doctors can help you with the neurological problems that are causing pain in your arms. I think it is so difficult when mentally we want to exercise but physically we can't... </p><p></p><p>Trinity and Marg, Thanks again for the support and advice!!! WFEN</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SearchingForRainbows, post: 205101, member: 3388"] Trinity, Thanks so much for sharing the information your therapist gave you. I'm going to give it a try. I'm going to try to substitute brushing and flossing my teeth when I get the urge to eat emotionally during the day. This has worked for me in the past. After dinner is the hardest time for me. I'm going to start leaving the kitchen as soon as I've finished cleaning it up. (I was successful doing this in the past). I'm going to brush and comb my "favorite sanity saver" every night. She has really long fur, and being a bit over 80 lbs. now, it takes a while to make her soft and silky. Although she loves the TLC, she really doesn't like getting groomed. Hopefully, by the time I'm done, the urge to eat emotionally will have passed. If not, I'll brush and floss my teeth for the evening. I think I eat emotionally because I feel so all alone... easy child (at the moment) and my difficult children are totally self-centered and NEVER stop to think about doing anything at all for me unless I ask. And, even when I ask, it's difficult to get them to follow through without lots of grumbling, etc... husband is too tired and too stressed to care about how I'm feeling - A different thread but one that I really don't want to get into. So, I continue to feel like a worn out, wrung out door mat... Everyone wants me to do things for them all of the time - No one cares about me, my feelings, my needs, etc... I feel like a robot on auto pilot much of the time... Marg, I like your idea about drinking water or another no or low calorie beverage when I get the urge to emotionally eat. I usually eat a piece of fruit first, but even fruit has calories that can add up. I think getting more creative in the kitchen will help me. Although I don't garden much, I find that when I'm busy in the kitchen preparing a new dish, or just being more creative than usual, I eat less. I'm going to get more adventurous with dinners. I think I've gotten into a rut where I prepare the same old meals over and over again. Part of the reason is that my husband and my kids are very picky eaters. Sometimes I prepare two meals - one for them and one for myself. It is time consuming and drives me crazy!!! My family is going to have to learn to be less picky!!! I'm sorry that your torn muscle isn't healed yet. I know this happened to you quite awhile ago. I hope your doctors can help you with the neurological problems that are causing pain in your arms. I think it is so difficult when mentally we want to exercise but physically we can't... Trinity and Marg, Thanks again for the support and advice!!! WFEN [/QUOTE]
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