Ha, me too. i lose weight, life stays calm for a bit then something happens in my family and it all piles back on. I've tried CBT but maybe my head wasn't in the right place at the time or it just wasn't right for me I don't know. But I was too ashamed to keep a food diary even until I went onto the fasting stage of my bing/fast cycle.
Now I'm having counseling and have been there on and off for some years and something seems to have changed in my thinking. More sh!t has hit the fan, I'm really worried about one of my children and my husband is still not fully recovered from health problems last year but some how the chocolate and biscuits are not calling to me like they were. I'm able to get back and focus on yet another weight loss journey.
This counseling was not particularly about weight loss, but it seems to have been strengthening me, giving me support when the world comes crashing down around my ears and just helping me to get to a place where I can cope and that seems to be helping my 'maladaptive coping mechanism'. That's what one professional referred to my child's self harm as, and I've taken the phrase for my stress eating.
I notice this post was from a couple of weeks ago, how are you now? What are you doing to try to help yourself?