This is me pleased and happy about something that happened a couple of nights ago. I woke in the early hours of the morning ravenously hungry. so I got up, had a big bowl of cereal, an apple and a banana.
As I was still extremely hungry I started to get myself some more food and then stopped to think. As i had eaten so much it seemed strange that I was still so hungry so I asked myself if it was really hunger for food or an emotional hunger and I realised I'd really woken up worried. When I acknowledged that to myself the hunger lessened and although I was worried - I have some very real worries right now - I felt better for identifying what was really going on for me.
Its strange. I'd heard loads of course about eating to cover emotions but I'd not been aware of doing it at such a deep level that I thought emotional hunger was physical hunger. Previously I've binged when feeling down/angry/anxious but been aware of what I was doing, just out of control.
I'd be very interested to hear of other experiences around eating not for hunger but other reasons.
As I was still extremely hungry I started to get myself some more food and then stopped to think. As i had eaten so much it seemed strange that I was still so hungry so I asked myself if it was really hunger for food or an emotional hunger and I realised I'd really woken up worried. When I acknowledged that to myself the hunger lessened and although I was worried - I have some very real worries right now - I felt better for identifying what was really going on for me.
Its strange. I'd heard loads of course about eating to cover emotions but I'd not been aware of doing it at such a deep level that I thought emotional hunger was physical hunger. Previously I've binged when feeling down/angry/anxious but been aware of what I was doing, just out of control.
I'd be very interested to hear of other experiences around eating not for hunger but other reasons.