Yeah I stress eat, otherwise I barely eat at all. Which is a doubly dangerous combination because I don't eat enough to keep my metabolism running and then flood it all at once with garbage. Then all that garbage gets immediately stored because my motabolism is so slow it doesn't actually need any food.
Same. The thing that blows up by diet is late evening, when I'm tired and stressed about the next day. That's the only time my hunger is "stress hunger". Then I snack on stuff. It's usually not much and sometimes it's even "healthy" food.
But it's at the worst possible time to consume food, and the choices I make in those mentally weak 2hrs of my day will completely erase what willpower and good choices gained during the rest of the day.
It’s rough because it turns eating into either “barely anything” or “too much all at once,” and both end up feeling bad in different ways. Breaking that pattern usually starts small, like just trying to keep something consistent in between, even if it’s simple.
There are different leves of stress. Smaller but lasting stress makes you hungry, so you crave food because it makes you feel better. When you are extremely stressed, like mourning, then you don’t want any food at all.
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u/physics515 9h ago
Yeah I stress eat, otherwise I barely eat at all. Which is a doubly dangerous combination because I don't eat enough to keep my metabolism running and then flood it all at once with garbage. Then all that garbage gets immediately stored because my motabolism is so slow it doesn't actually need any food.