I'm currently beating my junk food addition (hooray!) And losing weight. But I feel a bit empty sometimes, like there's a hole in my life. Before I would use food as a treat, reward, a punctuation mark.
If I did well that day, I could have a takeaway. If I had a terrible day, I could have a takeaway. If it was the weekend, time to celebrate with a takeaway. Also snacks and ready meals - I wouldn't feel like I could progress to the next part of the day unless I had eaten, even if I wasn't hungry. Especially WFH, I had little structure to my day so used food to create those markers.
If I had a stressful day, I would gorge myself on whole bars of chocolate, 2 or 3 family sized bags of crisps, things from the bakery, oven chips - there was a huge emotional connection to food. It was my friend when I was lonely and my comfort when I was sad. It was also the thing I was always most excited for. I would go out with my friend but be more excited about what we would eat rather than what we would do. For birthdays, Christmas - it was all about the food rather than the quality time.
I don't really know how I'm managing to not indulge in these behaviours now, and I worry when I can no longer WFH and am exhausted from commuting, I will start using food as my crutch. Or when I'm more stressed again.
So I would love to find some replacements for these behaviours, but things that have been suggested to me - like having a bubble bath, painting my nails or knitting (why does everyone suggest knitting nowadays lol?) - do not do it for me at all. They would not be an adequate replacement.
What do you guys do instead? When you want to turn to food for a reason other than hunger, what do you do instead? TIA!
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