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I have found the following helpful link for emotional eating: http://m.helpguide.org/articles/diet-weight-loss/emotional-eating I appreciate the comment on the Gabriel method. I am fine with my diet, but when a strong emotion comes I wouldn't be able to stick to ANY diet, I would head straight for cookies and ice cream. The nightly visualization is a good idea and would probably help. How exactly do you do those?

I have found the following helpful link for emotional eating: http://m.helpguide.org/articles/diet-weight-loss/emotional-eating I appreciate the comment on the Paleo diet. I am fine with my diet, but when a strong emotion comes I wouldn't be able to stick to ANY diet, I would head straight for cookies and ice cream.

Hello all, I'm new around here. I am getting married in 3.5 months and my fiancée and I are both using the app Lose It! to track calories. It is working well, but about once a week my rebellious streak kicks in and I give in. This usually happens when I have a lot of job related stress. It feels like I'm an animal in a cage that is trying to break free. To me overeating junk and throwing caution to the wind is my mind's idea of how to be "free." Yes, I know that doesn't make logical sense but it is how things work in my mind. Two days ago I ate double my daily allotment for calories. I was triggered by accumulated stress at my job, and the straw that broke the camel's back was an unusually heavy traffic jam. This can also be triggered by loneliness. The problem is, once I fall off the wagon, I want to give up. It feels too difficult because it is almost impossible to control my cravings when I am stressed. During the rest of the time I do well and I successfully track my calories and I lose weight, but I am frequently discouraged by the times I lose control and I want to give up on everything and just eat ice cream and cookies. If you have any successful suggestions for overcoming this problem, I would really appreciate it.

I will also cross post this to the Weight Loss section

Hello all, I'm new around here. I am getting married in 3.5 months and my fiancée and I are both using the app Lose It! to track calories. It is working well, but about once a week my rebellious streak kicks in and I give in. This usually happens when I have a lot of job related stress. It feels like I'm an animal in a cage that is trying to break free. To me overeating junk and throwing caution to the wind is my mind's idea of how to be "free." Yes, I know that doesn't make logical sense but it is how things work in my mind. Two days ago I ate double my daily allotment for calories. I was triggered by accumulated stress at my job, and the straw that broke the camel's back was an unusually heavy traffic jam. The problem is, once I fall off the wagon, I want to give up. It feels too difficult because it is almost impossible to control my cravings when I am stressed. During the rest of the time I do well and I successfully track my calories and I lose weight, but I am frequently discouraged by the times I lose control and I want to give up on everything and just eat ice cream and cookies. If you have any successful suggestions for overcoming this problem, I would really appreciate it.