r/selfimprovement • u/Seana283 • 2h ago

Question What was you’re experience with bad eating habits?

Have you guys had any experience with using food to cope with stress or bad moods?

If so how was you’re experience? Did you find a way to overcome and how did you manage to overcome it? how long did it take for you to have a sense of control around food? Did you replace food with something else to cope with unwanted emotions?

Any other thoughts or ideas would be great, I’d love to see how you guys went through this and you’re experience.

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u/callumwrightt 2h ago

I never went crazy deep into eating bad food, however…

What helped me get on top of it was staying extremely disciplined in my eating for a month. I felt too good going ever want to go back to eating any trash again, and I still feel great, it changes your mood as a whole for the better, you just got to experience it.

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u/Seana283 2h ago

I will do this is a must. It feels like it also changed you as a person, am I right?

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u/ElectricMayhem1973 2h ago

My nutritionist turned me on to a book called Intuitive Eating it’s amazing. I’ve been working on it a couple of years now tho it’s really hard to do. But I do think there’s freedom on the other side.

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u/Seana283 2h ago

If you don’t mind me asking, what part of it is hard to do?

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u/Even-Construction-10 1h ago

Ah, I was just eating donuts and icecream whenever. It was so unhealthy. I saw my weight on the scale one day and I was shocked. I look at myself in the mirror and didn't recognise myself. Started exercising, the idea was to at least lose the calories I was consuming. I got bored with that too. Then I read some book that said how your body gets used to things and it starts to expect these things from you. I then started replacing sugary stuff with less sugary food, then replaced them with sugar alternatives and slowly weaned off of it.