Stress and pain. I've always used food to make me feel better and when I'm really stressed or my back is out, I hear chocolate calling my name.
Also, boredom. When I'm bored, I munch and munch...usually on chips.

Kat, that's me! Chocolate and chips! I gave up the chips. I've chips twice in five and half months. I can't eat just one. But the chocolate...I still have that. I like to eat dark chocolate chips. I can give myself a serving and incorporate them into my daily calories.

I used to be a bad boredom eater, especially when I was studying for school. Snacks and homework or studying simply went hand in hand. TV's another one. Now I treat myself to popcorn only when I'm watching TV, or sometimes a portioned serving of walnuts and chocolate chips.

Ugh, yes, it's so easy to sit in front of the tv and eat a half a bag of chips! I don't trust myself with chocolate in the house...too tempting for me right now. I'm ashamed to say that I've eaten whole bags of chocolate in a days time. My major weakness.

Haha! Funny; me too. Trail mix? So healthy, but in huge portions like I can gobble up in a second? ...not so healthy. I suppose I just justify it as, "well, at least I'm not eating potato chips!"

And dried fruit of anykind. I can't bring this stuff into my house. I'll eat it without remorse. Now, on my "high calorie days"? This is my go-to food. Anytime else I need to stay away from it.

Weekends, holidays and boredom.
I need to keep myself busy (and out of house) to stay away from the fridge.
Sounds so easy!

Plan, plan and than plan some more. Treat those weekends like any other day of the week. Know IN ADVANCE what you will be eating and when and what activities you will be doing. Boredom? - if hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution, if hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution, if hunger isn't the problem, food isn't the solution - say it over and over again until it gets through. Self talk is very important to me. And if you're bored,have some go to things to go to - computer, reading, writing, knitting, sewing, talking, cleaning, running in circles, whatever you've got to do. Plan it out. Have a strategy for it. Think it through so that you'll know what to do when it strikes.

Okay, so we've all identified what does us in - and that is huge. Now we've got to find some strategies to overcome those challenges. And make no mistake about it, there is a solution, a way around each and every obstacle thrown our way. Plan ahead for it, have strategies for it and even have a plan in place for when it just pops up unexpectedly.

What does me in? Allowing myself to go off-plan for a "special event" then not managing to find my way back on-plan. Lesson for me? There are no events that are special enough for me to go off plan!

Being out of my zip code kills me.
I'm fine when I'm here at school, 90% of the time. I can plan, bring my own lunches to places, wait until I get home, find a known healthy option.

Send me on a trip, give me a week back at my parent's house...and I'm off-plan big time. However, I am working really hard on changing this, since I know I'm spending the summer away. three months is too long to be off-plan.

great q! definitely stress for me, and fatigue. I feel like eating/food is a treat for having to deal with life stuff (and a comfort).

I try to deal with it by relying on patterns I get going with eating and exercise, and comforting myself in other ways. the gym is actually a good stress reliever for me (thank buddha).

starting to slip eating wise (usually because of eating out more) can lead to long periods of non-loss for me. I have to keep check on the scale, otherwise I would end up zoning out and really losing track. that said, I totally get what you mean by having a scale obsession being an obstacle as well.