Mine would be not eating until I'm STARVING & then make poor choices. It's because I'm always so worried about making the wrong decisions that I avoid it. Stupid, I know.
I'm also bad for not being able to eat a portion of something sweet (ice cream, baked goods, etc.) & put it away. If it's in the house I eat it until it is ALL gone. My poor husband cannot have ice cream or cookies unless he hides it from me!
For me it's emotional eating. All emotions, both positive or negative (but mostly negative) seem to trigger a desire to stuff myself with whatever is on hand. Who knew, but it IS possible to binge on veggies... When they say to be successful with weight loss long-term, you have to fix the underlying reason why you eat, this one is definitely mine. Food has been my consolation and my reward for as long as I can remember. I'm working on finding healthy replacements!
I'm with Tammy. I have to eat throughout the day. If I don't, by the time I get home I am so hungry that it overpowers any kind of control I had. Then I reach for ANYTHING!
Monica
I see that back in June, I posted that my biggest problem was eating alone. Well...it still is! I stopped at Whole Foods on the way home from work yesterday and ended up eating an entire container of mini frosted cupcakes (12 of them ) in the car on my way home. If someone had been with me, I wouldn't have bought ANY junk food
If I haven't done something for over 10 weeks, then is my habit officially kicked? No, huh I didn't think so.
Well what has gotten me so overweight in the first place is terrible bingeing. Large amounts of food. Mindless eating, eating without thinking about the consequences. But like I said it's been over 10 weeks since I've done that. I hope to G-d that I never, ever, ever do anything like that again.
My biggest problem is stress eating, and 'batching' in my head, ie, can't have a gingersnap w/o some eggnog, can't have a sugar cookie w/o a cup of hot cocoa, can't have a cinnamon log cookie w/o some dark chocolate fudge. My current plan, to not have ANY of it then, works for now, but I know that won't work forever.
Mine is not having healthy, planned meals at home. It's too easy to go out and make bad choices when there's nothing obvious or easy to eat at home. Eating restaurant food becomes eating comfort food, then comes trouble.
Another problem that I have at times is "Rationalizing that it's OK just this once". That I feel entitled to it. This can definitely get out of hand for me. EX. 10 days ago was DH's B-day and I baked a cake. Thought that I totally deserved a slice of it. I ended up having 4 huge slices, licked the knife and sucked the icing off all 42 candles. What I did deserve was the 2 lbs. that I gained and have worked my butt off now to try to take off.
Mine always was fast food. All though I have pretty much whipped that. Now my biggest problem is my treat day. I allow myself one treat day a week but it more often than not goes further than a treat day should. Ideally I would like to stick to going no more than 600 calories over. However it ends up being in thousands over. Yes I still lose weight but I don't like the way it makes me feel and think.
I have so many, heh! I will pick the top 3 -- from worst, to second worst, to third worst.
1. Boredom eating at work. If it's a slow day at work, I'll munch. It's something I can do while at the computer, sort of a multi-tasked 'reward' for myself. Somehow, my boredom eating veers toward chocolate and sweets, even if healthy choices are around, because of...
2. The "I deserve something good-tasting!" feeling. Gosh, it's such a miserable day at work, I deserve to have someting good-tasting! Like, oh, a pound bag of M&Ms. Unfortunately for me, good tasting does not always equal good tasting. I mean, there are tons of foods, either healthy foods, better than a burger and fries at a fast food joint. But that leads to...
3. Ingrained habits! The "bad day at work, don't want to cook, need something fast!" mindset has traditionally driven me to fast food, for 'treats'. Breaking this habit is hard! I can see myself exhibiting it, and sometimes, I can stop and substitute. Sometimes I can't. Trying to replace the habit with a non-food reward has not been effective as of yet. I keep trying things and hoping, though!
Now my biggest problem is my treat day. I allow myself one treat day a week but it more often than not goes further than a treat day should. Ideally I would like to stick to going no more than 600 calories over. However it ends up being in thousands over. Yes I still lose weight but I don't like the way it makes me feel and think.
Only a man could get away with eating all those extra calories and still lose weight. It's just not fair!!! A whole treat DAY? I was thinking perhaps to add 1 treat a week, but a whole DAY? Women just can't do it. Oh well. So goes it. You keep on enjoying your treat day Howie and I'll keep on enjoying my.................veggies, yeah that's what I'll enjoy.
) in the car on my way home. If someone had been with me, I wouldn't have bought ANY junk food 
