What are some of the things that you do to fight the urge to eat when you have a craving or you just want to eat out of emotion, such as boredom or stress or just cause....

Some of things I do is
1. Go on this or the WW site
2. Have a shower
3. Brush my teeth (generally this does not work, but I try anyway)
4. Chew Gum

I do not have alot and some new Ideas would be great....

I don't have much to add, but
1. Drink water.
2. Do some sit ups or push ups.
3. Drink water with a lemon, lime, or orange in it (the flavor helps keep me interested).
4. Exercise.
5. Take a bath.
6. Read a book.

HTH. I look forward to seeing the ideas that others have.

Tara

Get out of the house!! Even if it means going to Walgreens...I just get the **** out of there! Borders is always good, too, cause they're open late....

1. I go on this site
2. I also go on Pogo and play games, it's hard to snack when you have to click
3. go for a walk
4. go through my program materials
5. drink water
6. write in a journal
7. lately I pick up my old weigh-in records and look them over for motivation, sometimes I get mad at myself, but mostly it makes me committed to maintaining
8. do laundry or some other chore to get distracted, anything that gets you thinking about something else
9. I used to do cross-stitch and crochet, that might work for some people, anything that keeps your hands active

My craving monster is two-headed. There's the simple craving -- I've eaten enough and want to fall back into my fatal Snickers habit -- and then there's the Genuine Hunger (usually midafternoon or late at night) and broccoli ain't gonna cut it craving.

For the first, I can use willpower usually. It's the second that gets me. I'm trying to retrain the cravings -- NOT a Snickers bar. A luna bar (more protein, 3 points instead of 5), or grab an Activia yogurt (2 points) when I get home from work. This is still very much a work in progress.

When I lost 30 pounds (from a much lower start point) on WW about 20 years ago it was on the old exchange program, which I still miss. I remember one day wanting that Snickers bar, which I perceived as "hunger." And I remember sitting on the couch thinking, "You cannot have anything that doesn't fit into one of the exchanges. Are you really hungry, or do you just want a Snickers bar?" I didn't eat anything. I'm really really working to get back to that day.

Great thread, with lots of good ideas!

I do some that have already been mentioned, the biggie being to come here for reinforcement. A few others that work well for me are:

1) Lie down on my bed with my iPod, and listen to whatever kind of music I'm in the mood for. Usually, it's something soothing.

2) Call someone to chat. It takes my mind off food, and helps me focus on someone else.

3) Think about my DD's upcoming wedding in August. I want to be 40 lighter by then. I can do it if I stay OP.

Great Ideas!

1) grab a sugar free popsicle instead, 0 point and only 15 cals
2) get on the treadmill
3) call my DD

1. knit, I cant eat while I knit.
2. go for a walk with my daughter.
3. play fetch with the dog.
4. take my daughter to hop and stop- or the park when it is nice out.
5. brush my teeth
6. chew gum.
7. put on make up or straighten my hair.
8. go to the library and study. cant eat in there!

1. drink water
2. come here
3. blog which is part of coming here
4. call someone, that will keep me occupied for awhile because I can talk !
5. surf the net
6. haven't done this in awhile but I need to--read
7. browse one of my mags--Cooking Light, WW, Fitness, Self

ok, I just tracked, that helped, now I know I need to drink some more water and not eat anything else today

Making a cup of steaming hot tea helps me.

I like to play the piano when I have the eating itch. Can't do both at the same time

Thanks for the thread, there are ALOT of good ideas and some of them just may save me in the future...

I hope this won't change but on the fourth day of my restart, I stopped having cravings. I think it's cutting back on sugar. I drank 2 or 3 sodas a day, and had at least 2 snacks of the candy bar, cookies variety. I haven't been eating sugar; I don't want sugar. (I never craved potato chips or bread or steak or lettuce.) This afternoon, I was hungry -- I was entitled. I hadn't eaten in four hours. But it was different from a craving.

I hope this will keep up!

Try bleaching your teeth. I can't eat while doing it and the taste kills my appetite.