Mine pretty much all certer around my children! LOL

If I wait to long to eat (I usually eat every few hours), b/c the kids need me and life is life, I'll start to get crabby. It quickly escalates to full-on psycho and feelings of starvation and madness rolled into one lovely me... Let's just say that hubby now insists on me eating FIRST and keeping a protein bar in the my purse...scary.

I'm going to echo you from another thread, Lin. I could have written this exactly.

What are your trigger circumstances?

Pretty much being awake does it for me.

In all seriousness I think my number one trigger is boredom. If I do not constantly have something enjoyable and interesting to do I turn to food in a heart beat. Maybe some day I will be able to be still doing absolutely nothing and enjoy it. I am not there yet nor do I know if I ever will be.

Larry,

Definitely failing at a recipe or it not tasting good.
Also:
Tons of junk food in the house
I think having a good weigh in triggers me to think I'm on the right track and I over eat

Boredom, loneliness, and the TV.

If I'm watching a show that is actually interesting or that I've planned to watch, it doesn't trigger me to eat... but if I just have the TV on, and am rather bored... well then I'll go looking for something to eat while watching. Then I'm being lazy, sedentary and stuffing my face.

Unfortunately I succumbed to that situation just yesterday. *sigh* Got to plan better for this week.

What are your trigger circumstances?

Pretty much being awake does it for me.

In all seriousness I think my number one trigger is boredom. If I do not constantly have something enjoyable and interesting to do I turn to food in a heart beat. Maybe some day I will be able to be still doing absolutely nothing and enjoy it. I am not there yet nor do I know if I ever will be.

Larry,

I am realizing that one trigger is planning my food out too much. All I do is anticipate the next meal and watch the clock to eat again. Sometimes I end up eating both "planned" meals in one sitting. However, if I wait until mealtime to decide what I am having, I can usually make a good choice. And I am not obsessing about for hours and hours in advance.

Eating too fast - I will inhale and feel unsatisfied. Eating slowly helps.

Too much candy/sugar/dessert. This especially happens if I eat this stuff when I am hungry in place of a meal. I end up binging later in the day.

Boredom

Work - too much junk lying around and I am bored even when busy at my job.

Certain kinds of stress and depression make me gorge, while others make me lose my appetite.

Loneliness

Overly restricting calories and the foods I'll eat for too long a period.

The word DIET! This is perhaps the worst one because of the connotation of deprivation.

1) Thoughtlessness around my food
2) Denying cravings (it just builds up and then I eat it ALL)
3) Boredom
4) Stress (I clench my teeth and eating unclenches it... I need to buy some gum!)
5) Procrastinating
6) Boredom
7) Boredom
8) Boredom
9) Boredom
10) If I eat too many sugar infested products, including alcohol, I start that vicious cycle

Me, too!!! Oh, I have struggled so many times to SLOW DOWN, but I can't seem to do that and still enjoy my food. I don't know if anyone will understand this, but when when I eat small bites and eat them slowly, I feel as if I cannot really taste the food. That goes contrary to what everyone suggests about slowing down to "enjoy" and "savor" food. With me, it's the opposite. I swear, sometimes I think that my taste buds are weak or something and that I need a big mouthful of food to really taste it well. It's embarrassing to eat so fast, especially for a woman!

I completely understand with the fast eating. This is totally me. My mom claims she stopped breastfeeding me at 4 months because I didn't have the patience for it and would rather have my milk poured down my throat in my bottle with a large flow.

I too don't really enjoy small mouthfuls of food. What I've found helps is drinking lots of water whilst I eat. I know there are some negative messages about whether or not one should drink whilst eating (many of which I find scientifically unsound), but I have to. I try to stop inhaling my food a couple of times during the meal and try to drink 1 full 11-oz (330ml) glass of water each time. This is also a good opportunity to make small talk if you're not eating alone. Having to drink that much water at once not only slows me down and gives my dinner companions time to catch up a little to my speedy munching, it also fills me up, so that by the time I'm done, I'm quite full and the last thing on my mind is more food. If I'm not full enough after dinner, I down another glass of water. Now that I think of it, a lot of my water consumption is during meals.

Thanks for the tip! I'll try it.