Food in front of me. I realized the other day that I never sit at home craving something sweet or snacky (like chips), wanting to go buy some. I used to, all the time. Now, if it's not in front of me, it's just not on my mind. This is just fabulous :D Problem is, most every week I'm at my sister's house and lots of stuff is in front of me ;)

Being Tired
Parties where I didn't plan ahead
Any social circumstance that involves cake
Baking!

I almost think it would be easier to list what is NOT a trigger:halfempty , But here goes:
~ PMS (which sometimes lasts two to three weeks for me depending on PCOS cycle)
~ letting myself get over hungry
~ financial stress/panic
~ staying up late
~ negative stress ( not the I am busy trying to solve a solvable problem kind of positive stress, the I am overwhelmed because I can't see an end to it kind of stress)
~ my mother ( she does not even have to be present it can be a phone call)
~ loneliness
~ dirty dishes / messy kitchen (i know it sounds psychotic, but if my kitchen is not clean I will opt for food that I do not prepare and then i eat too much of a bad thing)

There maybe more things but it mostly boils down to stress of one kind or another. (I am moving and today while sorting through books I found a diary that I started the first year I gained weight and a book on compulsive eating that was probably recommended to me by a therapist the following year 1990/1991; weird to read your own thoughts from long ago and realize that you have known about and acknowledged a problem for nearly two decades without ever putting solid effort into dealing with it.) And yes that did trigger a nilla wafer and chai binge.

1. Stress... when a whole bunch of things happen at once.
2. Letting myself get too hungry.
3. Wanting to celebrate every good thing that happens with food.

Mainly emotion, I guess.

1. The presence of certain foods in my house
2. My almost-underweight boyfriend eating whatever crap he wants (he doesn't eat excessively, but he just stops when he's full, has NO issues, etc etc)
3. Tiredness
4. Worrying about my epilepsy (not completely controlled atm)
5. Feeling like people hate me
6. Knowing I'm a loser
7. Holidays
8. Long uni classes
9. Cold-type illnesses
10. Being at other peoples' houses

Two things mainly...

* Hormones - twice a month!

* Being sick.

These are the times that I seem to get 'uncrontrollable' cravings. Well, maybe some people would say that all cravings are controllable, but I find these times VERY hard to resist food. Other times, such as stress, tired and other things people have mentioned, I seem to be able to talk myself out of eating 'extras'.

my triggers

My sister (stress o matic)
and living with parents whom don't care about weight gain unhealthy snacks and stuff EVERYWHERE

I'm still new to all this and trying to figure them all out but those are my big ones my entires family is big and I have been the smallest my whole life none of them have dieted or worked on losing the weight I'm kind of mental about it because I don't want to keep that future image in my head .... DARE to BE DIFFERENT


Ze --- wow just went through reading your website very inspiring to stick to it more

1. Panic
2. Boredom
3. Feeling crap.
4. If I haven't snacked.

Oh boy, did that one hit home! Especially for fast foods - I can drive right past all kinds of *those* places and think they don't even smell good any more but let a commercial come on........ :drool: That's why I make sure that once I sit down to watch TV I've already removed makeup and changed into grungies. All I have to do is think of how much trouble it would be to make myself presentable and the mood passes :lol:

triggers
 

Believe it or not, my biggest trigger is just good, old-fashioned, low-calorie, unbuttered popcorn--which I love! For some reason, once I sit with that "hand to mouth" action for 20 minutes, all I want to do is eat!

Holidays
Restaurants
Boredom
Depression
Celebration
Social gatherings
Letting myself get super hungry
Waking up in the middle of the night (I will eat myself out of house and home at 2 AM!)
TV commercials
Working near Dairy Queen
Smelling other people's fast food
Movie theaters
Delicious food on discount
Really expensive food (I have this urge to eat every last crumb or bite or lick to make sure I got my money's worth!)

Oh, add sitting at a desk all day and vacations to that list :lol:

OMG, I realized earlier this year that sitting and working at my desk is a TERRIBLE trigger for me!

On mornings when I'll be working at my desk I end up eating a smaller breakfast, so I can have a nicer mid-morning snack. On days when I'm on the go, I don't need the snack so much.

I dunno bout the rest of you, but I feel that keeping this weight off is a lot about tricking myself into either thinking I'm not hungry or distracting myself from food!

boredom - big time.
and having extra money laying around which will naturally dedicate itself to a lot of fast foods.