Yet another way that IE is not like a diet.....
On Monday I was starving; genuinely hungry and didn't seem to stop eating all day. It scared me a bit actually, I couldn't help thinking abut all the weight I'd be putting on. It's hard to trust your body sometimes. When I thought about it I realised I had been rushing around all day and it was freezing cold. Also, while I was eating constantly, it was only a few mouthfuls each time.
Yesterday, I didn't get very hungry at all. But I was tired and a little stressed so I ate out of mouth hunger quite a lot. But thats the wonderful thing about IE; if you have a little( or even a big) binge and use food to comfort yourself it doesn't really matter. You just make sure you binge on something you really want and wait until you feel hungry again. It's fine. You can't do any damage and it doesn't matter. If you want to binge it's fine; it's allowed- it's sometimes helpful to gently question yourself about why you might be using food though.
So I was at the 'gently questioning' stage when I had a flash of a memory. My weight ( eating) 'problems' started around the time my father left us, when I was 8 years old. I can remember the feeling I had when I realised he'd gone, it was a physical pain- much like a hunger pain, only higher up in my chest I think. My response to this pain was to treat it like hunger, and eat. Of course the eating didn't make the pain go away but it did dull it for a bit.
I'm guess what I'm trying to say is that, for me, I find it useful to think about why I'm wanting to eat. Quite a lot of the time, If I really think about it, I find I don't actually want to eat at all.
On a less serious not, I bought a box of Dunkin Doughnuts the other day. I selected a glazed one but only managed half before I realised I wasn't actually enjoying it. The other half went in the bin and the kids ate the rest. ( My children are not rubbish bins.....)