For as long as I can remember, I've struggled with emotional eating. It started when I was an angsty teenager who was bullied incessantly at school, but it continued well into my adult years. I've experienced many mornings when I wake up feeling immensely guilty for all the binge-eating I did the night before. This is an extremely common battle among many women across the country, and you'll find a variety of different advice online that is supposed to help you stop binging.
We're encouraged to
journal how we feel, identify our triggers, and answer cravings when they arise
rather than ignore them altogether. In many cases, you'll hear that moderation
is the name of the game. My battle against binge-eating had nothing to do with
any of that advice, though. The only thing that stopped me from emotional eating was logging every single
thing I ate into my phone and putting myself on a strict diet.
