How to combat emotional eating.

I'm an emotional eater. It's painfully obvious. The other night my ww leader was talking about emotional eating and she said, "some of you can't be let out of the house because you'll eat no matter what mood you're in!" It was scary to hear her say that because that's exactly how I am.

I eat when I'm happy.
I eat when I'm sad.
I eat when I'm mad.

There is really no emotion that has caused me not to eat. Planning our wedding just made things worse for me. I cannot believe that I didn't gain weight while being engaged!

The talk about emotional eating ran through my mind all day today. I woke up and felt good about the 1.5 loss from last night. I was happy with myself and I thought about going to starbucks to "celebrate," luckily my sanity stepped in and reminded me that a pumpkin spice latte isn't something I needed! I got a nonfat latte instead and saved myself some calories.

Then I went to the DMV after work to process my name change. After waiting over an hour, the clerk informed me that they could not change my name without more documents. (I checked the website and asked an employee what forms I needed but I was misled.) So I was irritated and annoyed. My first thought? FOOD. I immediately thought about eating! I had to talk myself out of the emotional eating again.

I know that this will be an endless battle for me. I've been overweight since high-school! (I'm 25 so that was awhile ago.) I just hope that I can make myself more aware of what triggers me to eat. (Besides being hungry! It's always okay to eat if I'm hungry!)

Do you deal with emotional eating? What helps you combat it?