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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why does this thread make it seem like most of you just drink liquids all day to distract yourself from eating food?  It's not emotional eating if you are hungry - it's just nourishing your body.  Surely some of you need some amount of food?  Very odd.

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This poster asked explicitly about emotional eating. I posted about matcha tea above. No milk. No sweetener. The ritual of tea distracts me from eating a bunch of random sh!t from my cabinets. I eat normal, healthy meals and am a normal, healthy weight. And this way I don't binge on junk I'm not actually hungry for, but I sure used to -- and it really sucked feeling out of control like that.[/quote]

+1  I drink tea, too, albeit mostly herbal so I’m not totally wired on caffeine.  I substitute tea for randomly snacking on cold pizza at 8:30am which I want to do to avoid a challenging work thing and/or because I’m feeling like a bad mom for some reason.  I will happily eat the same pizza at 11:30 without overanalyzing why I want it.  I don’t diet or count calories but I know perfectly well I don’t need a full meal between my hearty breakfast at 6:30am and my lunch at 11:30, so I mostly drink tea instead.  Still a little overweight from pregnancy since I don’t have time to exercise with with my toddlers around but not gaining anything. [/quote]

How do you calm the impulse to eat the pizza long enough to make the tea? I have difficulty controlling the urge to eat the pizza/candy/whatever long enough to make the tea. [/quote]

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