Comments on: Emotional Eating http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/ Dr. Phil- Start A Change Reaction Sun, 19 May 2013 02:33:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Emotional Eating http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-126520 Emotional Eating Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:18:08 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-126520 Emotional eating is a relatively common problem for both men and women. If you eat in response to your feelings, especially when you are not hungry, you are an emotional eater. Emotional eating means your emotions not your body dictate when and how much you eat. Emotional eating is a relatively common problem for both men and women. If you eat in response to your feelings, especially when you are not hungry, you are an emotional eater. Emotional eating means your emotions not your body dictate when and how much you eat.

]]> By: Laura http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-110196 Laura Mon, 07 May 2012 07:55:38 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-110196 Dr. Lawlis, I am such an emotional eater I have been all my life. I started as a very young child who ran to food after my step father killed himself in front of my poor mother, and then she was like I don't even know what to call her except, "not all the way mentally home for quite a few years," she was either not talking or just yelling and crying 24/7" whatever you call a person like that. "Thank God, she is way better today, she is a very strong women, but she too is an emotional eater. When this all happened I was only 6 and my baby brother was just 8 months old. I kind of took on my mother's role and had to grow up very fast. Then I suffered a lot of sexual abuse from some very sick people who took advantage of the situation we were in. Since I was hurting and young I think the only thing I could do was turn to food. And now that I am older it's the first thing I do, I run to the food! I HATE it, but I do it over and over again. I even laugh about it, but it's not funny at all. I do so good for a while, but then something happens and I am right back eating to stuff down the stress or pain that I'm going through. I just lost over 20lbs I was doing so good, I've even been walking 5K's to help charity and myself. I've done 4 so far this year and have been walking at least an hour daily. I thought I was really winning the battle this time, but a problem hits and I am right back at it again. I am going through a MAJOR problem, my 19 year old daughter has been put in a mental hospital, because she is depressed. She was going to a doctor and going to group therapy to help and she was starting to get better, she finally felt good enough to open up to them about how she was very depressed before and she had even wanted to kill herself. So they told her to sign herself in the hospital or they would put her in. Even though, she kept telling them, I DO NOT feel that way now! It was days ago not today. They wouldn't listen and now she is in one of the worse places, it's the only place New Orleans has for all mental patience since Katrina. You would think they would have a separation from depressed, delusional, coming off drugs and all the other things, but they don't. I am a nervous wreck, I am so scared she is going to get hurt. They stole 3 of her shirts and her little $4 vending money out of her room when she was in one of the so called sessions they have. My daughter called them, freak out hour, because all that keeps happening. She said, the very sick people that don't want to be there or don't even know where they are start screaming or throwing things. She just tries to hold her breath and hope to God they don't notice her, some of them think certain people are bad, evil, devils or whatever they see in their mind. So, I am not really upset about her things being stolen, "she on the other hand is/was" I am upset, because of what happens in the meetings and that they did nothing about her things missing. They said we didn't see it and act like it was nothing. I suggested they look at the video tape that is suppose to be taking them? One of the workers said, there isn't any tape in those! I feel if someone can come in her room and steal from her and no one see's it what would stop a person from coming in and either hitting her or sexually hurting her? So with all this stress I've eating and eating. I already ate a huge bag of peanut butter pretzel,the WHOLE BAG! It's a bag from Sam's so it's BIG! As I write this I want to go comb the house for chocolate. I know I am going to eat something since I am feeling, scared, upset, mad and helplessness over my daughter. One part of me is like you have the right to eat the whole house right now, so go for it! My thinking is like, your daughter is crying for you to take her home and you can't. You want to break her out but you won't! I thought about just breaking her out, but she did like the group before all this happened and I don't want to mess that up for her. Then on the other hand, I know she will never open up to them if they didn't listen to her the first time and the only thing they did when she opened up was through her in jail. It really is like jail, I promise you I've been going daily to visit the 1 hour we get and the only thing different is I get to hug her and I can sit next to her, oh and we don't have a piece of glass between us. I am sorry I keep going I could go on and on and on, I am so stressed out. Dr Lawlis, I love when your on Dr. Phil's show and I think your such an intelligent doctor who cares and really gets people. I can tell you LOVE what you do, it really shows on your face and the way you speak. I will look for your book, The Brain Power Cookbook, I think it sounds like it could really help my daughter and myself. We need all the help we can get so I better use it daily. ;) Thank you for caring and sharing your wisdom with us. Dr. Lawlis,
I am such an emotional eater I have been all my life. I started as a very young child who ran to food after my step father killed himself in front of my poor mother, and then she was like I don’t even know what to call her except, “not all the way mentally home for quite a few years,” she was either not talking or just yelling and crying 24/7″ whatever you call a person like that. “Thank God, she is way better today, she is a very strong women, but she too is an emotional eater.

When this all happened I was only 6 and my baby brother was just 8 months old. I kind of took on my mother’s role and had to grow up very fast. Then I suffered a lot of sexual abuse from some very sick people who took advantage of the situation we were in. Since I was hurting and young I think the only thing I could do was turn to food. And now that I am older it’s the first thing I do, I run to the food! I HATE it, but I do it over and over again. I even laugh about it, but it’s not funny at all.

I do so good for a while, but then something happens and I am right back eating to stuff down the stress or pain that I’m going through. I just lost over 20lbs I was doing so good, I’ve even been walking 5K’s to help charity and myself. I’ve done 4 so far this year and have been walking at least an hour daily. I thought I was really winning the battle this time, but a problem hits and I am right back at it again.

I am going through a MAJOR problem, my 19 year old daughter has been put in a mental hospital, because she is depressed. She was going to a doctor and going to group therapy to help and she was starting to get better, she finally felt good enough to open up to them about how she was very depressed before and she had even wanted to kill herself. So they told her to sign herself in the hospital or they would put her in. Even though, she kept telling them, I DO NOT feel that way now! It was days ago not today. They wouldn’t listen and now she is in one of the worse places, it’s the only place New Orleans has for all mental patience since Katrina. You would think they would have a separation from depressed, delusional, coming off drugs and all the other things, but they don’t.

I am a nervous wreck, I am so scared she is going to get hurt. They stole 3 of her shirts and her little $4 vending money out of her room when she was in one of the so called sessions they have. My daughter called them, freak out hour, because all that keeps happening. She said, the very sick people that don’t want to be there or don’t even know where they are start screaming or throwing things. She just tries to hold her breath and hope to God they don’t notice her, some of them think certain people are bad, evil, devils or whatever they see in their mind. So, I am not really upset about her things being stolen, “she on the other hand is/was” I am upset, because of what happens in the meetings and that they did nothing about her things missing. They said we didn’t see it and act like it was nothing. I suggested they look at the video tape that is suppose to be taking them? One of the workers said, there isn’t any tape in those! I feel if someone can come in her room and steal from her and no one see’s it what would stop a person from coming in and either hitting her or sexually hurting her? So with all this stress I’ve eating and eating. I already ate a huge bag of peanut butter pretzel,the WHOLE BAG! It’s a bag from Sam’s so it’s BIG! As I write this I want to go comb the house for chocolate. I know I am going to eat something since I am feeling, scared, upset, mad and helplessness over my daughter. One part of me is like you have the right to eat the whole house right now, so go for it! My thinking is like, your daughter is crying for you to take her home and you can’t. You want to break her out but you won’t! I thought about just breaking her out, but she did like the group before all this happened and I don’t want to mess that up for her. Then on the other hand, I know she will never open up to them if they didn’t listen to her the first time and the only thing they did when she opened up was through her in jail. It really is like jail, I promise you I’ve been going daily to visit the 1 hour we get and the only thing different is I get to hug her and I can sit next to her, oh and we don’t have a piece of glass between us. I am sorry I keep going I could go on and on and on, I am so stressed out.

Dr Lawlis, I love when your on Dr. Phil’s show and I think your such an intelligent doctor who cares and really gets people. I can tell you LOVE what you do, it really shows on your face and the way you speak. I will look for your book, The Brain Power Cookbook, I think it sounds like it could really help my daughter and myself. We need all the help we can get so I better use it daily. ;)

Thank you for caring and sharing your wisdom with us.

]]> By: Katy http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-25304 Katy Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:10:29 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-25304 I'm very emotional! And usually when I got problems I just started to eat a lot more and also started to eat things I shouldn't. Immediately I gained some weight. I found out one way. Each time I feel bad or stressed with something I do exercise or just do an 1 hour walk. I still eat a lot but I also spend a lot of calories... I don't think I'm stronger in terms of avoiding or solving stressful situations, but at least I don't gain weight. :) I’m very emotional! And usually when I got problems I just started to eat a lot more and also started to eat things I shouldn’t. Immediately I gained some weight. I found out one way. Each time I feel bad or stressed with something I do exercise or just do an 1 hour walk. I still eat a lot but I also spend a lot of calories… I don’t think I’m stronger in terms of avoiding or solving stressful situations, but at least I don’t gain weight. :)

]]> By: MaryLee http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-20455 MaryLee Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:04:35 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-20455 I overeat a LOT and recently faced the fact that I must be bulimic, but that's just a side problem of many others. I throw up at least 4 to 5 times a day, but I must be soaking up some food, becaus I'm overweight, and really don;t care what I eat anymore, since it's just going to come back up anyway. Forgive me for going off-topic, but I'm been writing a blog on Dr. Phil's website for a couple of months, but no one is reading it, and I don't know how to get help, even though I've mentions this to my doctors. I've been looking for years on the internet to find a name to what I have, and it took nearly forever to enter the right search tersm, but I found it - Rigid Akenetic Movement Disorder, which started a few months after a bad concussion I had in 1991. I also have clinical depression, and it has gotten worse after my fall. I'm seeing my psychiatrist next month (see him every 3 months), my doctor next week, who won't give me the estrogen that I *know* I need now, at age 57, and my dentist, where I got the awfullest-looking dentures you've ever seen that I refuse to wear. I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone, and no one is alive or hear me or believe me, but me. And I don't like me. Thanks for reading this, if anyone has. ~ML I overeat a LOT and recently faced the fact that I must be bulimic, but that’s just a side problem of many others. I throw up at least 4 to 5 times a day, but I must be soaking up some food, becaus I’m overweight, and really don;t care what I eat anymore, since it’s just going to come back up anyway.
Forgive me for going off-topic, but I’m been writing a blog on Dr. Phil’s website for a couple of months, but no one is reading it, and I don’t know how to get help, even though I’ve mentions this to my doctors. I’ve been looking for years on the internet to find a name to what I have, and it took nearly forever to enter the right search tersm, but I found it – Rigid Akenetic Movement Disorder, which started a few months after a bad concussion I had in 1991. I also have clinical depression, and it has gotten worse after my fall. I’m seeing my psychiatrist next month (see him every 3 months), my doctor next week, who won’t give me the estrogen that I *know* I need now, at age 57, and my dentist, where I got the awfullest-looking dentures you’ve ever seen that I refuse to wear.
I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone, and no one is alive or hear me or believe me, but me. And I don’t like me. Thanks for reading this, if anyone has. ~ML

]]> By: Anna http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-8708 Anna Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:42:42 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-8708 A Swedish woman has just written a book about ADHD, ADD felt on the inside, and how it is to get diagnosed as an adult. I prefer to call me impulsive, is the book's title. The book is written by Carina icon Nilsson from Sweden A Swedish woman has just written a book about ADHD, ADD felt on the inside, and how it is to get diagnosed as an adult. I prefer to call me impulsive, is the book’s title. The book is written by Carina icon Nilsson from Sweden

]]> By: Adele SA http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-8307 Adele SA Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:07:01 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-8307 Dr Phil, I have been over weight my entire life and remember my mom putting me on first diet when I was only 6 years old. My mom took me to a dietitian when I was a bit older and I remember being utterly devastated when the school nurse came to do health checks and weighed us and I weighed a good 40 pounds more than any of my peers (Gr 7). I was not severely overweight but I was tall and 'big'. A few years ago I eventually forced my doctor to do a couple of tests and found that I was insulin resistant. I am not sure if I had been for most of my life or if it just developed over a period of time. I never thought of myself as an emotional eater and I did not eat very much either. About a year ago I went through a bad patch in my marriage and I separated from my husband for a couple of months. During this time I sought counselling and only then did the puzzle pieces start to fall into place. I had been abused by my stepfather since I was about 6 or 7 and this lasted to the age of 12 when I finally had the courage to say 'NO!' I did not tell my mother until years later when I was 16 and then I did not get the response I 'needed'. During my therapy sessions we touched on the possible connection between the abuse, having recurring stomach ailments and missing school because of it and also living in poverty for most of my life. My therapist raised the point of whether my physical weight (the fat) is my body's way of actually holding on to things. I hope the way I have put it makes sense. I unfortunately had to end my sessions due to financial restraints but I have all these questions and feel as if the can has been opened and now I am left with these open wounds. I am now noticing that when I am emotional that I am craving for food and sometimes I do give in. I am aware when I do start eating and I try to reason with myself but there is this void which needs to be filled. I do not binge at all but just have crave for 'bad' foods. I am back with my husband and he has always been very supportive regarding my history of abuse etc, but he has difficulty in understanding and does not always now how to handle me when I do have an emotional period. I would really appreciate any advise, as I can not continue this way. I have a little girl of 3 years old and want to be good role model for her and I need to before it is too late. Dr Phil, I have been over weight my entire life and remember my mom putting me on first diet when I was only 6 years old. My mom took me to a dietitian when I was a bit older and I remember being utterly devastated when the school nurse came to do health checks and weighed us and I weighed a good 40 pounds more than any of my peers (Gr 7). I was not severely overweight but I was tall and ‘big’. A few years ago I eventually forced my doctor to do a couple of tests and found that I was insulin resistant. I am not sure if I had been for most of my life or if it just developed over a period of time.
I never thought of myself as an emotional eater and I did not eat very much either. About a year ago I went through a bad patch in my marriage and I separated from my husband for a couple of months. During this time I sought counselling and only then did the puzzle pieces start to fall into place.
I had been abused by my stepfather since I was about 6 or 7 and this lasted to the age of 12 when I finally had the courage to say ‘NO!’ I did not tell my mother until years later when I was 16 and then I did not get the response I ‘needed’.
During my therapy sessions we touched on the possible connection between the abuse, having recurring stomach ailments and missing school because of it and also living in poverty for most of my life. My therapist raised the point of whether my physical weight (the fat) is my body’s way of actually holding on to things. I hope the way I have put it makes sense. I unfortunately had to end my sessions due to financial restraints but I have all these questions and feel as if the can has been opened and now I am left with these open wounds.
I am now noticing that when I am emotional that I am craving for food and sometimes I do give in. I am aware when I do start eating and I try to reason with myself but there is this void which needs to be filled. I do not binge at all but just have crave for ‘bad’ foods. I am back with my husband and he has always been very supportive regarding my history of abuse etc, but he has difficulty in understanding and does not always now how to handle me when I do have an emotional period.
I would really appreciate any advise, as I can not continue this way. I have a little girl of 3 years old and want to be good role model for her and I need to before it is too late.

]]> By: Jennifer V http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-7838 Jennifer V Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:35:19 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-7838 My comment is not about emotional eating. I have a condition called trigeminal neuralgia and have had two craniotomies in the past 7 years in an effort to relieve the pain and nothing seems to be helping. I recently weaned myself off of methadone and a number of other meds that were causing more harm than good and it was so difficult, I now have a good understanding of withdrawal and the difficulty and have a new understanding for what addicts go through. After your show about addiction to prescription medications I realized and new before the show that it was me! My son is getting deployed, special forces USMC, as I am proud of him I am scared for him. I am afraid all of these stressors and the inability to control this horrible pain I will cave again. How do I stay strong? How do I move forward from this. I am an RN with a BSN and wish to return to work but sometimes go for days without sleeping secondary to the pain and stress. I need help just to keep it together. Dr. Lawless I saw that you have a specialty in neurological diseases, have you got any ideas for my situation? I really hope you do I am an my wits end and scared that my addiction will take over my life again and I don't want that! Please give me any advice you can think of. Thank you so much in advance. Jennifer My comment is not about emotional eating. I have a condition called trigeminal neuralgia and have had two craniotomies in the past 7 years in an effort to relieve the pain and nothing seems to be helping. I recently weaned myself off of methadone and a number of other meds that were causing more harm than good and it was so difficult, I now have a good understanding of withdrawal and the difficulty and have a new understanding for what addicts go through. After your show about addiction to prescription medications I realized and new before the show that it was me! My son is getting deployed, special forces USMC, as I am proud of him I am scared for him. I am afraid all of these stressors and the inability to control this horrible pain I will cave again. How do I stay strong? How do I move forward from this. I am an RN with a BSN and wish to return to work but sometimes go for days without sleeping secondary to the pain and stress. I need help just to keep it together. Dr. Lawless I saw that you have a specialty in neurological diseases, have you got any ideas for my situation? I really hope you do I am an my wits end and scared that my addiction will take over my life again and I don’t want that! Please give me any advice you can think of. Thank you so much in advance. Jennifer

]]> By: BrittA. http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-7024 BrittA. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:13:51 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-7024 Hi Dr. Phil. I'm from Norway and I watch your show every time i get a chance. You write about emotional eating and I can see myself eat when I read all of this. Salty Chips an Oreo coockies. I guess I'm angry since I eat crunchy snacks, but I also eat an extrem amont of chocklate!! My weight has been very high and extremly low ever since I was aprox. 12/13 years old. There's been negative environment in my mom and dads house since I was born, maybe even before i was born. She drinks ALOT, and he is depressed. Things have happend trough the years and made everything worse. Everytime I feel something, happy sad angry, what ever the feeling, I eat!! I've been to a psychologist(under education) at age 16-17, and I belive that I fooled her. After a year she said I was healthy, discharged me and that was that. I didn't feel any better, I was still hurting myself and she discharged me. I gave up and returned to my own self destructive patterns and acted like everything was fine, because I didn't want to hurt my dad or his feelings. I'm now 24 years old, stoped hurting myself for a while, but then I started to eat again. Now I'm in this vicious circle and I'm having bad thoughts. It's developed to the level of self-destructive pattern again. I'm scared of myself and what I'm thinking when I eat!! I don't have any control of myself anymore or my thoughts. I've given up on psychologists and doctors, those I've been to havent helped me yet. Maybe I've just haven't met the right doctor. I hear what you say in your show, I read it on your websites, but I don't have the courage to do that!! I don't now how to do it myself, I can give advice to every person I know, but I can't follow them myself. How do people get out of their eating habits??? I would like to learn somethings from other people!! Thank you for your honest answers and thinking!! You made me think twice about what I am doing to myself and the people around me.! But I don't know how to change me. maybe you can help...? Hi Dr. Phil. I’m from Norway and I watch your show every time i get a chance. You write about emotional eating and I can see myself eat when I read all of this. Salty Chips an Oreo coockies. I guess I’m angry since I eat crunchy snacks, but I also eat an extrem amont of chocklate!! My weight has been very high and extremly low ever since I was aprox. 12/13 years old. There’s been negative environment in my mom and dads house since I was born, maybe even before i was born. She drinks ALOT, and he is depressed. Things have happend trough the years and made everything worse.
Everytime I feel something, happy sad angry, what ever the feeling, I eat!! I’ve been to a psychologist(under education) at age 16-17, and I belive that I fooled her. After a year she said I was healthy, discharged me and that was that. I didn’t feel any better, I was still hurting myself and she discharged me. I gave up and returned to my own self destructive patterns and acted like everything was fine, because I didn’t want to hurt my dad or his feelings. I’m now 24 years old, stoped hurting myself for a while, but then I started to eat again. Now I’m in this vicious circle and I’m having bad thoughts. It’s developed to the level of self-destructive pattern again. I’m scared of myself and what I’m thinking when I eat!! I don’t have any control of myself anymore or my thoughts. I’ve given up on psychologists and doctors, those I’ve been to havent helped me yet. Maybe I’ve just haven’t met the right doctor. I hear what you say in your show, I read it on your websites, but I don’t have the courage to do that!! I don’t now how to do it myself, I can give advice to every person I know, but I can’t follow them myself.

How do people get out of their eating habits??? I would like to learn somethings from other people!!

Thank you for your honest answers and thinking!! You made me think twice about what I am doing to myself and the people around me.!

But I don’t know how to change me. maybe you can help…?

]]> By: Ms. Stephenson http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-6792 Ms. Stephenson Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:24:40 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-6792 Dr. Phil, I came up with an idea today. What do ya think? Mac N Cheese, Traditional Thanksgiving at maternal Grandmother's, Warm Ida B Peanut Butter Cookies like grandmother use to make Chicken CatchaStory like mom made (phonetically joking as can't remember how to spell Chicken CatchAstory) RE: Tour De The Doctors & Tour De Dr Phil Show Team SEAangels14 Heard of Battle of the Stars? Battle of the Bulge Recumbent Exercise Bike Tour De @TheDoctors & Tour De @DrPhil Show Team. C who does best. about 5 hours ago from web SEAangels14 @DrPhil @TheDoctors Join me in Recumbent Exercise Bike Tour De @TheDoctors & Tour De @DrPhil Show Team COMMITTING to exercise during M-F. :) about 5 hours ago from web Dr. Phil, I came up with an idea today. What do ya think?

Mac N Cheese, Traditional Thanksgiving at maternal Grandmother’s, Warm Ida B Peanut Butter Cookies like grandmother use to make Chicken CatchaStory like mom made (phonetically joking as can’t remember how to spell Chicken CatchAstory)

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]]> By: Cindy http://blog.drphil.com/2009/11/09/emotional-eating/comment-page-1/#comment-6779 Cindy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:26:30 +0000 http://blog.drphil.com/?p=1772#comment-6779 My parents died about 20 years ago. I was overweight when they died, and have gained 69 pounds since they died. I had to deal with the stress of living on my own, going to college and looking for a job. I have had to go through alot of stress by myself. I sometimes did not have enough money to buy the right kinds of food that I should be eating. I am currently unemployed and I have no car. I have been without a car for 16 years. I had to take the city bus or walk for transportation. I am presently in debt with school loans. I have had to move numerous times because I did not make enough money to pay my bills when I had a job. I had a part time state job that was seasonal. I got sick and had to have surgery. I explained to my employer that I had surgery before working for them the last time. After working there 12 years as a seasonal worker they put me on the do not call list. I had no medical leave or benefits with this job. I sent them a doctor's note stating that I had surgery. When I applied at the temporary service that they had recently outsourced the work to, they told me that they could not give me my job back. Now I am dealing with unemployment, no car and school loan debt. I also have to have surgery again. My blood pressure is up and the doctor wants to wait until I can get it down. Eating potato chips, candy bars or a whole pizza or 6 donuts did not help my situation any. I can not eat just one potato chip I have to eat the whole bag. I try to take one day at a time. I am still currently in school. I just need a few more classes and I will have an Associate's Degree. The way the job market is I do not know how long it will take to find a job. I am currently on food stamps and they are not enough assistance to buy the foods that I should buy. I would appreciate any help or advice you might have Dr. Phil. I am presently approximately 130 pounds overweight. I did not have this weight problem when I lived at home with my parents and I had a car. My parents died about 20 years ago. I was overweight when they died, and have gained 69 pounds since they died.

I had to deal with the stress of living on my own, going to college and looking for a job. I have had to go through alot of stress by myself. I sometimes did not have enough money to buy the right kinds of food that I should be eating. I am currently unemployed and I have no car. I have been without a car for 16 years. I had to take the city bus or walk for transportation. I am presently in debt with school loans. I have had to move numerous times because I did not make enough money to pay my bills when I had a job. I had a part time state job that was seasonal. I got sick and had to have surgery. I explained to my employer that I had surgery before working for them the last time. After working there 12 years as a seasonal worker they put me on the do not call list. I had no medical leave or benefits with this job. I sent them a doctor’s note stating that I had surgery. When I applied at the temporary service that they had recently outsourced the work to, they told me that they could not give me my job back.

Now I am dealing with unemployment, no car and school loan debt. I also have to have surgery again. My blood pressure is up and the doctor wants to wait until I can get it down.

Eating potato chips, candy bars or a whole pizza or 6 donuts did not help my situation any. I can not eat just one potato chip I have to eat the whole bag.

I try to take one day at a time. I am still currently in school. I just need a few more classes and I will have an Associate’s Degree. The way the job market is I do not know how long it will take to find a job.

I am currently on food stamps and they are not enough assistance to buy the foods that I should buy.

I would appreciate any help or advice you might have Dr. Phil.

I am presently approximately 130 pounds overweight. I did not have this weight problem when I lived at home with my parents and I had a car.

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