Filling the "void" with food.
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Originally Posted by CallMeComplex 
I'm a big dude already, and I'm a nervous eater. I fill in that void by smoking and drinking too. Many times I have to decided to just "drink my dinner" but always I snack later, and this of course is no longer an option. I'm wondering if there are any foods that trigger cravings for alcohol (for me would be pizza -beer- and mexican food -margs-) I don't eat either without drinking, like many other types of food I guess. Has anyone had any luck with foods or snacks that curb their cravings? Sounds weird but looking for all the help I can get. Thanks.
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Welcome CallMeComplex 
I've personally never had foods that either triggered a craving or stopped one - but I do think it's important to eat properly and regularly ....hunger can be one of the triggers of cravings (the HALT acronym for craving trigger points...Hungry Angry Lonely Tired).
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I've personally never had foods that either triggered a craving or stopped one - but I do think it's important to eat properly and regularly ....hunger can be one of the triggers of cravings (the HALT acronym for craving trigger points...Hungry Angry Lonely Tired).
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CMC...I've struggled with this stuff all of my life and have spent a great deal of time trying to investigate the reasons for me.
As far as I can remember, it started when I was about 12 and started with food. I had a mentally ill parent and was born with a brain chemistry that put me right in a danger zone. I only have flashes of memory before I was around 12 but around that time I remember a lot of anxiety and using food not to survive but to become satiated. This is the first instance of abuse of anything that I can remember and I did it because I was missing something emotionally.
In my late teens I turned to drugs and alcohol for many of the same reasons and have been battling since. I've abused food, spending money, alcohol, drugs, porn, steroids, exercise....just about everything that there is a group for and then some. When I have had enough of one I move to another.
The problem is, because of all the years of abuse, I have only created more reasons to feel bad about myself and continue an abusive cycle. I wish I would have known a better tool way back when I was 12. It may have saved me some pain. When you train your brain "this is how I deal with this feeling" for so long, it becomes set in your behavior and is harder to reverse.
Today, when I go to abuse something in order to satiate myself, I try to slow it all down and ask myself "what is the real emotion that I'm feeling right now" and I try to just wait a bit to see if that craving passes or try to handle it in a healthy manner.
As far as I can remember, it started when I was about 12 and started with food. I had a mentally ill parent and was born with a brain chemistry that put me right in a danger zone. I only have flashes of memory before I was around 12 but around that time I remember a lot of anxiety and using food not to survive but to become satiated. This is the first instance of abuse of anything that I can remember and I did it because I was missing something emotionally.
In my late teens I turned to drugs and alcohol for many of the same reasons and have been battling since. I've abused food, spending money, alcohol, drugs, porn, steroids, exercise....just about everything that there is a group for and then some. When I have had enough of one I move to another.
The problem is, because of all the years of abuse, I have only created more reasons to feel bad about myself and continue an abusive cycle. I wish I would have known a better tool way back when I was 12. It may have saved me some pain. When you train your brain "this is how I deal with this feeling" for so long, it becomes set in your behavior and is harder to reverse.
Today, when I go to abuse something in order to satiate myself, I try to slow it all down and ask myself "what is the real emotion that I'm feeling right now" and I try to just wait a bit to see if that craving passes or try to handle it in a healthy manner.
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