Bummed

So I have been doing really good, had a check up today they are really happy with where I am at and what do I do when things get completely mental when I get home.   I dont measure, I dont consider what I am doing and I eat without thought.    Stress, I can not get it through anyones head that when I get freaked I reach for food.   I know this is my problem and I should deal with it cause:   A.  they are only kids,   B.   My issue    C.  I know better.   Now I am feeling sorry for myself.   I can not let this not be my life changing event if I want to continue to have a life.    DAMN.

First of all, beating up on yourself just makes you feel bad.  Stop it!  Talk to yourself the way another person would talk to you.  Secondly, this is a great learning opportunity -- which is perfect for this "honeymoon" phase, because this is when we are supposed to learn.  So, a suggestion is grab for protein, next time.  Some low fat Sargento cheddar sticks are comforting and full of good nutrients.

Smiling at you,            
    
Hattie

Ditto that...stop beating yourself up. Most of us had to face that demon.
SO........while it sounds simple, just start by doing something different.
When stres****s, stop and do something different than food.  Sing.
Laugh out loud.  Have your kids sing a silly song.  Do something
radically different...silly...crazy....whatever....just different.  Maybe you
only do it once and forget a time or 2, but keep working at it.  You have to
change the "tune" and stop playing the same tune over and over and over.
You only change it by well.....changing it.  I eat when I'm bored.  I still
sometimes eat when I'm bored, but what I do is keep myself busy. I
will clean my clean house over and over if I have to.  Mop clean floors?
....darn straight!
It beats eating and gaining weight!  If I find myself without something to
do...I FIND something to do...I MAKE something to do that does not
involve being bored. I burned out on knitting hats and scarves for
everybody I know, so I painted the whole inside of my house from ceilings
to floors. It was needed.  Now I'm making "budget binders" for family.
I baked and decorated gingerbread men and sugar cookie snowmen
and stars and promptly took them to the kids next door.  You get my drift.
I raised 5 kids so I know that stress. When I hit my limit with all the girls
screaming "mom" this and "mom" that...I started a thing where I told
them I would only answer to "Gertrude".  I figured it was a hard enough
name to remember that I would have some peace.  Well, they wore it
out, I can tell you that.  But we ended up doing a lot of giggling instead
of yelling and getting mad.  To this day when I laugh out loud pretty
abruptly, my boss knows I'm about to blow.  I figured out a way around
stress and when things get ridiculous, I learned to just laugh out loud
and it has a way of diffusing the stress.  Now I actually DO find stress
pretty ridiculously funny and I seldom have to force a laugh. 
So, ease up, take it one day at a time, and make life what you want it
to be. You're in the driver's seat.  Good luck!