Boitumelo on Overcoming Emotional
Emotional or comfort eating is the tendency to eat in response to emotions. It’s when food is used to soothe or suppress a negative emotion, such as loneliness, anger, irritation, boredom, or stress. Boitumelo Pule who has struggled with her weight all of
Thank you for making time to share your weightloss journey with us. Tell us a bit about yourself, your background and how it possibly shaped your relationship with food?
I am a 43yr old lady. Up until i was 10yrs old i was skinny, I then started gaining weight. I think most of my weight was due to junk foods since my parents were working so most of the time we were eating anything available, which was mainly bread, biscuits and drink.I never liked being fat, from a very young age I did many things in effort to lose weight but persistently failed and ended up frustrated. My self-perception and people’s comments frustrated me and led me to comfort eating. Most of the time I was not even conscious of the fact that I am overeating.
Your journey towards weight loss has been inspirational to a lot people, judging by the following your have on social media and I would bet in your everyday life as well. It wasn’t an easy fit though, has it? Take us
through it…
In the beginning it was not easy because I had to fight my old habits and put all efforts in staying consistent and building new habits. From my time at university, I used to try different things in attempt to lose weight.
When I started working I spent money on gyms, diets, products in attempt to lose weight. In 2012 when I was preparing for my wedding, I went to the extent of tying my teeth in attempt to lose weight. Once I really made the decision to turn my life around though, it was not easy. A 1km walk at 132kg was a tall order but my desire to win the battle kept me going. The emotional tall was
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What was the lowest point/part about being overweight? How long did you struggle What were the primary emotions or situations that triggered your emotional eating episodes?
• What I saw everytime I looked into the mirror.
• Multiple challenges in my life, both profesional and social.
• Feeling that I am failure due to the see saw relationship I had with weight loss