I mentioned on another thread that I wanted to bring up this topic.

I have spent much of my adult life gaining and losing weight. I have also suffered from depression. I know that I eat for emotional reasons. I have been really working hard on myself and getting my head okay. But this is what I'm wondering about....

I have always known that I have issues going back to childhood that cause me pain as an adult and cause me to eat. Like I said above, I've been working very hard for 10 years to "get better". I have come ALONG way, but I have been really frustrated that I still continue to over eat. I know that much of it is habit, but even still, I am frustrated that I'm still so plagued by over eating.

So, in Adkins book, he talks about the emotional garbage that can come from eating too many carbs, the depression, the basic unhappiness, etc. A light bulb came on for me, and I started wondering if THIS is the reason I have continued to eat for (what I felt was) emotional reasons, even after having gotten over my emotional baggage. I have begged for answers as to why I was so compelled to over eat, and now I wonder if it wasn't physical-----simply too many carbs in a body that doesn't do well will so many carbs------kindof an emotional response to a physical problem.

Does any of this resound with you? Have any of you been able to look at your previous over eating (since being on Adkins or an LC diet) and say, OH! That's a huge reason why I felt emotionally unbalanced and why I just wanted to eat, eat, eat!

Also, someone else was saying (in another thread) that they wondered why they had so much self control while on this plan.....more self control than ever before. I have had the same thing and am hoping it lasts! I've thought it had to do with the reasons I mention above (that being on high carb causes you to feel the need to constantly eat for emotional reasons and now the low carb is allowing me to just feel "normal" about eating) and also because the high protien and high fat really do control hunger better so you don't _need_ the willpower.

Sorry so long! I've been wanting to post this since yesterday but knew I'd have to spend a while writing it to get my point across!

Thoughts?