Molly1 - in addition to trying to figure out why you're emotionally eating, also cut yourself some slack. Remember - this is a new way of life, but it's not your total life. Food is not something we should obsess about - whether we're being 'good' or 'bad'. It's so sad the way we sometimes color the whole way we look at live by how we're eating. If I've been really good for a few days I'm proud of myself, but I really don't think about it that much any more. If I slip up and shouldn't have eaten the bowl of popcorn after my husband made the whole house smell wonderful, well, that's ok - I'll live after having a bowl of popcorn.

I will say that I make my husband hide the scale in the barn - I use it only every few weeks - if it's in the house I obsess SO much more about food.

Good luck - one small step at a time......