No1WiderFan wrote:

greattaste I'm particularly interested in hearing what you have to say! I've always been an emotional eater and thinking things like "I deserve this comfort food and then I'll be good again tomorrow/Monday/etc." WW has definitely been helping me think about food more logically as fuel, but also gives me room to still have indulgences. I go to therapy once a week (I call it my brain gym), and that's been helping me handle my emotions as well. I think a combination of a program plus therapy has allowed me to have much more success this time around than diet changes I've implemented before therapy!

I am personally not really a fan of Weight Watchers, but it is good for helping people to learn how to portion.  I tried it a few years ago and did not find it sustainable.  Taylor actually talks a lot about how it makes her psycho, and I had a similar experience with it.

It does work for some people, but I think I just felt really deprived on it (probably because I love eating so much). If you honestly don't feel like you are depriving yourself and you feel like the diet is sustainable to last forever, it may work.  The downfall is that if you go off of it, there is a really strong chance you could gain the weight back and then some.

As far as psychology goes, it kind of goes back to your brain chemistry.  We have reactions to food in our dopamine pathway, which is our pleasure center and going on a diet can either increase the dopamine you release when you eat or decrease it.  If it causes an increase, you are more likely to be successful (but to an extreme it could cause you to deprive your body of nourishment and nutrients that it needs to thrive), but if it ends up decreasing the dopamine, it will cause you to binge to get that back up (which is essentially the same for a lot of things - this the pathway that is linked with addiction).  

The dopamine reaction (in a simplified sense) is what causes us to eat emotionally, and we tend to use food as a coping mechanism.  If you do emotionally eat, it's important to find some kind of alternative behavior that gives you pleasure that's not food.  For instance, for me, sometimes if I want to eat, but I am not hungry, I sing.