Not stress eating led to panic attack

I am an emotional eater. I've always known that and have done my best to work around it.

But I want to kick the habit, since I've started catching myself eating snacks I don't feel like eating, just to stick to my meal plan and curb uncontrolled snacking.

A few days ago I really tried to follow the usual good advice - I drank water. I walked up and down the hallway a couple of times. I acknowledged to myself that I actually don't even have an appetite. I kept asking myself, "it's not hunger, it's not thirst, it's not boredom, what do I want?" and then realized shit, I think I'm having a panic attack.

That has never happened before. I'm a high anxiety person. I overthink and stress about a lot of things. I'm a little neurotic at the best of times. But I've never had a panic attack before. My heart was pounding and I had to lay down because I don't think I've ever felt despair like that.

How do I deal with that?? Everything I look up online is about what to eat to stop anxiety. Or how anxiety leads to a loss of appetite. These are the opposite of my problem. I'm scared this will happen at work if I deny myself a snack.

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