Help, I have eating problems

immahappyhappyhorse

I don't know if anyone will see this but here goes...

I've been trying to lose weight for years now and I've only been gaining. I told myself I'd finally stop being unhealthy and actually work towards losing weight properly. It's currently about 4 months into that decision and I'm still at the same weight I started.

This is mainly because of my unhealthy relationship with food. In the past, I tried a low calorie diet (the 900 calorie egg, green tea, apple and oatmeal diet) and indeed it worked, but I ended up feeling fatigued and dizzy all the time. Plus the thought of eating eggs nauseated me. Eventually I went back to binging on junk and regained all the lost weight (water weight probably).

I tried eating "normal" instead of following low calorie diets, and I ate chicken, broccoli and rice for breakfast, sweet potato and cauliflower for lunch, etc. But I didn't feel full after eating the meals. Even if I did feel full, I didn't feel satiated enough and would end up bingeing on junk food again. I just can't stay away from snacking on foods.

Doesn't help that my mother loves to buy junk food and high calorie foods that she knows I cannot resist.

I know that it's unhealthy to be yoyo dieting but I absolutely cannot stop, though I've been telling myself for years to stop.

I guess the problem is that I love food too much. I love to eat and I can't stop that. Can anyone please help me? How do I kick the snacking habit? I've tried eating healthier snacks like fruits and homemade kale chips but they don't satisfy me the way junk food do.

I'm about 5"4 (163cm), weighing around 153lbs (70kg), hoping to lose at least 15kg in maybe 6 months or as much as I can be satisfied with when looking at myself.

Someone please do help me out!! Maybe a little advice and motivation can help me stick to a plan of healthy eating that doesn't consist of daily binging or unhealthy diet plans.

quiksylver296

Buy a food scale. Commit to weighing and logging everything you eat for two weeks. Don't change your diet - just log.

After two weeks of honest logging, examine your food diary and determine where you can make some small, positive tweaks that you can sustain forever. Maybe it's adding a vegetable a day. Commit to that, do it for two weeks, while still weighing and logging. Then make another small tweak, maybe only one soda per day. Rinse and repeat.

thelettermegan

You might want to try getting more protein and leafy greens into your diet, instead of focusing on 'low cal'. Make a goal of eliminating all but one of the carbs from your diet. The 900 calories might be a little low, which is why you're resorting to the snacks.

I personally love eggs but I usually get the most organic/cage-free/happy/grass-fed eggs I can find ( I can taste the difference) and then I put a bit of cheese and tortilla chips with salsa on them and that will usually last me until noon.

Try to rope your mother into the program. Give her the old "I don't want to lose my mummy to crisps" trip. Funnel the money she saves into high quality produce/protein.

diannethegeek

immahappyhappyhorse wrote: »

I don't know if anyone will see this but here goes...

I've been trying to lose weight for years now and I've only been gaining. I told myself I'd finally stop being unhealthy and actually work towards losing weight properly. It's currently about 4 months into that decision and I'm still at the same weight I started.

This is mainly because of my unhealthy relationship with food. In the past, I tried a low calorie diet (the 900 calorie egg, green tea, apple and oatmeal diet) and indeed it worked, but I ended up feeling fatigued and dizzy all the time. Plus the thought of eating eggs nauseated me. Eventually I went back to binging on junk and regained all the lost weight (water weight probably).

I tried eating "normal" instead of following low calorie diets, and I ate chicken, broccoli and rice for breakfast, sweet potato and cauliflower for lunch, etc. But I didn't feel full after eating the meals. Even if I did feel full, I didn't feel satiated enough and would end up bingeing on junk food again. I just can't stay away from snacking on foods.

Doesn't help that my mother loves to buy junk food and high calorie foods that she knows I cannot resist.

I know that it's unhealthy to be yoyo dieting but I absolutely cannot stop, though I've been telling myself for years to stop.

I guess the problem is that I love food too much. I love to eat and I can't stop that. Can anyone please help me? How do I kick the snacking habit? I've tried eating healthier snacks like fruits and homemade kale chips but they don't satisfy me the way junk food do.

I'm about 5"4 (163cm), weighing around 153lbs (70kg), hoping to lose at least 15kg in maybe 6 months or as much as I can be satisfied with when looking at myself.

Someone please do help me out!! Maybe a little advice and motivation can help me stick to a plan of healthy eating that doesn't consist of daily binging or unhealthy diet plans.

There's no one right answer to how you diet. We're going to throw a lot of different suggestions at you and hopefully you can sort out what might help you and what won't. So don't feel like you need to take anything suggested here as absolute gospel.

A diet like you described as the "normal" diet of chicken, broccoli, and rice, etc. wouldn't leave me feeling very satisfied either. Hunger is a funny thing. People are filled up by different things. Some people are volume eaters and veggies are their best friend. Some people find a high protein diet more satiating. Me, I need to have some kind of fat with my meals or I'm snacky all night. I tried the 10 fruits & veggies a day challenge and it was definitely not for me. If I don't have a piece of cheese, or some oil, or a little sauce or something, I'm gonna want to snack all night!

I love food too. And I love snacking. Which is why I never cut it out, just made it fit into my calorie goals. I still include comfort foods, little bits of "junk," snacks, etc into my diet most days. Your diet doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be good enough to get you into a calorie deficit to start with. Then you can play around and see what works for you.

It sounds like you haven't tried just tracking the foods you are eating now, without trying to change your diet or try the newest fad. That's where you might consider starting. Not with a big huge diet overhaul, because the big huge diet overhauls don't seem to be working out for you. Small changes over time might be the way to go.

And if you still feel like you truly cannot stop eating, then you may want to look into other options like therapy, support groups, or books like Brain Over Binge that focus on CBT techniques.