Love of food

FatGinger8108

Where to begin! I'm a compulsive binge eater and I know it. I live food and there is no one thing that triggers it. I have come a long way this last month with trying to correct this way of eating but yet I still struggle and not 100% there yet. I feel controlling my eating first is the way to start then I can focus on dropping pound after pound. I am using my fitness pal again but being truthful to myself when I use it. That did not happen last time. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as well. Oh and I am looking for buddies who struggle as well to be my friend on here so we may help each other. Good luck to everyone!

slimjame

If you add me as a friend, you will see my shameful fast food logs, cupcake logs, lots of ice cream logs, etc. I am 53.5lbs down in the last 5 months and I have yet to completely straighten out my love of food issues. With that being said, I was determined to lose weight regardless of my compulsive eating habits. How did I manage? Exercise and replacing horrible foods when I can. I am so used to going and getting a large McDonald's meal and then having three chocolate chip cookies (at least). Changing my diet felt impossible. In fact, I hardly changed much at first. When I first started I was able to change my large coke to a diet coke. I originally changed 3 cookies for a low fat ice cream cone. I logged everything and exercised everything off. If I didn't have enough calories or couldn't exercise so that I could have the calories to cover that food then I didn't eat it. OR if I wanted it really bad and couldn't make calories for it...then I would spend the next however many days working it off. I would do a half hour on one day to cover a day that happened 2-4 days ago. It worked for me. This was working for me for a while, maybe 4 out of my 5 months. Then I started to reach a point on the scale where I was only losing .5lbs to maybe 1lb at the most. It was awful and I started to feel terrible about myself. I then made a food plan. See, I have an advantage right now. My boyfriend and I are young. We work from home on our own business, which hardly uses any of my time for the day. I do not have children and I have a small amount of responsibility. This has allowed me to exercises for hours at a time and to eat the same meal if that is what I wanted to do. ...Well, that is what I decided to do. I have too many choices. I wanted a meal plan that would let me select a few different options, but only a little bit. I have a tendency to want too much and never feel full or satisfied. My current meal plan has been helping me break my old habits so much. I'm currently eating:
2 cups of cheerios for breakfast
soup for lunch (chunky..whole container..delicious)
salad from sheetz (lettuce, cheese, bacon bits, croutons) for dinner
tasty-kake pastry (both in the pack) and dark chocolate pudding for dessert

This brings me a little bit over my 1,200 calorie goal. With that being said, I feel so full. Sometimes I add 5oz of red grapes in there, which pushes me over my sugar -- but that's alright.

I think my point is that it gets easier over time. You try new things and you fail, but one of the tries will leave you to success and it will just start to work for you.

Feel free to add me as a friend !