How long does it take...

kristen5286

Before your whole day doesn't revolve around food. About wanting it, and not eating it. Thinking what you can have instead, Thinking what you want and how hard you have to work before you can eat it...

UGH! It's starting to annoy me! I am, obviously, a bored eater... I've been good.. but it's taking all my strength ha ha!

pkgirrl

It took me about a month before I started getting used to eating what I needed, instead of everything I wanted. I find if I plan all my food the night before, and make sure the majority of it is prepared though, that helps, because at least I don't spend hours playing mix and match with my calories on here, thinking about what I can eat later if I have this now, yada yada yada.

You can do it!

NoAdditives

It depends on how quickly you make the right choices. If you stop buying junk food, cut out sugar and refined carbs completely, it can happen within a week. If you try to wean yourself off of soda, cookies, etc. it will take much longer.

neelia

I've been at this 125 days and I am still hungry 24/7

iamhealingmyself

I've been on MFP since January 1st and I still feel that 90% of my thoughts are food related but now they're turning to how am I going to eat that many calories and what other good choices are there instead of what flavor band-aid do I want to eat today? I actually look forward to eating because it's a challenge now for me to eat consciously. It's not like I'm depriving myself of anything. Make it fit into your numbers but you have to be real with yourself. The longer you go the easier choices will become but portioning is a life long lesson and we will always want to have an extra serving of something. There's no harm in that if you don't make it your way of living.

The longer I go on making better nutritionally sound choices, the more I find I don't want, nor enjoy the things I used to eat like candy, cookies cakes, etc.... I'm a reformed carb junkie. I could do better but for me, staying under 200g a day on average is a major victory and the carbs I am eating are better quality and slower burning so I'm not up and down the sugar/mood rollercoaster, unless I'm in a position where I end up too long between meals or not eating enough.

Things will change and will get easier, just don't give up. The first steps of anything are the hardest. Keep with it and soon you'll be amazed that you could ever eat the way you did. :drinker:

SouthernBell86

You know I am not sure at what point my thoughts really stopped being all about food. I agree with what some others have said though, you need to go through a phase where you kind of challenge yourself to figure out how you fit all your nutrients in each day within the calorie budget.

It kind of became like a game of sorts for me. Find the most nutritious food with low amounts of calories and make it taste good. I found myself willing to try things I had always "hated" and realized that there were different ways of preparing them that didn't taste bad. I was still food obsessed for a while, but instead of thinking "what will make me feel better emotionally" I was thinking "what will make my body stronger and healthier, and therefor my brain happier in the long term as well."

After a while those things and portion sizes become habit. I still try to challenge myself to try new veggies and fruits and other healthy things I hear about so I don't get bored with eating healthy and get junk food.

Good luck though! You can do this as long as you keep your eye on the prize!