Why do I think about food ALL THE TIME?

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  • mmm_drop
    mmm_drop Posts: 1,126 Member
    I replaced food with sex.

    Works like a charm.
  • pienthesky32
    pienthesky32 Posts: 142 Member
    Bump for the answer to my obsession too. I feel ya honey.
  • atcross
    atcross Posts: 26 Member
    I think this is a symptom of calorie-counting. First of all, you've reduced your intake and that takes some time to get used to before the hunger normalizes. Then, if you're like me, you're carefully planning all your meals and snacks for the day so that you won't exceed your goal cal/day. Then you have to worry about how you're going to avoid temptation throughout the day and distract yourself when you get the munchies. I feel like my whole life revolves around food, and I can't have a normal social life (i.e. meeting friends for lunch, holidays, and vacations are fraught with temptation to overindulge and the consequent remorse). Calorie-counting is the only diet that works for me, but let's all admit it: it's a total drag!

    One thing that helps for me is to plan and prepare my meals for the following week each weekend. I make a huge pot of nutritious, high-protien, high-fiber soup and enter it in My Recipes so I know the cals/serving and I don't have to worry about dinners for the rest of the week.
  • GingerLolita
    GingerLolita Posts: 738 Member
    I find it helpful to give myself food "deadlines." I try to always eat breakfast between 6-9, a snack between 9-12, lunch between 12-3, an afternoon snack between 3-6, dinner between 6-9, and dessert between 9-12. I know I can't eat anything else until the next eating "window" or I'll be hungry for hours, so it helps me have the willpower to wait.
  • hrnakshi
    hrnakshi Posts: 1
    I am facing it too.

    I never overeat, nor am I on a diet...but especially at work I constantly feel like eating and my focus seems to go to food more than on my work. I dont know why this is happening.I do not act on my thoughts so I do not binge or eat "in between"...or too often....but I keep craving to eat even if I'm not hungry...and its not for anything in particular... I just think of food and feel..." maybe I can have a few bites..." but i'm not hungry. I wasnt like this 10 days ago. It is a recent phenomenon.
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