Thinking about food all the time!

You think about food because your brain is receiving pleasure from the activity of eating. I think the secret to stop thinking about food all the time is to find something else to satisfy that pleasure urge.

I'm with you sister!!! I suffer from the exact same thing.

When I go to sleep at night I am already thinking about breakfast. When I am working out in the morning I think about how hungry I feel and how good it is going to be to eat breakfast and pray that today will be the day I feel satisfied afterward.

Since joining MFP I have really been focusing on trying to watch my behaviors towards food. I seem obsessed with it.

Since I DO think about food almost every minute of the day I have spread out my meal times by 2-3 hours. Even at this interval, I find myself to be feeling hungry. I don't know if I am really hungry or if I am just bored and think I am hungry- I CANT TELL THE DIFFERENCE!!! When I look at the food I eat during the day you would with I would have any reason to feel hungry. I drink tea multiple times a day just to get me through to my next food fix!! (lol)

I have posted something similar to your post on MFP before. The most common response is that I am ADDICTED to food, problem is food isn't something you can cut cold turkey like alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs- so what is the solution?? I'm not sure.

I grow frustrated with myself as I see myself make really bad choices ( sunday I at an entire bag of chocolate covered raisins- 1lbs. bag) I separated each serving to prevent myself from eating too much but for some reason, I kept running back to the kitchen in some sort of trance--- later when I logged my calories I was shocked to see I ate all my calories for the day!!! It was only 2pm.

Sorry I am not much help. I know how you feel.... the only advice I can give is don't give up!! I'm not going to. I am going to keep fighting this.. even if I never am completely free of all my food thoughts at least I am making better choices. Work in progress....

Ha! OMG you're funny! I am this way too but with all food all the time. I just love it! Especially baked foods and sweets!!!! I totally understand. AA has those books for one day at a time....they need that for Food Addicts!

I find myself doing alright during the day, but as soon as it gets dark out, it seems like I become a bottomless pit. All I can think about is food and I am constantly walking back and forth between the table in the living room where I'm working and the kitchen pantry. I usually glance through the cupboards and fridge and then head back to the table to work. I don't always grab food, but when I do it's typically "junk" like chips or cookies. I've recently gotten rid of all of that type of food and only have semi-healthy snacks like popcorn. I'll have to try drinking tea more. I've found that reaching for water just doesn't help- I need the taste of something to feel like I'm filling up. I'm a fan of Stevia since it's sweet with no calories and just one carb. Maybe that will help with the desire to eat.

I agree that this is an addiction, and it is damnably difficult to change the, "Eat NOW!" mentality. Hopefully we'll all get there, in time.

^^This is me. I'm all gravy until after dinner. No matter how satisfying dinner is, I find myself craving half the damn fridge afterwards. Best thing that has helped me are protein shakes. I make a cake batter shake I found on Pinterest and that satisfies my sweet tooth, and even though I still want to nom nom on everything in sight, I'm too damn full to.

As much as I hate to mention a certain other weight-loss programs (Eight-way Atchers-way)... their focus is on the lifestyle, not the "diet." They don't want to call it a diet at all. You DO have to think about it a lot because you have to change how you think which is difficult.

If you are hungry a lot of the time, maybe you're not eating enough of the right foods? Not eating the right combination?

Personally, i have noticed that my cravings have really tapered off. I'm in my....um...I think 3rd week with MFP and I've noticed a real change. Also, having to log in and "spend" points makes me very mindful of what I'm eating.

2 cents. :flowerforyou:

I've suffered from this exact thing.. twice. Both times, I went 3 months, eating EXTREMELY clean; not one unhealthy snack or meal. The thing is, I've always been addicted to horrible food, and dropping it off like what I did caused my cravings to skyrocket, and I was always wanting to eat because I never felt satisfied while not fufiling my cravings.
Sadly, this caused me to binge eat horrible food and end up gaining more weight than I lost.. both times. What I'm doing now (and you and many other people may not agree with) is incorperating a "cheat meal". A meal + dessert of WHATEVER you're craving for that sitting. I used to do this once a week (I scheduled Sunday's to be my "cheat meal day"), but as I started to not crave these foods nearly as much, I've progressed to eating my "cheat meal" once every 2 weeks (now it's every second Sunday).
Having one cheat meal per week/bi-weekly is actually proven to be benificial for weight loss too. It will shock your body, confusing it from the traditional healthy food, and causing a tremendous metabolism boost.

Well, I hope my word helped, and good luck with everything!

I have heard of something similar to this. In high school a teacher of mine was eating healthy to lose weight and he told us he had this "diet" where he was allowed one cheat day each month. As long as he exercised and ate healthy the rest of the month, he had one day where he could pretty much eat whatever he wanted and not worry about gaining weight. I am thinking in a couple of weeks, after I get more settled into my new eating habits, I will try this cheat thing out.