Anyone else struggling with food?

Isn't that why we're here?

It really does help me to keep the super tempting foods out of my house. Are you able to do that?

Aren't we all struggling with food?

If I can, I get far away from the kitchen and do something that keeps my hands and mind busy. Cravings usually fade away pretty quickly.

But if I'm sitting here doing my transcription job and can't escape - that's the worst. I try to have some fruit or carrot sticks or something that won't totally derail me. I'm pretty strict with myself about meal-times, so I do my best to wait until a scheduled meal to eat anything. I drink water. I make some green tea.

Eat the chips or ice cream if it fits in your calorie goal. Learn how to have self control and eat in moderation. For me its the only way to go.I have been struggling this past week with being extra hungry and eating more than I like. I workout so I am not in the red but its a bummer to see I ate up a ton of calories that I worked hard to get off. Just take one day at a time and I am sure you will do fine.

While I'm trying to give up my favorite junk food, this is the method I'm currently using. I see if I have enough calories left to have some. If so, I'll have a handful of chips rather than bringing the whole bag in the other room with me, or I'll put some ice cream in a coffee mug rather than putting it in a big bowl.

I don't want to shock my body by not giving it Doritos or ice cream anymore, lol

I do this too, and I rarely have calories for cookies at night, so I keep a huge container of cut up veggies ready to eat in the fridge to eat, and if I'm hungry at night, i eat as much as I want of these veggies. But I generally find I'm not really hungry, just bored. So I stay out of the kitchen and find something to occupy my mind. If I'm really craving something, I brush my teeth and take a little walk or do some deadlifts. Generally I forget about wanting the cookie or chips.

eat whatever you like but in smaller portions.

I kept on drinking wine, but 2 glasses instead of 3; and still have an occasional bowl of peanuts before dinner but just measure out 50g and add it to my daily intake.

as someone above said, you soon cut some out anyway by doing this, I haven't eaten a potato chip this year :-)

You have hit on my biggest struggle, here are some things that worked for me:

-drink an extra glass of water before I eat and wait 10 more minutes before I do, but I do eat.
-Costco, I have three things from there, single bags of popped chips, skinny cow ice cream sandwiches and kirkland sleeping aid-pills to get to sleep easier on an emptier stomach...I suspect I spent years training my body to only fall asleep when it was crazy full
-a cup of hot chocolate every night
-I walk my dogs every night, but sometimes I throw a LATE night walk on top and that seems to distract my hunger. If no dog, consider adopting/saving one from a shelter.

I think this is common and it takes time to change but you now realize what the problem is so you can address it.

Some thing's I've done to change this behavior in myself:

1. Save calories for later in the day

2. Do 20 minutes of exercise in the evening after dinner. (kills my appatite, maybe won't do the same for you?)

3. Study my food diary before eating in the evening so I can decide if the calories are worth it to me or not. (That beer looks refreshing but do I want to drink 200 calories or eat 200 calories)

4. Weigh everything I eat. (I bought a different brand of almonds last week and noticed that, by weight, I get fewer nuts with the new ones. If I'd have eyeballed them I would have never noticed and not known I was taking in more calories than I thought)

5. I'm weak and can't have some foods (ice cream, baked goods, etc) in the house or I'll eat it.

Good luck.

I try to not keep it in the house. But much like weaning your self off any other kind of bad-for-you-thing don't stop cold turkey. I've never smoked a day in my life but have been around people who have stopped. Sometimes you need to wean off. Try to replace at first, instead of full fat ice cream, switch to frozen yogurt; instead of full fat chips try baked chips. As you clean your system your taste buds will change. I used to eat a bag of chips in 2 days, now I do not care for them at all. I still eat frozen yogurt but maybe once a month. If you have that one item in your life that you cannot live without: DON'T. Mine is dark chocolate and wine. Learn to budget. It's like you budget your money, budget your calories. Once you are out of calories (money) you are out of eating (spending).

Don't buy chips and ice cream. I like that stuff too but I know if it's there I'm going to want it. I refuse to be powerless over my need to eat that garbage. Therefore it does not make it into my kitchen.

it is a bit of a struggle but you don't have to torture yourself. Like today I am doing really well since morning but craving sweets like crazy so I went for a walk and bought two tootsie rolls... I honestly logged them in right away but I do remember earlier in the week I promised myself No sweets this week... I'll just watch total calories..

I started intermittent fasting, I can eat in an 8 hour period, but after that I can only have water. I only started doing this yesterday, but I think in the long-run it will help with nighttime grazing.