Tips to Stop Over Eating/ Mindless Eating?

Try pre-logging your food for the day so you have a plan you can follow. Use your scale and measuring cups to create the correct portions that you planned for

Use a smaller plate! And fill it with veggies (at least half). Having that full plate will trick your mind into eating less. Another thing that helps is once you serve yourself, and before you eat, box up any leftovers and put them in the fridge so you can't go back for seconds as easily.

And don't do anything else but eat while you're eating. No computer, no TV, etc. it helps you focus and be more mindful of what's going in your mouth!

I try and keep all that type of food out of the house. If you're not in a position to do that, then I get myself a glass of water and tell myself if I really want it, I'll have it after my water. I've usually talked myself out of it by the time I've stopped drinking the glass of water (:

All great advice! Learned some ideas today for me here.

I have a "mindless" habit sometimes too. I make a rabbit plate - load a plate with low cal veggies - I don't even add dip or dressing. Sometimes I add a little lunchmeat and/or cheese stick for kicks but that's it. Then I let myself munch to my heart's content. I know, it's not chips but I learned that if I'm being mindless it didn't much matter what I had in front of me. I'd eat dirt -

just kidding.

I too have to avoid trigger foods. I envy moderation people. I do not have the concept in my abilities. Maybe I will eventually. I can't have any croutons around me. I eat a few "for a snack" then the bag is gone. All at once. Mindlessly eating away until they are gone. Another of mine is starchy sweet treats - like pastry. Banished. Snack mixes - BAM gone. But I am head food shopper and cook and the only other person in the house is on a low carb/whatever I give him plan. His trigger is potato chips. So we don't buy them. His other would be peanut butter crackers. None of these items are necessarily evil, but I can't be left alone with them. It's not them it's me... LOL

Try pre-logging your food for the day so you have a plan you can follow. Use your scale and measuring cups to create the correct portions that you planned for

This works. I do better when I plan ahead.

What I do is very expensive and inconvienent... I actually stop at a gas station store on the way home from work and buy single serving deserts. If I have a box of something at home there is literally no stopping me. If I only have one of something then there is no way I can eat more than what I have budgeted in. I really really enjoy eating a sweet treat at night after dinner and I look for packages that have multiples of things (like a bag of little cookies or a package of two twinkies) so I can feel like I'm eating more than just one thing. Yeah, that isn't addressing my issue of why do I have to eat more than one thing, but it works for me!

I lol'd at the first part! Definitely something I would (and probably will) do haha

I just have trouble using the food log. It's a hassel for me to enter and find foods... Bad attitude I know. I guess I just have to suck it up and start using it because when I do actually log all my foods for the day it does help me stop myself from having an extra biscotti lol.

Yes, log. Log log log. If you eat it, log it. Not only will you then see how many calories are in whatever you crammed in your mouth (like the time I ate a pint of Ben & Jerry's and logged it...omg...never again), but also, BECAUSE it's a pain to log stuff, you may find yourself only eating foods that are worth logging! haha! Once you log for a while it becomes a habit and way easier. Things you eat frequently will show up in your frequent tab and you don't have to search for them, etc. MFP has helped a lot of people - give the logging a try!

I always try to log my food before I eat it so I know if I have enough calories, and how many calories I'll have left afterwards, etc.