What do you do....?

mrsbuzz
mrsbuzz Posts: 576 Member
edited September 21 in Health and Weight Loss
Today I really feel like I want to just eat everything in the house and forget it. It hasn't been a week yet and I just want to eat everything and forget it. Also I feel like I am hungry everything stinkin hour. What do you guys do when this happens? Thanks!

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  • MissAnjy
    MissAnjy Posts: 2,480 Member
    drink water and push forward. Go for a walk maybe, get yourself away from temptations! Remind yourself over and over that if you cheat now, you'll only have to start again in the near future when you again realize that you want to change. You already have a week under your belt, it only gets easier from there, keep on truckin.
  • Kekibird
    Kekibird Posts: 1,122 Member
    Try a little lemon juice in a big bottle of water. Keep it around and take a swig when you feel hungry.

    Also try protein with each meal. It might help you stay fuller longer.

    And keep healthy snacks around so that if you do need to munch, the choices are healthier.

    Hang in there, bad days, weeks, even MONTHS can happen to anyone!!

    Good job on reaching out too for support. That's what we're here for!

    Cheers!
    Katie (aka Kekibird)
  • Bonnie555
    Bonnie555 Posts: 62
    It's all about the distractions, but I did read the following and do not know if it will work because I have not tried it yet:

    order your craving or dish up your craving take two bites and poor salt over the rest - now I am thinking this would work because I love cheese cake and when I go out for coffee I usually eat the whole thing.

    Anyway just a thought:)
  • H_82
    H_82 Posts: 418 Member
    I'm always .... I mean ALWAYS hungry. And think about food constantly, oh how I love food :) But I want to lose weight so bad, so I push through. The busier I am, the less I think about it though.... Oh, who am I kidding, I count the hours down til I can eat again ;) hehe
  • knittygirl52
    knittygirl52 Posts: 432 Member
    Hi there!

    Several months ago I worked through a book called "The Beck Diet Solution" by Judith S. Beck at the suggestion of a counselor I was seeing. It's cognitive-behavior therapy for weight loss. I highly recommend it--this is proving to be the easiest weight loss I've ever had. Among the many things she had you do was try a variety of distraction techniques to see what things work to get your mind off food. For instance, reading, knitting or working on the computer do not work for me. But exercising, dancing, and playing a musical instrument do. The things that work for you will not work for me and vice-versa. What she suggests you do is write up a list of everything you can think to do when you want to eat. One by one you try them and rank them. That will tell you what NOT to do as well as what works best for you.
  • Kekibird
    Kekibird Posts: 1,122 Member
    It's all about the distractions, but I did read the following and do not know if it will work because I have not tried it yet:

    order your craving or dish up your craving take two bites and poor salt over the rest - now I am thinking this would work because I love cheese cake and when I go out for coffee I usually eat the whole thing.

    Anyway just a thought:)

    I've heard this one too. I've never tried it but have always been curious if I could have the diligence to stop after two bites.

    But a good thought!

    Katie (aka Kekibird)
  • adobmeier
    adobmeier Posts: 20 Member
    Are you eating just 3 meals a day? You should consider going to 5 small meals a day and make sure you have plenty of protein in each one...and you can still have some good stuff. McDonalds has a salad thats under 300 calories (the chicken bacon ranch with grilled chicken)
    The weight watchers 1 pt string cheese are tasty and take a long time to eat. I am in my first week too and I am just trying to push through its tough but we are doingi t for a reason, we are ready. The other thing that might be happening is if your eating to many carbs they might be making you hungry. You should not be starving all the time!

    Good luck you can do it!!
  • H_82
    H_82 Posts: 418 Member
    :wink:
    order your craving or dish up your craving take two bites and poor salt over the rest
    Now that's just a waste of good food! :wink:
  • rachel5576
    rachel5576 Posts: 429 Member
    I agree with the water suggestions. Whenever this happens to me and if feel like i could eat everything in sight it's usually because i didnt drink enough water. It really makes a huge difference.

    I like the idea about the salt but would feel bad for wasting the rest of a delicious treat!
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    Use this opportunity to prove how strong you are and fight your craving. Down a glass of water and tell yourself how good you are being to your body by not giving in. Our mind is our most powerful asset in anything we need to accomplish. BE STRONG! You will feel better for it later. :flowerforyou:
  • redefiningmyself
    redefiningmyself Posts: 476 Member
    When I'm hungry I take that as a sign that I need to eat. So I eat something - usually fresh veggies or fruit. For most veggies you can have about 2 cups worth for under 100 calories, and I personally find it very filling.
    Plus I drink a lot of water. I find that helpful too.

    I've only been here about 5 weeks or so, but so far its working for me. I always feel satisfied and haven't over eaten at meals. In the past I've tried distractions and powering through those feelings, and it always ended up in me giving up or binge eating. But that's just me. Everyone has to find what works for best for themself.
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    You shouldn't be hungry. If you are hungry, eat. If you're out of calories for the day, exercise & earn more. If neither is an option, plan what you eat better. Make better choices. Drink 1/2 your weight in ounces of water daily (if you weigh 200 lbs, drink 100 oz).
  • jrich1
    jrich1 Posts: 2,408 Member
    Thats why I eat and snack often and drink lots of water
  • disnyfan
    disnyfan Posts: 39 Member
    "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels"

    REPEAT....

    :laugh:
  • mrsbuzz
    mrsbuzz Posts: 576 Member
    Thanks Everyone:flowerforyou: ....I will try some of these suggestion. I do eat smaller meals through out the day and try and drink my water, but I will try some thing and hopefully works. I don't want to fail again!!!
  • jamie1888
    jamie1888 Posts: 1,704 Member
    Remember why you started this a week ago and keep going!! :flowerforyou:

    Yes, drinks lots of water, eat small meals all day long, etc. And, yes, there will be an adjustment period for your body to get used to your new lifestyle! Just stick with it! Your body will adjust and you will learn how to maximize your calories for the day and keep yourself full!
  • lloydrt
    lloydrt Posts: 1,121 Member
    you may want to eat 5 to 6 times aday, as opposed to only 3 times a day.......Maybe make your 3 meals a bit smaller, and then stretch out the the rest

    If you cant handle it, eat cucumbers.........weird, I know, but I cut up a cucumber , put some black pepper with tons of red apple cider vinegar and go to town on em

    When I used to be starving more so, I d only eat fruits and vegetables , I figured Id rather eat plenty of fresh fruit or some brocolli and cucumbers instead of a Hershey bar, or candy, or white pasta
    i

    If you have to eat, try fresh fruit.........it took the craving away, and its good for your body

    also, DONT WAIT TILL YOU GET HUNGRY TO EAT

    Eat before you get hunry, because you know what you will do if you go to the dinner table starving, dont you?

    You will pig out and then you will feel worse..................Good Luck, Lloyd
  • jamie1888
    jamie1888 Posts: 1,704 Member
    Oh, but to answer your questions, "what do you do"?

    I LOVE to eat! So for me, it helped (especially in the beginning) to see a lot of food at my meals. In order to do that and not exceed my calories, I packed in the veggies. Roast them, steam them, grill them; however you like to eat them. And have a big pile of veggies with lunch and dinner. I don't think anybody has ever gotten fat by eating too many veggies! :bigsmile:
  • brockly25
    brockly25 Posts: 150
    what i do is drink water and go for a bike ride. but yeah i know that dont fix the problem :) eat a sweet fruit that wil fake your mind of what you realy want ... so drink the water tell you cant drink any more eat a sweet fruit to make your mind think you got want you wanted and take a walk or a bike ride... need to get out and get away from it all ..... if your stuck at work ... get those 100 calorie snacks and have that after you drank all the water you can so after the snack you wil fill full :) i hope that helps :) and make friends here so you can talk to them and see what your friends eat and have someone to talk to :) i'm all wasy on here so if you need to talk :)
  • JillTwiss
    JillTwiss Posts: 139 Member
    I have found my meals are more satisfying now and I think part of the reason is that I put all of my food on a plate. I am not good with portion sizes, so I'm eating a lot of WW Smart Ones, Lean Cuisine, etc. Only I don't eat them in their little plastic tray. I put them on a plate. To fill the plate up so that I think I'm eating more and I don't feel deprived, I will put a TON of veggies or salad with fat-free Italian dressing (the only fat-free dressing I like) on the other half. I also found that if I have more of a variety of food items, it's better and I also try to make myself eat slowly. I am tasting my food now, rather than just eating to eat, which is what I always did before.
    My problem times are at work, so in my cubicle, I have a ton of 100-calorie packs, fat-free pudding snack packs, etc. Work is when I crave the sweet stuff, so a chocolate fat-free pudding usually curbs that craving.
  • sgp329
    sgp329 Posts: 184
    What works for me is drinking water all the time. Also, I take mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks to work. Usually they are fruit of some kind, but occassionally I will have a crunchy granola bar (they are 200 calories/pack though so I only have these on my zumba days).

    By always having my snacks at my desk, I eat them whether I am hungry or not, to get the calories in. I am having a bit of trouble sometimes with getting enough calories. The last thing I want to do is to kill my metabolism by allowing my body to think it's starving and therefore not lose weight.

    Drinking water combined with a healthier way of feeding myself has given me tons of energy. I feel so good! Also, my skin seems to glow. I used to get so tired sitting at my desk that I could barely stay awake and in the mornings have to force myself to get out of bed. No more! I bound out of bed and stay pepped up all day long. I am loving this!

    Best of luck to you! Add me as a friend if you like. I am a cheerleader by birth and would be glad to cheer you on!
  • jesslaur75
    jesslaur75 Posts: 75 Member
    So, my husband is a chef. He's a fine dining chef who cooks with butter and bacon and fat and we have dinners with lots of courses and lots of wine. I have spent the last 5 years or so trying to figure out how to get back to being fit and happy and still incorporate my life with my husband and our love of food. I mean we want to open our own place, we write menus together and we need to know what the food trends are so we need to eat out.

    So, what I did was learn about flavors. What are my favorite flavors? I also don't deny myself things. I just eat a LOT less. I used to call myself a flavor *kitten*, because it wasn't necessarily about putting things in my mouth or filling my belly, it was more about how delicious things were and I wanted more and more. So, I really started paying attention to my stomach and how full I really felt while I was eating. I also started eating more fresh food and learned more and more about coaxing flavors out of the food so I'm more satisfied by eating less.

    The other thing to remember is a lot of pre-prepared foods have a lot of preservatives in them that isn't good for your body and it confuses your digestive system. They also have a lot of salt in them that makes you thirsty which fools your body into thinking it's hungry. It's also a lot more expensive to eat pre-prepared food.

    So far I have lost 20 pounds in about 2 months eating this way, although I just found this site.

    My kitchen bible that has really helped me learn great flavor combinations is called Culinary Artistry and it's not a cookbook. It just tells what goes with just about anything you might have in your kitchen so you can learn to be fearless when you're trying something new.

    http://www.amazon.com/Culinary-Artistry-Andrew-Dornenburg/dp/0471287857#reader_0471287857

    I hope this helps. :)

    Jess
  • sassiebritches
    sassiebritches Posts: 1,861 Member
    I eat low carb.......now that I do, I am rarely hungry and when I am I just eat.....if you notice my diary, I am often under or at cals and I am still losing........I tried the low cal low fat way most people here eat and I found the same troubles you are talking about......just takes getting used to eating this way..

    Good luck!
  • LittleSpy
    LittleSpy Posts: 6,754 Member
    I eat when I'm hungry.

    I've been at this for over a year now (about 53 weeks so far). I've lost (at least) 78.4 pounds. It took a long time for me to get to the point I am now but I've found a lifestyle that works for me and will work for the rest of my life and it's all pretty easy and habitual for me now. It wasn't like that in the beginning. I had to tweak my diet, I had to learn how my body responds to food. I learned that if I eat significantly more protein and fiber than MFP automatically recommends, I can easily make it through the day without being hungry at all between meals & snacks.

    But if I've eaten all my calories for the day and I don't feel like exercising to burn more to keep my calorie deficit and I'm super hungry, I eat something healthy. Who cares if I lessen my calorie deficit a little? I'm not going to torture myself to lose weight, that's a surefire recipe for failure.

    So, become familiar with your body and pay attention to how you feel. Increase your protein intake and see if that helps. Increase your fiber intake and see if that helps. Just keep tweaking and adjusting until you come up with a plan you're confident you can continue for the rest of your file. :smile:
  • jesslaur75
    jesslaur75 Posts: 75 Member
    But if I've eaten all my calories for the day and I don't feel like exercising to burn more to keep my calorie deficit and I'm super hungry, I eat something healthy. Who cares if I lessen my calorie deficit a little? I'm not going to torture myself to lose weight, that's a surefire recipe for failure.

    I completely agree. I do exactly that too. This shouldn't be about denial. It should be about finding a balance you can live with for the rest of your life.
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