Always thinking about food

tatumlohse1
tatumlohse1 Posts: 19 Member
in Food and Nutrition
is it normal that I'm always thinking about food...? I always am planning my meals way ahead and I feel like I'm constantly craving sweets and baked good. I just can't stop thinking about food!! I'm not even hungry all of the time, but I know if I gave in to all those treats I could eat them all up no problem. I have been eating clean for a couple weeks (feel off the wagon on the weekends a few times) but other than that I think I'm doing pretty well. I'm new to myfitnesspal and I'm trying to lose those last 5-10 pounds... But it's hard when I feel like I could eat all of the time! Does anyone else have this problem?

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  • sixxpoint
    sixxpoint Posts: 3,529 Member
    Marry a chef, like me.
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    sixxpoint wrote: »
    Marry a chef, like me.

    hahahaa!
  • KerriGraham1025
    KerriGraham1025 Posts: 6 Member
    Yes, I share these issues with you. I obsess about food sometimes, it's clearly my addiction. It's certainly a tough one to break. The support on this site is very helpful!
  • DeterminedFee201426
    DeterminedFee201426 Posts: 859 Member
    tatumlohse1 wrote: »
    is it normal that I'm always thinking about food...? I always am planning my meals way ahead and I feel like I'm constantly craving sweets and baked good. I just can't stop thinking about food!! I'm not even hungry all of the time, but I know if I gave in to all those treats I could eat them all up no problem. I have been eating clean for a couple weeks (feel off the wagon on the weekends a few times) but other than that I think I'm doing pretty well. I'm new to myfitnesspal and I'm trying to lose those last 5-10 pounds... But it's hard when I feel like I could eat all of the time! Does anyone else have this problem?

    I use to have that it was very bad!until i found things to distract me more that i like to do like playing video games , drawing and taking walks:) these have helped me very much.. Sometimes i give into the food a day or 2 but most of the time iam distracted to even eat..
  • Shanel0916
    Shanel0916 Posts: 586 Member
    I totally understand I could all day long probably would if it weren't for my job. I constantly have to keep busy on weekends or find something else to put my mind on.
  • megmoore1991
    megmoore1991 Posts: 5 Member
    I have the same issue. What I find kind of helps is chewing mint gum kind of prevents me from fixation on food. Mint kind of ruins other foods
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    I obsess about food when I start restricting or cutting things out.

    If you're planning your meals/days ahead, why not plan a treat or two into your day?
  • mamasmaltz3
    mamasmaltz3 Posts: 1,111 Member
    Ninkyou wrote: »
    I obsess about food when I start restricting or cutting things out.

    If you're planning your meals/days ahead, why not plan a treat or two into your day?



    Agree with this post. You could be obsessing over food because your body needs more calories.
  • tatumlohse1
    tatumlohse1 Posts: 19 Member
    Thank you all for the replies! You guys are all so helpful.
  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    I love food and my husband cooks delicious dinners. I think about yummy food all the time. I even look forward to my snacks of snap peas and hummus. All food is delicious and I want it all, all the time. I struggle but I just try to eat smaller portions and continue going to the gym. Also, alcohol.
  • DoreenaV1975
    DoreenaV1975 Posts: 567 Member
    Ninkyou wrote: »
    I obsess about food when I start restricting or cutting things out.

    If you're planning your meals/days ahead, why not plan a treat or two into your day?

    During the weekdays I plan my whole days worth of meals in advance, the night before, that way I know where I can fit in my "treats" . Funny thing is there are times I don't eat everything I log (just sometimes too busy or not hungry) and I wind up having to delete them: this makes room for others things I may decide I want later or if I still am not very hungry just gives me a bigger calorie deficit!
    Today is a perfect example.
    My husband told me yesterday he wanted to go to a baseball game tonight.
    It's 50cent hot dog night (every Friday is) and I always get 2 hot dogs and 1 large diet soda.
    Knowing this, I plugged that info into my log under "dinner". From there I just adjusted the rest of my day's
    food/calories to allow me to still get my hot dogs and yet still remain under calories!
    Also I am about to delete my afternoon snack info because although it's time for my afternoon snack, I'm not even hungry!

    So maybe try pre-planning.
    You may find that if you allow yourself "treats" you don't want them as much or aren't as hungry in general.


    Good luck!


  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I always think about food. I just used to eat it instead. I guess this is better.
  • errollmaclean
    errollmaclean Posts: 562 Member
    I did the same thing when I tried eating 6 small meals throughout the day. I was always hungry. I switched to 4 and it worked a lot better for me. Also agree with pre-logging and fitting in treats when you can. It just makes it more sustainable and if you fit treats in you avoid binging when you fall off the wagon.
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    Try to eat satiating foods like cooked spinach, chard, kale and eat onions or other vegetables with meat or eggs.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    I grew up in poverty. So yeah I think about food a lot. And I get really obsessive if I try to give up eating foods I enjoy. Some small piece of my brain starts worrying about running out of food. I keep cookies and ice cream and chocolate on hand and I allow myself some of that every day. Because of this I have not yet had any binges(loss of control) in the past 61 days I have been using MFP. No cheat meals or cheat days either. I had 1100 calories worth of pizza a few nights ago for dinner. Wasn't a cheat though. It fit in my calories and I still lost another half pound since then. :)
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  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    Me too. I use my mental obsession to plan out my week of deliciousness, which assures that all of my whims fit into my calories.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,535 Member
    I love food. I could marry it.
  • Carol_
    Carol_ Posts: 469 Member
    ..and sometimes it is just in the nature of ( can't say dieting on here ...lol) ... being hungry from cutting calories.
  • GiGiBeans
    GiGiBeans Posts: 1,062 Member
    sixxpoint wrote: »
    Marry a chef, like me.

    My first husband was a chef and somehow I did all the cooking, except for large holiday gatherings.

    I think about food all the time. Often dream about it too. I once frantically searched a dream kitchen for something low carb to eat and the only thing I could find was two lousy cucumber slices. I ate them.

  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    former restaurant owner...so yes..i confess.
    always think about food and recipes.
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  • sixxpoint
    sixxpoint Posts: 3,529 Member
    edited May 2015
    GiGiBeans wrote: »
    sixxpoint wrote: »
    Marry a chef, like me.

    My first husband was a chef and somehow I did all the cooking, except for large holiday gatherings.

    I think about food all the time. Often dream about it too. I once frantically searched a dream kitchen for something low carb to eat and the only thing I could find was two lousy cucumber slices. I ate them.

    What can I say... sometimes we go home and after all that cooking and we are so tired that we resort to frozen pizza and leftovers :)

    Not always, but sometimes. We are human, too!
  • shaumom
    shaumom Posts: 1,003 Member
    tatumlohse1 wrote: »
    is it normal that I'm always thinking about food... I feel like I'm constantly craving sweets and baked good... I'm not even hungry all of the time...


    So, taking all that into account? if eating less has involved eating less processed foods (which means less sugar) or eating less sugar in general? It could involve an actual physical reaction to less sugar (There's a few different studies on this, actually - here's one, involving intermittent eating 'binges' of high sugar, and the physical effects in animal studies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15987666 ).

    Basically, in some folks, there's a physical withdrawal response to decreasing sugar, rather like the withdrawal when you stop opioids. Sugar and drugs like morphine seems to involve some of the same receptors, as I understand it. Sucrose is actually used to help with pain in preemies, and when people are going through withdrawal from opioids, increased sugar intake actually helps, for that reason.

    It seems to happen to me, too. When I drop sugar, I would think of it constantly, DREAM about it, it was awful. Only way I got it to stop was to drop all added sugar, cold turkey. Took about 2-3 weeks, and then the urge went away. But any time I started eating sugar again, I'd have to go through the whole 'withdrawal' process all over again if I wanted to stop. :-/

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