Sometimes I am hungry

I live alone and have weight problem. I often turn to food for emotional reasons. Now I face serious health problems, so my approach to food is attempting to change. Part of this attempted change is using MyFitnessPal again after dropping it three years ago.

Two days completed on my current journey and I have had some degree of success, however I ate more food on day two than I did on day one.

Day one, I was extremely motivated by my first visit with a psychologist. We spent all of our time discussing my current health issues and my current relationship with food and eating. I came home from that session and had complete control over how fast or slow I ate, how often I ate and how much I ate. I came in under my calorie goal easily.

Day two, I came under my calorie goal easily as well, however this is mostly because MyFitnessPal awarded me 353 extra calories in exchange for the 6,154 steps I took that day.

On day two, I ate too quickly at times, ate more calories than on day one, and ate more often than on day one. Despite all of that I came in under my exercise adjusted calorie goal. I am concerned that i am slipping back into having little or no control over my eating.

I have a motivational list hanging on my fridge door. One of the items on the list is a reminder to accept the fact that I might not always feel sated. Another item on the list reminds me that this is a life or death problem I am dealing with. Doing all the right things is much easier said than done.

I have a strategy of sucking on an Altoid whenever I have had enough food but still feel like eating. This strategy worked much better on day one than on day 2. I recognize my control has slipped a bit on day two. I was not completely out of control, but I was in control less often than on day one.

Please offer any insights, encouragement, similar stories, etc. I could use the support.