Can't stop eating! Please HELP!

Sheer willpower, and it sucks. But its a trade, eat all you want and be big or be hungry and skinny. Up to you.

TIP TO REDUCE WEIGHT
First turn your head to the right and then turn it to the left. Repeat this exercise everytime you are offered something to eat.


Its hard but its the only way XD discipline for the win!

Only you are in charge of what you put into your body. Stop making excuses...and PUT DOWN THE FORK.

You CAN stop eating all that crap. You have to WANT IT, like on a whole other level. You can do this! Think about how you will feel and how much healthier you will be for yourself & your family. I had to stop eating out, and if you're going out to eat to be social eat before you go and just get something small when you get there.

i go through this a lot too. its like, eating whatever we want re-addicts our bodies to food.
Keep drinking the water, make yourslef exercise. Give away or get rid of any unhealthy food. do some yoga, meditate, re-center yourself and re-focus on what is important to you and why you are wanting to get healthy. and KNOW, that just like when you break your routine of exercising, that it easily becomes part of the routine again when you start and keep at it for a day or two..the same too will happen with food. you only need a couple good days to reinforce that routine in your brain again, and basically detox your body. thats my $0.02.

if the leftovers are at your house toss them out now and just keep around what you know you can control for now. all is not lost, but learning how to see some foods as toxic and others as healthy may work for you. it's like understanding food on a different level, almost like medicine rather than anything else.

just a thought

YOU are going to have to force the issue for yourself. My recommendation is log EVERY SINGLE BITE you put in your mouth and look at it at the end of the day. That worked for me and I STOPPED eating crazy. Stop eating for FLAVOR, that is what I did and how come I am here losing now.. Now I have no problem turning away from things that I know will take away from my calorie allowance. If I want something, sure I may have a little...enough to get the taste and craving..for example a brownie, no more than a half of 1 square..and I am good. You have to make yourself stick to it. That is the only advice I can give you and I wish there was something else, but that is it girl, it is up to you. DO or DO NOT, there is not try. If I can do it, I know you can DO this.

I agree...unfortunately, it's down to sheer willpower. Only you can decide if it's worth it to you. Others can badger you, cajole you, humiliate you, yell at you, whatever...but it still comes down to a choice only YOU can make. We can all cheer you on and offer words of encouragement, but in the end, it comes down to you and you alone. We can't make you stop eating, and neither can the people around you. It's like a drug addict...those around them can remove the drugs, but if they don't want to stop, they'll find a way to get more drugs.

When you feel like all you want to do is eat, go for a walk instead. Put on some good music and take a good brisk walk. You'll feel better, and if you hurt while you walk, it will be a reminder of how much more of that you have to do if you continue to eat all the bad stuff. Eat something healthy. Are you allowing yourself some treats? If not, try that. Depriving yourself of everything you like will backfire. I use Skinny Cow ice cream bars as my treat. I've already planned for one for tonight when I get home from choir practice at church, but if I eat something not in the plan I've laid out for the day, I'll have to give up my Skinny Cow! Not wanting to miss out on that, so I will eat right the rest of the day so I can have it. You need to set up something like for yourself. Not all of us can eat 100% "clean", vegan, whatever. Find what works for you as a motivator.

Feel free to friend me on here if you want. I'm not one who thinks you have to be so strict that you can't ever have a treat. I'm also glad to listen to "venting"...I've had to do my share of it the last year!

I suggest that you start saying out loud, " that's enough", or "i'll pass on that" or "i won't eat any of that now, maybe later". The voice in your head is saying this, but you've gotten good at ignoring it. Let the sound of your voice be the back up for your willpower when just thinking it isn't enough.

Hi! I havedone the same thing.. I think I can have a cheat day than a week later I get real with myself when I feel bloated, gross and tierd. With practice and I mean lots of practice I have learned to ask myself before I cheat "Do I really want this? Do I want to feel like crap for a moment of pleasure?" I find more than not I won't cheat. It's a life style change.... Try to find something to keep your mind off those left overs. It's not easy, but bottom line is... How bad to you want to be skinny?
Good luck hun!

First of all....you are in the right place with MFP. And second, the fact that you are reaching out for help means you really want to find a way to do this.

I think most of us on this site have felt the way you do now. I KNOW I have and will again. It's an ongoing battle. I think of it like any other addiction. I can't think about days or weeks without eating my favorite foods. That's impossible for me. I have to take it a day, a meal, sometimes an hour at a time and just focus on the moment. Like....I won't have that piece of pie right now because I can have it later. I don't tell myself that I can't have it...I just tell myself I'm going to wait abit. Then, SOMETIMES you won't feel like eating it later, and sometimes you will. If I feel like eating it, I try to just have half of it. Or at least leave some little tiny piece left. Slowly (sometimes VERY slowly) you develop new habits. But its VERY hard...

TAke and care and good luck to you.,

You can do this.

You are not alone. :-)

I agree with the low carb.... It truely has helped me!

Drastic times call for drastic measures, right? So consider doing whatever it takes to change your behavior. For example ...

Carry water with you everywhere, and drink LOTS more than 8 glasses a day. Opinions here on MFP vary, but if you're anything at all like me -- I suspect you could double that every day without any harmful effects. Speaking just for myself, it REALLY cuts down on the hungries.

Put PostIt notes on your fridge and cupboards that say "Step AWAY from the refrigerator". Or something to that effect.

Give the leftovers away.

Take good stuff to your potlucks, and only eat that.

When friends come over, prepare and serve only good, healthy, fresh food.

I'm sure you can come up with a zillion other things. What it comes down to, though, is what you've already discovered: you have to change your behavior.

You know what you need to do ... or NOT do, as the case may be, right? So start thinking about it every single time you reach for something to eat. Are you REALLY hungry? If so, drink an 8 oz. glass of water and wait for half an hour or so. If you're still hungry then -- by all means, eat something. Just choose something healthy.

You can't change the last week, but you can DEFINITELY learn from it. Based on your post, you're not happy right now. So learn from that. Next time you want to eat something, remember how you're feeling right now, and ask yourself if it's worth feeling that way again. (It'll be a trick question, but it's one worth asking anyway.

Speaking just for me, being really conscious of WHY I want to eat has been almost as important as WHAT I eat. Just gotta get your head around it, know what I mean? You can change your behavior starting right this minute. So come on ... let's go do it. I know you can.

TIP TO REDUCE WEIGHT
First turn your head to the right and then turn it to the left. Repeat this exercise everytime you are offered something to eat.


Its hard but its the only way XD discipline for the win!

Haha!!! I LOVE this!! :laugh:

If it helps, right now I totally want to eat more goldfish with my soup.....but i'm quite sure that i've had enough, so i'm going to stop while thinking of you!