I cant stop eating....

I chew a lot of gum now. I find that having something in my mouth prevents me from running to the kitchen to satisfy an emotional craving.

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I'd like to make a couple of suggestions...do you mind...

When I get to that point...and I do...especially during TOM (sorry guys), these are the tricks that I use. They work for me, maybe they will work for you:

1. I eat fire,:devil: what I mean by that, I stir fry chicken, fresh spinach and tomatoes with chilies. I get the spiciest hot sauce on the market (not Tabasco but I bet that would work) and I dip toasted Flax-seed Lavish bread it in. Now not everyone can do this...but if you are like me and you can eat that type of thing..it works...believe me. It stops the bingers....

2. I eat loads of garlic. If you cannot handle the fire...stir fry a bag of pre-cut coleslaw in oil olive with as much garlic as you can stand. There's something about that that kills my appetite. I smell like a Korean market (not that there's anything wrong with that, as I love Korean food) when I am sweating it out at the gym the next day, but that's not my problem, that's the problem of the person next to me on the tread mill. :laugh:

3. Which brings me to the third trick. I eat cabbage. Loads of it. It kills my appetite. I think that this has been posted before.

4. I get the darkest darn chocolate on the market. My poison is Lindt 85% coco or LIndt Chili Chocolate (I think that this is around 70% coco). I eat 4-8 squares...Hey better than over eating. My justification is that dark chocolate is pretty good for you.

5. Next, flax seed bread expands in your stomach. I make this stuff at home. There's a couple of brands you can get at the market. They are spendy...and I know why, the ingredients are very expensive. I make this stuff at home and it's around $4 a loaf, HOME MADE....:noway:

6. EAS Whey Shakes with no-sugar-added Almond milk will definitely kill my desire to eat.

7. Some people say apples, but for me this doesn't work. Once I eat one apple, I want to eat 10. :grumble:

8. Green vegetables will do it too. But I already said that with the spinach thing...but this means celery and broccoli, too.

9. I have 15 stairs up to the front of my house. I know why no one was really interested in purchasing this house when we bought it...:ohwell: . Too bad Trader Joe's doesn't deliver. I spend 10 minutes running up and down the stairs. Super intense cardio kills my desire to eat.

10. Surprisingly cooking in coconut oil seems to be working for me, too.

11. Some people say drinking loads of water does that for them. NOT ME!

12. I drink coffee...Loads of it. NO ONE will ever take that away from me. :grumble:

13. I drink iced coffee with cream or no-sugar-added almond milk and add sugar free vanilla syrup. That works and it's super yummy...like melted ice cream.:drinker:

14. If you can afford the calories and/or the carbs/fat...drink 4 oz of whole milk. That coats your stomach.

Anyone have any other ideas?