No will power. Suggestions??

Fiber will help fill you up. Try eating more whole foods, less processed snack stuff.

Sounds like u arent eating right. What did u have for breakfast? Your stomach wouldnt be growling already if u were properly fueled.

Have you tried starting your day with Shakeology. It is very nutritious and has helped curb my appetite. I have a chocolate addiction and it does a pretty good job at satisfying my desire for chocolate. It is a little expensive, but give it a try.

The best time to eat is when your not hungry. Grab a banana or an Apple in the morning. Gives you sugar for energy to get through the morning and eat foods with "complex carbs" foods that give you a fuller feeling... fiber. Oats. Nuts. Ect. Stay strong!!!!! You can do this!!! Think thin!!!! Keep a picture of a super model or someone sexy in which you love their body and pin it up somewhere where it forces to look at it every day. Will motivate you a little more I think.

My will power sucks too. Ha! Here is how I helped overcome my food cravings.
I portioned out snacks every night for work and play the next day. I know about 9 am I get hungry so I bring an apple or banana to work to get that sweet fix but not breaking my day. Then, after I eat lunch, I know at about 2 or 3 pm I really want chocolate! I bring a chocolate granola bar or a few chocolate covered pretzels to satisfy my chocolate craving. I also recently tried Fiber One 90 calorie chocolate brownies... they were pretty good and good if you need more fiber in your diet!

I definitely have those days when I think about food constantly. My best suggestion is keep snacking on healthy stuff instead of grabbing a piece of cake. Check out www.fitnessmagazine.com. They have great articles and tools for this kind of stuff. It's like my Bible. Lol! Good luck!

I really hope I don't come off rude at all because I want to help, but I work 7:30a-6:30p Monday-Friday and I don't use those long hours as an excuse to not work out or make bad food decisions. I work out right when I get home, before dinner, so I make sure I have a really good snack around 4pm to power me through my workout. I guess my routine is so established that I don't even think about skipping, unless I'm sick or there's something else I have to do right after work. As for eating at work, I only eat what I bring, nothing else. I pack bfast, lunch, and 2 snacks (morning and afternoon).

Food temptations...those are tough and they will always be there. It doesn't mean you should always deprive yourself, but you shouldn't always give in either. As long as most of your days of the week are good (making your net calorie goals) then you're doing fine. If you're going over your cals more often than not, try to cut back on the treats a little bit. I used to have a huge problem with donuts. I love them SO much, and I used to have 2 daily for breakfast. Now I'll get one every now and then when I REALLY want one. Maybe once a month or so. I would never be able to go through life without another donut!

You can do it!

I know it's hard. I struggle with the cravings every day. I was thinking about this earlier this week - why can I push myself to finish 13.1 miles in freezing cold weather but I can't seem to push myself away from M&M's that are sitting on my co-worker's desk? For me, I realized it's all about changing the way I think. Instead of I CAN'T have that cookie I'm trying to look at it as I WON'T have that cookie. I can have the cookie but then I'll feel down about myself all day and it will probably push me to want to eat more later. I won't have the cookie because I don't like how I feel when I give into my cravings. I won't have that cookie because it won't help me reach my ultimate goal of being fit and healthy. Or, I will have that cookie because I can afford the calories and I feel like having a treat today.

To me "can't" infers someone else is controlling what I do; "won't" means I am in control of what I do and when I do it. I've actually told people before who say "aww, come on....you can have just one" that yes, I can have one but I choose not to, thank you anyway. Most people don't know what to say to that so they just shut up and chew.

Good luck. I know that we can do this.

I feel your pain. I will turn 40 in May and believe you me, I have a sweet tooth the size of the Grand Canyon! BUT... At the end of the day for me it's all about goals and NOT wanting to be where I was back in JAN of this year. I agree with a lot of things people are saying here. Try finding healthy snacks that work for YOUR body. What works for me may not work for you. I have surfed around these forums and have found tid bits from different memebers and they have worked great!

I have been very faithful about following a ceratin diet and have stuck to it. Yes my body still wants what it wants but the cravings do get easier and I have been able to walk away from all the crap that made me come to this site in the first place. I weighed in this JAN at my heaviest I've ever been my whole life. 201lbs. That's not good at all for my body frame and especially not good being in the Military. I am now down to 187 and have made some serious lifestyle changes in order for me to maintain all the hard work that I've done.

I eat: Steel Cut Oats, Cottage Cheese with fresh fruit on the top, low fat granola, COSTCO has these GREAT steak strips that are thick cuts of beef jerky that have great protien in them which keep me full if I want to snack on something. Kiwi fruit works awesome in satisfying my cravings as well. Again, you have to find what works for you.

I am all about TOUGH LOVE too! Will power is just that... If you have the strength to make it through an extra set at the gym or run an extra mile out on the road, then you should apply that to your cravings. You can't let all your hard work go down the tubes over Little Debbie snack cakes and other junk. Also at the end of the day you are only hurting one person, YOURSELF.

Deep dpwn inside you know you are better than that! Deep down inside you have what it takes to crush the cravings and keep the boat on course.

Dig deep, do your research, never be afraid of asking for help (Which you did and is very awesome!) and remember that it's ok to fall off the bike now and then and get scraped up... It's how you recover and bounce back that will determine if your boat stays on course or not. YOU GOT THIS!! STICK WITH IT AND OVERCOME!

Good luck and thanks to all the fellow Pals out there that posted to help out a sister in need.

Santos

From the looks of your profile picture, you don't have much to worry about. Also, most days you have quite a few calories left on the table that you could eat.

Go get some!

totally off the wall, but maybe you need more sleep?

you work a ton ( so do I ) and the weeks that I work more, I am constantly searching for food. Even if I am not hungry, i just want to snack.

Just my thoughts!