Do you obsess over food?

Also, trips to the supermarket are a nightmare. If all I need to buy is lunch and dinner, I can spend up to an hour going down every aisle reading every label and end up buying like two items. I always need someone to come with me to snap me out of obsessing over what I can and can't eat. Fabulous.

Switching to an IF style of eating has REALLY helped with this for me.

I'm not familiar with this, what's the IF style?

IF is Intermittent Fasting- there are several styles of doing it, but the two main ones I've seen practiced by MFP people are the Eat Stop Eat method, where you do a 24 hour fast one or two times a week and eat and eat higher calories the rest of the time, And leangains method in which you have an eating window of time everyday- I only eat from noon to 8pm every day, and then I am in a fasted state after dinner until noon the next day. I want to stress that you eat the same number of calories doing IF as you would in a traditional eating pattern...before people tell me about how unhealthy fasting is. There is a LOT of information on the boards here and a group for IF members, if you search on the term or look in to the group. I am fairly new to IF, but there are a lot of people more knowledgeable than I that have been practicing it for a long time. Feel free to friend me or PM me if you want any more specific information.

I sometimes do this. With my weird work sechdule and sleeping habits I don't always have time in the day to eat 3 meals a day. Usually I eat 2x but there are times where I just eat once a day. With me I found sleep was important above all else. I always make sure I get plenty of sleep 7 hrs. minimum. In the past when I didn't sleep well I would be tired all the time. Working nights I'd be constantly snacking and grazing to keep myself awake. Exercise was completely out of the question since I was too tired to even attempt it.

I had been about to say, nooooooo this is not normal, and suggest drinking more water or finding small snacks to eat every couple of hours or so. Then I read on and saw maybe I'm not normal! When I first started it was a challenge, but now it just feels like life and I'm really not concerned about food until it's time for me to eat a meal. When I do get hungry, I eat a snack. I don't obsess over staying within my cals/day; my thoughts are it's actually good to go over by a couple hundred calories now and again! That said, it is a rare occasion when I do - I'm typically under.

I remember one other point in my life when I had dieted and there came a point when my relationship with food shifted - it was no longer my friend but just a fuel. I didn't even think about it during the day, or lust over thoughts of what sounded sooo good. Instead it was a secondary part of life, an 'oh yeah, time to refuel'. It was so freeing!! I felt like a new person and wondered if that was how 'normal' people lived everyday! Unfortunately, my dysfunctional love affair returned and here I am. I'm praying for the day that mind-shift returns. It will. It was my love affair with food that got me here in the first place.

Yep...totally obsessed with food!

I was like that at first. The first 2 weeks all i could think about was candy and all the fast food places in our building. It was crazy! I couldn't stop thinking about it.

I have gotten much better, but still do think about it on occasion.

I do this SOMETIMES...but I have found that if I keep myself busy/occupied with OTHER things, it doesn't happen NEARLY as much. Take today, for example, usually I have my snacks planned for the whole day and cannot WAIT to eat them...today I forgot to eat half of them because I was busy, and it's dinner time and I'm barely hungry...lol

Not really. I eat everything I want to, including junk food, in moderation. Since I'm not depriving myself, I'm less likely to obsess over it. I also do IF from time to time, and that has helped tremendously.

Yes
I watch the food Channel while on my Cross Trainer
Know thats weird:ohwell: