cant stop eating

Y...E...S! Lol especially during TOM

Some days are worse than others for me, but the first thing you need to do is DO SOMETHING!! Don't do something passive (don't read, don't sit at the computer, don't watch tv/movies, don't sit around). Go out and distract yourself. Take a walk! Hang out with friends! Get a hobby that requires all of your attention and both hands. Most of the time when I can't seem to curb my munchies is when I'm bored or I'm waiting for the next thing on my schedule. I used to be in the habit of eating while watching TV (after getting home from school) or during a movie, and I've since broken myself of that habit. Sometimes I eat a meal while watching a show or movie, and I like to have a drink close by, but it's usually water or wine.

Hope that helps.

Once or twice, yeah. I have to physically remove myself from the kitchen. I usually refer to it as grazing. I'd grab something quick and ridiculously low cal, like a veggie or an orange or something, head off to another room and eat there.

Also a good plan. I like to keep cherries or apples on stock depending on the season. I try to cut up & prepare my fruits and veggies for easy access as soon as I get home from the store so I always have something good to snack on.

I read The Hunger Games, and in the book the narrator refers to "Hollow Days" when your tummy is like a bottomless pit and no matter what you eat, you don't get full! I've been there, and those days suck. However, lately I've realized I actually ENJOY feeling hungry. No, no, I'm not starving myself. I get my 1200 cal a day. But try thinking of hunger as a sign that you're not overeating. If you indulge your food cravings every time they hit, they'll come back stronger every time, kind of like when you give a dog a treat 5 times a day. Instead, eat three meals a day and one low cal snack in between each meal, and after a while your body will become used to an eating schedule and your random cravings will subside.
However, there will still be days when no matter what you eat, you stay hungry. Those are the days that you have to buckle down and find something to distract yourself - a walk, a trip to the mall, anything that doesn't involve food!

Every time you feel like eating something, down a whole bottle of water. Your body may be in need of hydration. And you are confusing it with hunger. Your body's at the point where it's shouting I need water and I don't care where I get it from! If even after a whole bottle of water you still feel hungry, eat something low in fat with high protein or fiber.

I've come to the conclusion that I get this "can't stop eating" thing when I've been cutting my calories too low for a while. Feeling a BIT hungry is OK - I tell myself that this is a "thin" feeling. If it's more than that it's usually cos your body is begging you for food.

It's a new theory to me - I grew up with a "diet" routinely being a 1000-calorie-a-day eating plan. I'd never heard of another way of doing things til more recently. But now I know that "creeping up on your body" and making a much less drastic cut in your intake is much easier to sustain over the longer period needed to lose a significant amount of weight.

Healthy lifestyle plans are less drastic than strict diets and succeed better, in my experience. I'd say that if you're desperate to eat everything you can get your teeth into, have a rethink as you won't be able to keep up such a strict diet for very long.

I've tried to look at your diary - it's not private, but it's not filled in either. You have 2440 calories allowed by MFP - are you eating anything like that?

I am always hungry, when I was younger I could eat all the time, but over the yrs I put so much weight on...now I am trying to lose it, but there are days when I just can't stop eating....I want more and more food...I hope this yr I will cut that habit out!

LOL being fully aware that I may get locked up or put in a straight jacket for this post, here goes...


I drink LOADS of water, and think of it as drowning the whinging "Hungries" who seem to be residing in my stomach :blushing:


Of course if it's a meal or snack time I eat, but if it's an hour before lunch and I'm freakin STARVING, then water it is. I have a very active imagination but this may be going too far for some. Works for me though!! :laugh: