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Hi minibandit. Delighted you overcame your addiction by sheer willpower and determination and good old common sense. Lots of people cannot do that and trouble is that when they try to gain control it exacerbates the problem because control is such an emotional issue for them. Those who cannot gain control do need extra…

Hi mnorris0821. Food is lovely Food is great! Sweet foods are comforting. Food is one of life's most available pleasures. Food is a great distraction from the unpleasant things in life especially fear. Food is more readily available than ever before in increasingly tempting forms. Food is a substitute for love, a…

Onmyown70, you shouldn't really beat yourself up about this overeating. Do you think you are trying to stop yourself facing up to something deep down? The pleasure of eating is trying to numb the unpleasant feelings that you don't want to face. It is exactly the same as being an alcoholic just that the person is using food…

Do people find posting their MFP ticker helpful?

Dieting can cause eating disorders!!!! However it is not good to be overweight or obese. The thing to do is the get the weightloss thing into perspective. So often women especially make our size the most important thing and feel we are not acceptable unless we are a certain size/shape. 'Perfectionism' will cause binge…

It is definitely more difficult to lose weight when you are over 40 but with being older and wiser we should be able to do it gradually and realistically compared to when we were teenagers and more prone to crash diets and thinking we had to be thin to be loved. Myfitnesspal is very helpful and finding exercise you can…

Unfortunately that kind of eating you talk about is extremely common and started somewhere way back where you started to use food in the wrong way and it became a habit. I know because I did it/still do it but less so. Because food makes us feel good, gives us a sense of wellbeing.....when things aren't going well we…

Hi, I'm 49 and hoping to lose 2 stone to get me down to 10st4lb. But today my kids had lovely cool coke in the fridge and I bought some clotted cream for only 20p....so I had to make some delicious cherry scones to go with that!! I did only have half a scone...but so many calories. I am just such a picker. If I don't make…