Out of control eating

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lmarie

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After a recent weight gain of 10 lbs. I realized that the 20 lbs I originally wanted to lose turned into 30. My major problem is controlling my eating. I do aerobics about 4 days a week and pilates at least 2. Even though I'm exercising I still find myself constantly eating. Especially at times when i realize that I'm not even hungry I still eat. I would really love to get to my goal weight of 145 but know that's not going to happen if I keep eating. Anyone have any suggestions on controlling eating?
 
lmarie said:
After a recent weight gain of 10 lbs. I realized that the 20 lbs I originally wanted to lose turned into 30. My major problem is controlling my eating. I do aerobics about 4 days a week and pilates at least 2. Even though I'm exercising I still find myself constantly eating. Especially at times when i realize that I'm not even hungry I still eat. I would really love to get to my goal weight of 145 but know that's not going to happen if I keep eating. Anyone have any suggestions on controlling eating?
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My largest issue is portion size and out of control eating.
The only things that worked for me was to plan out everything and only take out what I planned to eat. It is stil not 100% infallable- I can always get more out- but I am so much more controlled then I was.
You need to want to do it also. No trick is more important than that.
 
Hi, I'm Brittany and I'm a food addict :).

For me, the best thing to control my eating was to get rid of all of the convenience foods and chips. No 90 calorie snacks, no delicious canned food, no cheese strings, no tv dinners, for me it was about getting rid of the convenience. The only things that I try and make readily available to myself is fruit that I cut up myself (and chicken breast, but I make sure to only have 1 a day because it's expensive to buy it boneless skinless). I found that I would eat less when there was less ready to eat foods because I didn't want to make as much of an effort, I started to eat healthier because the only convenience food was healthy food which even though I didn't like as much allowed me to stay lazy, and I found I made better choices when I had to make a conscious effort to prepare something for myself.

Good luck! Hope this helps a bit.
 
I just carry around a little journal and make myself write down EVERYTHING I eat and drink. Yes, everything. Including the calorie count. And then if I don't know how many calories were in something, I look it up online later in the evening when I have some time. Obviously this isn't a great way to count calories as it can be inaccurate, but I try really hard and I'm honest with myself about the portions.

This really helped me in the beginning because it made me realize just how much food I was eating. I hadn't been honest with myself about this in the past. It holds you accountable to yourself.

Also, this is going to sound very silly, but I'm a pretty lazy person. Sometimes, if I'm out or something, I can avoid eating because I know I'm going to have to look it up, figure out the portions (sometimes I even save the container a smoothie, etc came in so I can portion it out later), and write it down. It's not a lot of work but inconvenient if I have a lot of things to do.

I am by no means a weight loss expert but this little journal has been the key to the weight I have lost thus far.
 
I can only recommend the thing killer_queen said. Keeping a weight loss journal helps realizing how much we eat and how many calories we actually consume.

What helped me the most with binge eating and not being able to stop eating is cutting sugar out of my diet after reading the book "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty. I can only recommend this book.
 
I have the same problem, so what I say is: If you don't buy it, you can't eat it. Right? Make a good shopping list. Stuff yourself before you go to the store and stick to the list. Then when you're at home and have the munchies the only thing you can reach for is carrot sticks. Works for me!
 
I'm the same - my weight gain was rarely about hunger and more about boredom. I could quite happily sit at my desk all day and stuff my face full of chocolates and cakes and crisps.

Now, I bring in to work with me a handful of tupperware boxes with 'healthier' snacks - one has a hard boiled egg in it, one some cucumber, and another has some plain nuts. For my lunch I have a salad with no dressing, and I can sit and 'graze' on that for a good 3 hours. It seems to be working.

Melanie.
 
I find one trick that has helped me control my eating was not having a lot of food in the house and only shopping on the weekends. That way I have to force myself to stretch my food and not over eat.
 
I've been an out of control eater. One month I'd eat really little (500-600 cals) the next month I'd eat like a pig, I'd stuff my face almost every hour *uugh*
I havn't done that for 3 weeks and 2 days now ..go me!
 
I have this problem too...one of my friends taught me a trick that works, I just can't always remember to do it...

I always think I am STARVING - I get that feeling in my stomach like I am hungry, but if I think about it, there is no REASON I should be hungry so when I think I want to eat, I drink water first (many times you are actually thirsty and don't realize it)...if I still feel the need to eat, I grab 5 saltine crackers, then slug down more water...the crackers expand in your stomach and kill the hunger feeling...I am sure this is not the smartest way to do it, but it really does work.
 
I used to have this feeling of starving all the time. It ended when I cut sugar out of my diet. Cutting sugar out is surely not easy. You'll have to learn again what foods you like that are okay. You know what I mean? It will take some dedication, but the starvation feeling will be gone.
 
I wonder if there is some correlation between sugar consumption and the fact that some days I feel like my stomach might just digest my own stomach I'm so darn hungry. I mean...some days I'm not overly hungry even though I'm not eating much, yet today I felt like I was going to die of hunger and I've eaten more than normal (in response to said hunger).
 
AlexaCooper said:
I used to have this feeling of starving all the time. It ended when I cut sugar out of my diet.
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So true. We become so psychologically and physically addicted to sugary things that we're just ravenous for it if we don't get it regularly, even if we're not hungry. It takes time and a lot of will power to break that cycle and get it in control, for sure. I'm still struggling with it a lot.
 
It sure does take a lot of will power to stop eating sugar. Especially since it seems to be in everything. What helps me a lot with resisting it is thinking of sugar as a chemical instead of a food.
 
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