Can’t stop eating

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good luck, op! Sounds like you’re not eating enough in the beginning of the day so then your body craves quick calories and you dive into the sweets.

Start the day with a lot of protein. 2-3 Eggs cooked with 1-2 cups of vegetables and 1-2 teaspoons of oil is very filling. Pack a salad for lunch. Lots of fresh veggies and roasted sweet potatoes or chick peas which are healthy carbs. Then add proteins like smoked salmon, tuna, rotisserie chicken, air fried tofu, deli ham. Finish with a dressing you like but isn’t insanely high in calories. Trader Joe’s has some good ones in the salad aisle (refrigerated dressings). Pack 1/4 cup nuts + 1/4 cup raisins or chopped dates for your afternoon snack. Learn to like dark chocolate instead of milk as it leads to fewer binges. Find some teas you enjoy and make it a routine to have an afternoon hot tea with a little honey.

Planning ahead is SO key. This will be your key to figuring this out. Plan ahead to have the healthy foods at home and prepped. Make sure you have time to pack your lunch and snacks. Drink lots of water. You’ve got this

Yes yes yes. I pack my next-day lunch as soon as I get home from work around 4. I start cleaning the lunch dishes as I throw together next day lunch, put it in my (large) lunch carrier, and stick it in the fridge so I just grab it and go in the morning. I leave at 6:30am so the last thing I want is to have to prepare a bunch of food to get me through the day.

[Anonymous]

Try to eat a savory breakfast. Nothing sweet. Real fruit but not dried. And see if that fills you up.

[Anonymous]

Addiction runs in my family. My brother -- alcohol. Myself and my mother -- sugar. My dad-- salt. My sister -- all foods.

Addiction as in: we cannot stop. Not just some bad habits.

Recognize yours.

[Anonymous]

You really need to just purge all the triggers out of the house. No candy no cookies.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of us who suffer from disordered eating struggle with “all or nothing.” Yes, get rid of obvious cookie/candy sweets but don’t dive heavily into all health food. Eat substantial filling meals that include carbs- an egg salad sandwich on wheat bread is very satisfying when dinner is far off and your willpower is lagging.

[Anonymous]

Op, look up the KSafe. You could set it to open each morning. Pack the lunches, remove what's reasonable for the family for a later snack. Maybe you wouldn't need to make it using it obvious.

[Anonymous]

The only thing that worked for me was completely cutting out carbs. Best thing I have ever done! Lost weight, added muscle, sleep better, no huge energy swings. It's literally a fitness cheat code

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t have it in the house. Why do your kids need Oreos for their lunches?

I mean they are in K and 3rd, they take PBJ and a piece of fruit and 2 Oreos for lunch each day. I don’t want to deprive them of a normal age appropriate school lunch because their mother can’t control herself.

What are you training them to eat garbage like you?

You know it's wrong, let your OP, but you're still making excuses. Did your grandmother have 2 Oreos for lunch every day?

You sound like an addict who wants everyone to enjoy an appropriate amount of heroin each day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t have it in the house. Why do your kids need Oreos for their lunches?

I mean they are in K and 3rd, they take PBJ and a piece of fruit and 2 Oreos for lunch each day. I don’t want to deprive them of a normal age appropriate school lunch because their mother can’t control herself.

PB&J and a piece of fruit is an appropriate school lunch, minus the Oreos.

Normalizing daily consumption of UPFs in the form of sugar laden treats isn't a gift to your kids. Their bodies might be able to tolerate it in youth, but as they age it will be more and more of an issue. Instead of them struggling years from now to overcome a years long addiction to refined sugar laden treats, help them to establish clean eating habits now. Put two pieces of different fruits in the lunchbox - an apple and a mandarin orange, for instance. Lots of fiber attached to fructose which operates entirely differently in the body that the Oreo ingredients.

You may be right. The mindframe I’m coming from is, my own mother severely restricted treats growing up- she allowed 2 dessert items per week (so like, 2 Oreos for the week) and it made me insane for them. I’d eat sweets like crazy when I went to a friends house or at a party. The severe restriction of them made me think about them so much. I was always a thin child and a thin young adult so it wasn’t to help me lose weight it was just my own mothers strategy to teach healtny eating but it backfired

Seems like you were always addicted and mom was helping, but she didn't go far enough. She should have given you 0 junk.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t have it in the house. Why do your kids need Oreos for their lunches?

I mean they are in K and 3rd, they take PBJ and a piece of fruit and 2 Oreos for lunch each day. I don’t want to deprive them of a normal age appropriate school lunch because their mother can’t control herself.

PB&J and a piece of fruit is an appropriate school lunch, minus the Oreos.

Normalizing daily consumption of UPFs in the form of sugar laden treats isn't a gift to your kids. Their bodies might be able to tolerate it in youth, but as they age it will be more and more of an issue. Instead of them struggling years from now to overcome a years long addiction to refined sugar laden treats, help them to establish clean eating habits now. Put two pieces of different fruits in the lunchbox - an apple and a mandarin orange, for instance. Lots of fiber attached to fructose which operates entirely differently in the body that the Oreo ingredients.

You may be right. The mindframe I’m coming from is, my own mother severely restricted treats growing up- she allowed 2 dessert items per week (so like, 2 Oreos for the week) and it made me insane for them. I’d eat sweets like crazy when I went to a friends house or at a party. The severe restriction of them made me think about them so much. I was always a thin child and a thin young adult so it wasn’t to help me lose weight it was just my own mothers strategy to teach healtny eating but it backfired

Seems like you were always addicted and mom was helping, but she didn't go far enough. She should have given you 0 junk.

Can you read? “I’d eat sweets like crazy when I went to a friends house or a party”. Unless you’re homeschooling and your kid has no friends, they’re going to see a cupcake at some point and be offered one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t have it in the house. Why do your kids need Oreos for their lunches?

I mean they are in K and 3rd, they take PBJ and a piece of fruit and 2 Oreos for lunch each day. I don’t want to deprive them of a normal age appropriate school lunch because their mother can’t control herself.

What are you training them to eat garbage like you?

You know it's wrong, let your OP, but you're still making excuses. Did your grandmother have 2 Oreos for lunch every day?

You sound like an addict who wants everyone to enjoy an appropriate amount of heroin each day

This is so unfair to people who struggle with sugar addiction. You need to eat food to survive and sugar is in SO much food even when you think it isn’t. It’s like if you’re an alcoholic and 90% of beverages sold have alcohol in them, without advertising that fact. And to drink alcohol free drinks you have to spend way more money and read each label and never go to restaurants and not drink anything offered to you when you’re in public. And if you mess up, you crave it the rest of the day. Oh, and your other family members aren’t addicted so they buy whatever beverage is on sale and that’s what’s on the shelf in your house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please no flames. I can’t stop eating. I will be on a good diet until around 2pm and then I eat candy. It’s pathetic and I know this. Then I get depressed about my lack of will power and eat more of it. I’m tearful as I write this so please be gentle. What can I do???

The candy is leftover from Easter/ when it’s not in the house then I eat the Oreos that are for the kids lunches. Whatever is sweet, I will get. I’m so disgusted.

Do you eat healthy high volume nutritious protein containing meals, especially breakfast and lunch?

[Anonymous]

Sugar has been around since the beginning of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Addiction runs in my family. My brother -- alcohol. Myself and my mother -- sugar. My dad-- salt. My sister -- all foods.

Addiction as in: we cannot stop. Not just some bad habits.

Recognize yours.

This is exactly my family and their addictions as well (brother-alcoholic; mother and me - sugar; dad - salt) minus the other sister.

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Anonymous wrote:Such a judgmental group of B’s.

We all know sugar is bad for us, but Tempe all or nothing approach doesn’t work for many of us.

I have high blood sugar and type 2 runs in my family. I take metformin and it comes down. I’ll eat a damn cookie or two if I want.

I do need to exercise more to balance out the fact that I’m not highly restricting my diet.

You have diabetes and you’re eating cookies because you take medicine?? This makes zero sense. Diabetes can be completely controlled through diet. Stop eating sh*t; it’s killing you. It’s also making our medical care expensive. I feel bad for your kids because you don’t love yourself enough to stop killing yourself. Additionally, you will likely have type 3 diabetes, aka Alzheimer’s, which will place an additional burden on your family.

Get your sh*t together.

What? You are such ahole. I am prediabetic, 5’4 and a size 6. Wtf are you talking about? I’m a good person who realizes that dieting doesn’t work.