How to stop over eating
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Anonymous
| I’m having a difficult time lowering my calorie count and making healthy food choices. I know what to what to eat, how much of it to eat, and when to eat it. I plan out daily meals. I just never follow them. The day gets busy or I feel stressed, and I’m eating whatever looks good. Today was cookies. Yesterday was donuts. I’m trying to figure out a way to just stick with my daily plan. |
Anonymous
| I had to stop having any snacks in my house except fruit and cut up veggies. If you didn't have cookies or donuts available, you wouldn't eat them. Also I have a bowl like this: https://www.amazon.com/Portion-Control-Cereal-Porcelain-Healthy/dp/B08BBQG992/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FR4TSC30LREI&keywords=cereal%2Bbowls%2Bwith%2Bmeasurements&qid=1678338362&sprefix=cereal%2Bbowls%2Bmeasure%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-1&th=1 |
Anonymous
| I realized I was failing because I was eating low-non fat foods. My body was literally screaming for more fat and sending me into binges. Incorporating avocado into my breakfast and full fat yogurt into my lunches have been life changing in terms of Will power and food cravings. |
Anonymous
NP. Work is the killer for me. Someone always brings in treats, and I have to walk past them to get to my office, so it’s not even like I can just avoid the breakroom. |
Anonymous
| I never got a handle on this until I started semaglutide, and now I can plan what I want to eat and then execute it pretty easily. I obviously don’t know if you qualify for it. |
Anonymous
Make yourself walk on by! |
Anonymous
Just based on what you wrote, one thing you might try is reducing/eliminating sugar. Eating cookies and donuts = huge amounts of calories with no nutritional value and not filing. Do not eat any of it! It just causes you to eat more. Decide that you are not going to eat anything with that level of added sugar (naturally occurring sugar is fine, like in fruit) and stick to your decision. You want the healthy lifestyle more than you want cookies and donuts, so make it happen for yourself. You can do it! |
Anonymous
This! I was eating a lot of "diet" foods because I was conditioned in the 90s to eat that. Once I trained myself to eat real foods and avoid the trap of boxed low-cal crap it because much easier (tho listen, never easy). |
Anonymous
Same with me. Gaining weight coincided with going back to office. Jars of candy and people bring things in because they don’t want them in their house. I can’t resist. |
Anonymous
| Manage your stress. |
Anonymous
| Fill up on veggies/protein/some fruit. |
Anonymous
| use smaller plates and bowls. |
Anonymous
| I am the opposite, doing much better at work, where I don't want anyone to see me eating anything not healthy. But when I am in the house alone? I chow down! And there's not even anything that bad in the house, but those dried mangos (no sugar added) are fantastic, and the cereal my tweens eat is really good with added almonds for crunch, and there's always an apple with peanut butter for that sweet and salty flavor. All snacks which wouldn't be so bad, but when I eat all of that inbetween lunch and dinner, just because I can, it's not pretty |
Anonymous
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Some good advice here.
Make sure you don't get hungry by eating enough GOOD food - veggies, fruit, protein, fat. If you are hungry that cookie is going to be irresistable. But if you have a banana and almond butter instead, you'll feel better. |
Anonymous
Oh, I have a twin! I also don't know how to stop the constant snacking on healthy foods when WFH. So easy to not eat at the office. |