I am my own victim and I hate it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps therapy? Good that it isn’t junk, but agree you do need to limit portions for high calorie items. Tell yourself, you will have 3 and only 3 dates for dessert. Put them away and do not go back for more. Drink a cup of water or hot tea. If you literally cannot do this, I think you cross the line from normal cravings to binge or compulsive eating. But there are meds for this! Plus therapy.

As do the vast majority of Americans apparently.

I don’t think so. The vast majority of overweight Americans make conscious decisions to buy and eat junk food and they don’t really care to change. They have no qualms about getting frequent takeout and sticking their Costco carts with a pallet of croissants and giant boxes of taquitos. OP doesn’t even buy junk food and in binging on dates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day I decide to eat well. I almost never can go the whole day. I self-sabotage constantly. I wish I didn't have to buy food, cook it and think about it. It doesn't have to be junk either. I just gorged on dates, I can gorge on cheese...anything.

I'm 55 and have been overweight/obese my entire life. I have lost 50 pounds 3 times and 80 pounds once. Obviously regained...

I am now on a GLP-1 med, and it's like a miracle drug. There is definitely a hormonal deficiency in some of us that sabotages our ability to regulate food intake. You may not need this drug. I hope I don't need it for life. But increasing the GLP-1 hormone helps curb appetite and cravings and just thinking about food all day. There's lots of science there. I've always thought of it as self-control (or lack of) as well. But if something in your body is working AGAINST that self control, it's not really sabotage so much as a true underlying medical issue.

There "are" natural ways to increase GLP-1, though. The typical super healthy diet. High omega 3s, high fiber, high lean protein. And the microbiome matters, too. Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are two probiotics that help. I've changed how I eat dramatically. Very heavy on protein and water now. I need to get better about fiber. I also take a probiotic called Seed. And finally, I highly recommend speaking to a registered dietitian. The ones at Nourish are great and covered by most insurance. Loading on protein in the morning and as a mid-morning snack have been game changers for me as I wean myself off the GLP-1 med. That early-in-the-day protein helps curb cravings and food noise (constantly thinking about the next snack or meal). Before GLP-1 and the dietitian consult, I was eating maybe 30 grams of protein a day. I now eat 120 grams.

For example, snacking on carrots and celery felt satisfying to me, in the moment. I actually love all veggies. But they didn't stop the constant thoughts of food and didn't help reduce my caving into all the cookies, cake, and doughnuts at work. Protein, though, does. My midmorning snack is now a hard boiled egg, an Oikos protein drink, and Mott's apple slices. Or Chobani plain yogurt with vanilla protein powder, premeasured granola, and raspberries. I can much more easily bypass the temptations.

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-022-03695-y#:~:text=Third%2C%20probiotics%20transform%20primary%20bile,%2D1%20production%20%5B21%5D.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day I decide to eat well. I almost never can go the whole day. I self-sabotage constantly. I wish I didn't have to buy food, cook it and think about it. It doesn't have to be junk either. I just gorged on dates, I can gorge on cheese...anything.

You sound like you have a huge eating disorder.