i love to eat.the problem is is that i dont know when to stop. i find myself sneaking food. ill say im going to the dog park but ill go through a drive thru then come home and eat with the rest of the family. i think of food all day and night. it rules my life and im so sick of it. ive tried every diet out ther and im sick of that too.
is anybody out there
I’m with you! I hate/love food. I find myself lying about it as well. I make sure to throw away everything before I get home and then go brush my teeth so nobody smells the fastfood. Sometimes I go out in the middle of the night to the places that are open. It is so addicting. I want to be addicted to something good…something healthy. Well sometimes I am. It is so on and off. I love to run. I mean LOVE to run. It is a wonderful kind of pain sort of like food…except healthier. However, when things are going bad I find myself going back to the unhealthy habbits (smoking, drinking,stuff my face). I hate addictions. I hate not feeling “normal” or in control of myself. You are not alone. I am new at supporting other sorry if this doesn’t help I just wanted you to know someone read what you wrote and someone cares! Hope you have a good night.
You are definitely not alone, so many people have problems with food. In almost all cases, the thing that is driving you to eat is your emotions. It's much easier to cover your feelings up with food and not feel your feelings.
However, the thing that works well for me is to force myself to feel my feelings. I create a meal plan and stick to it no matter what. When I find myself wanting to eat between my planned meals, I don't let myself eat - Instead I force myself to FEEL my feelings, no matter how awful or out of control they are.
It took a while to gain enough control to really stick to my meal plans. But now that I do, I have so much awareness of the emotions that were driving me to be obessesed with food and out of control.
Just don't give up trying, ever!! You can get it under control. I know from personal experience.
sounds like you have it under control. you must have great willpower. i feel like im doing this all by myself thats the hard part. im gonna try a meal plan and try to keep myself busy in between meals. thanks so much for your support and please keep in touch with me. take care
Oh I am so sorry you feel all alone, I am here for you and so are all of the others on this site. Part if it is willpower with me, but most of it is years of experience and the determination to never give up, ever. I am 35 now and I developed an eating disorder when I was 15. It turned into something called nocturnal eating syndrome when I was 16 where I would binge all night in my sleep. My weight ballooned and I became dysfunctional from lack of sleep. Then I started binging all day as well and I became suicidal. I became involved in the Fitness Industry professionally and it saved my life. I learned how to eat healthy during the day and kept no food in my house at night. When I was in my late 20s I had learned how to stop binging but it tool years of relapse and self forgiveness for me to stop. I still relapse sometimes but not often.
What I learned is that if I am truly eating healthy food and still want to binge, it means that my emotions are getting stuffed down and they want to force their way out. So they do it in the only way that I will listen to, by binge eating. I finally learned that it is a lot easier to walk around the block, chew about 5 pieces of gum and truly listen to and honor my emotions. Any time I feel like taking "one bite" of something when I know I am not hungry, that is a trigger. Instead of that bite, I listen to and honor my feeling, no matter how much it hurts.
So it's not really willpower at all. It's patience and the ability to listen to your feelings combined with determination and self love no matter how many times you relapse.
And once you conquer this, anything else in life will be simple. Because there is no illness more powerful than an eating disorder, and nothing more empowering than beating one.
You can do it, I believe in you.
Thank you for sharing your story. your words are very powerful. I truly believe one day this too shall pass, and my life will be different. I wont be obsessed with food anymore, and will be able to live a normal healthy life.