I can't stop eating

[NGC2017]

I can't stop effin' eating. I don't even know why I do sometimes. I don't really enjoy the taste of sweet stuff anymore either but it doesn't stop me. I binge on sweet and savoury.

I'm not obese. I am 5ft 6 and 9 and a half stone but my eating is so out of control its making me feel shit!!! Like really miserable.
Over the last year I have gained about 10lbs. Some of the weight I needed to gain but my concern is if I continue the way I am eating things will get worse.
I've noticed my body shape is changing, I am more wobbly, I have overhang and a gut I have never had before. My clothes are tight so I am aware I have gained. And I know I am totally to blame.

I really don't know what to do anymore. I don't particularly care about the number of the scales it's the way I feel about myself when I am gorging thousands of calories. If I could bring that under control I'd feel much happier.

Any advice please x

[Italiangreyhound]

Hi, firstly ate you sure you are obese? You do not sound very heavy.

Secondly, can You work out what is going on in yoir life that might be mskong the over eating problem worse?

Coukd you try eating healthier food?

I genuinely am quite big but you don't sound very big at all, maybe just a bit unfit.

What's your work/home life situation? K once had a job where all ate pit of boredom!

Good luck.

[athousandsplendidsuns]

Try reading this: Eating Less: Say Goodbye to Overeating by Gilliam Riley. Addresses exactly what you are describing I think! Have only had it from the library a few days so not read it all yet. Good luck!

[Italiangreyhound]

Gilliam Riley, I think I have seen some of her website.

[Milliy]

Italiangreyhound OP said she knows she is not obese and needed to gain some weight but cant stop eating. You are right regarding what may be going on in her life though. OP, what is going on ? It sounds like you could be eating your feelings rather than sorting them out.

[Italiangreyhound]

Thanks Milliy I had misread that.

Apologies @NGC2017 I totally got the wrong end of the stick.

[Milliy]

[NGC2017]

Thanks all. I will defo have to check that book out.
I suffer with anxiety bad. I worry about everything. I can't say for definite that I tend to eat when I have something on my mind but it is a possibility.
I suffered with eating disorders when I was younger. Anorexia and then binge eating. I don't eat the best as in regularly throughout the day. I tend to go until around 3.30pm with nothing, then start picking. After my DS goes to bed I am fine. And then all of a sudden I can't get food out my head.