So overweight yet I can’t stop eating

The Noom app is entirely in line with this approach and avoids the cost and waiting lists for CBT. But I agree with your general view!

In a week?

I lost 3.5 stone by following the Noom app and have kept it off. It's changed my life and my habits, so I don't need to use the app anymore - unlike MJ and others,wjich you seem to need to take forever. I'd say best advice is just to commit to one thing at a time, stick with it, and don't be too hard on yourself when you mess up - just carry on trying to do better. Maybe start by greatly upping your water intake, and trying to have water insteadof snacks, and a glass of water before meals. It helps with feeling of fullness and with digestion.

I am the same as you but around 6 stone heavier. Wish I could try Mounjaro but just in too much debt to afford it.

I highly recommend the book intuitive eating as a great place to start with improving your relationship with food.

I was in your position exactly a week ago when I decided to change things I’ve now lost 8 pounds

What about joining your local gym and finding new recipes that are healthy but still yummy that you can experiment making at home? Do you have any kids? Would you consider trying mounjaro again? Or perhaps speaking to your GP about this would help as they be able to offer you a different type of support like a nutritionist that can help you with a meal plan and a complete overhaul of the habits that are bringing you down. Please don’t lose hope, you got this!

The best thing that helped my overeating was stopping eating refined sugar.

That was in September. I’ve never over eaten since then. After 45 years of it.

l might have the odd bit now and then, but l can leave bars of chocolate or biscuits alone. Before l would have eaten them all at once.

Sending you a much needed hug!!
I completely understand where you’re coming from. I’ve struggled with my weight for years and I’ve tried different diets, personal trainer, classes etc but nothing has stuck. My heaviest was 16st 4lbs and I started feeling really unwell and sluggish all the time.

I recently decided to start walking more as I live in an area that has some beautiful scenery and now I adore walking. At first it was really difficult and after about 20 minutes I’d feel tired and light headed but I walk for 1.5-2 hours every morning now and I’m really feeling the difference in myself.

I lost nearly 15lbs and then put 5 back on during holidays so I’m back at it now. I’m also making better choices with my food but I’m not denying myself anything.

Find something that you can commit to like walking or dancing and start there. It only has to be baby steps. If you do too much all at once, you run the risk of burning yourself out and falling off the wagon. Make one change and when you’re comfortable in your new routine, make another.

You’ve got this xx

Try slimming world

I think MJ is a bit of a band aid. It’s great all the time you’re taking it, but it doesn’t address the reason you’re over eating in the first place. Which is fine if it’s just the odd mars bar a couple of times a week because you just really like chocolate, but if you’ve got to the stage where it’s affecting your health, it probably goes a bit deeper. I have long believed that if obesity was treated more as a mental health condition and less as a lazy person’s condition, the NHS would save a fortune in obesity related conditions and people would keep the weight off when the diet stops. A really long winded way of saying I think you should seek CBT if you can.

What are you eating? Processed food is designed to be addictive and easy to over eat. Food is also comforting and often associated with childhood memories of reward or comfort.

We don't just tell smokers or alcoholics to just stop, there's an understanding it's an addiction and needs a process.

Personally I'd stay eating as often as you need but gradually move to more natural foods then see where you are.

Overeaters Anonymous. There are zoom.amd on person meetings. Treat the disease not the symptoms...

Have you ever tried OA? It's like AA but for overeating? I think the principles of it are quite strict to try and help people kerb food addiction. But the groups might be helpful and you don't have to speak if you don't want to.

You can still find pleasure in eating but it's just about controlling portions and binges.

I'd say try the WLI again if you can afford it and it didn't make you violently sick. I hope the anxiety meds are helping too?

I wish you the best x

Do you mean November 2024?.
Five stone since then is amazing.

I honestly feel like hypnotherapy would help. It got rid of my driving phobia. I passed my test aftwr a few sessions and drive. I'm going to find one to help me stop thinking about food.

I don’t know about WL drugs but I know about food and addiction. I had to research a lot about emotional eating to see why I couldn’t stop, and I explored lots of strategies to work out what was going on. Have you researched your connection with food? There’s a good book called When Food Is Love, you could start there, or podcasts on binge eating and emotional eating.

Also know that the more we eat carbs / sugar, the more we want them. We literally have to starve the sugar monster out. I tried the HBD diet as a “circuit breaker” as I was addicted to snacks etc and I haven’t had sugar in 3 weeks (lost 7kg).

lots of wise advice on here @Person246 💝 you can do it!

Saxender made me anxious.

Try wegovy? I'm on that and currently 3 stone down.

Don't be hard on yourself, first of all. A lot of food nowadays is designed to be addictive and makes a lot of people feel the way you do.

If you don't get on with Mounjaro can you speak to GP about alternatives? Even a referral to a dietitian to look at a new eating plan? (not in terms of drastically cutting down on eating, more switching to more satiating foods...)

Good luck OP it's such a struggle!

I can really relate, I did similar with wegovy- but it also made me feel really sick, so I ate even more!

James corden said similar about WLI not working for him because his eating isn’t about hunger.

I wish I knew the answer, but i sympathise and wish you well.

How busy is your life OP? Could you increase your activity whether that’s working, exercise, socialising (no alcohol or meals) and see if that helps as a distraction?

Youre probably addicted to food which is common. You need distractions where food isn’t available to gently ween yourself off of the larger meals and snacks. I would 100% give the injections another go.

Give it another go

I think I had 7-8 bad weeks

Now

8 months later down 5 stone

I was a binge eater due to trauma

Two takeaways some evenings

It has changed my life and my approach to food

Doesn't sound like this would work for OP, she has admitted she is addicted to food.

OP, when you used Mounjaro did you lose any weight? If you did, I would urge you to try again.