The secrets of overweight people

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I mean this in a light-hearted way, but I guess it might also be helpful to us to see where we're getting it from.

I'll start:

I always serve myself the largest portion, and often nick a few extra bites in between the cooking and serving stages.

I eat a full meal whether I am particularly hungry or not (then often have seconds).

I gave up sugar and doubled my cheese intake (then I went back on sugar too).

Speaking of which, no meal is not improved by a generous topping of grated cheese.

I could quite happily drink a bottle of wine a night, although I don't let myself. On my 'good' nights I drink hot chocolate/ couple of beers and eat crisps instead.

Sometimes if nobody has seen me eat my first slice of toast, I'll put a third one in. This is especially the case when it's white bread, the 'only one' I could buy in the corner shop.

When DH is away I love to read and eat chocolate in bed.

Anyone else got any good tips to help me continue to sabotage my weight loss efforts?

I buy a box of french fancies at the supermarket and eat them all in the car before I set off home

Ah yes, the secret supermarket car picnic. Mine was usually 2x scotch eggs and a packet of mint viscounts.

Loads of people do this. Most supermarket car parks resemble vast drive-in private restaurants: every other car will have someone taking time out of their day to scoff down their trigger foods before driving home with the 'real' shopping.

I've just lost 6 stone out of 9 in total to lose, but the habits that are still deeply ingrained in me are:

The need to finish my meal no matter how huge a portion I've been served
I can eat several bags of share chocolate in a row
A giant bag of doritos is destroyed in 10 mins
Easily eat a whole tub of icecream after a dominos pizza
I eat a giant curry pot noodle and keep getting more buttered bread to dip in so it ends up being 6 slices
I pile a roast dinner on the plate so it's like a pyramid shape and have to finish it
I get the 4 for 3 offer on greggs sausages rolls and eat them all
In summer I get through 10 callipos a day

I am overweight by about 4 stones. I can’t eat a massive amount at meal times.
Breakfast is an egg, a slice of toast and a glass of orange
A biscuit and tea (no sugar) mid morning.
Lunch either cottage cheese and pineapple or home made soup or a small sandwich.
Dinner a variety of food small portions...
In a week I would eat one bar of chocolate (Ritter Sport), maybe two cakes and two desserts like Bonne Maman mousse.
Why am I the size of a small horse?

I once found my MIL in a car park eating a few magnums in a row, she didn't feel she could do it at home. I felt sad for her. I have the opposite problem, DP doesn't care what I eat and was still all over me at 20 stone so no pressure to change.

Forget to eat that old chestnut.

Too busy to get a proper lunch...yep. Grab a packet of crisps and some chocolate. yep. Have another one because I haven't had lunch. yep. Then kid myself that I don't eat that much...

I don't like sweets, but FOOD! I eat too much. I eat late at night. I buy larger sizes.

I am (4 stone) overweight because of 50-100 extra calories a day over 25 years

I deliberately moved to London to lose the weight (it's working, just commuting has made me lose 2 stone - I basically burn off that extra 100 calories)

The worst thing I do is when I have pmt I eat 4 bags of french fry crisps (280 calories). One month I ate 6 in one go. It's the salt.

One kilo...yes one kilo of chocolate in one sitting regularly...that's what makes me overweight!

Living in a shared house with limited access to food storage and preparation facilities means you live on expensive, convenient, overpackaged, nutritionless, highly calorific, processed crap. You don't even have fun getting fat.

Dieting is the secret to gaining weight.

I never binged before I dieted. I honestly think it is so common for binge eating to be triggered by dieting.

This is me. I am getting better and trying to stop the destructive habits because they are. But at my worst id:
Eat a pack of those deli supermarket cookies on the way home from the supermarket (and have another pack for actually eating at home)
Eat about a kilo of chocolate in a day
Eat a dinner plate piled high with pasta
Drink a bottle of wine
Never say no to food.

Fil was once offered a chocolate after dinner and said "no thanks I couldn't... Well of course I could but I won't"
It had genuinely never occurred to me to apply willpower.
I'm much better than I was, although last night I did eat an entire Easter egg.

This thread is making me smile. I love the honesty.

For me, it’s carbs. Comfort eating. Having no brakes on my gob - once I start to eat I simply don’t want to stop. Wine - and the snackcidents that inevitably follow. I never ever lose my appetite. Even when I had morning sickness I forced food down. Chocolate and the ability to keep eating it even when I feel sick.

Food is my friend. It never, ever lets me down.

Yes to the supermarket picnic. I'm a sucker for the hot pasties thingy. A Tesco cheese and onion slice (x3) or a sausage bap or...just anything really. Eat in car, throw wrappers in car park bin. There you go, it never happened.

I never understood why working permanent nights was an obesity risk until I went back to them at 37.
I have no sleeping or eating pattern. At all.
I can wake up hungry at 1pm if on nights, and also at 4am on my days off. And then it's grab and eat food. I also apparently eat in my sleep 🤦 because I find the wrappers next to the bed.
The hunger is almost overpowering, I get hungry always around 4/5am when I'm at work and grab what I can really or I feel sick. Days off I go sometimes all day with nothing, but then have my dinner and go through the kitchen like pac man.
I also have zero will power where buying it is concerned, I've just finished work and hit the bakers on my way home. And I don't even feel guilty because I'm tired, back tonight and I'm hungry.
But chocolate is my huge downfall. I will eat a large bar in one sitting without taking a breath!
Tbh I've quit looking at anything other than my face in the mirror, it's not worth the anguish! Haven't weighed myself in years. Have selective memory when buying clothes, I 'forget' that they have gone up 3 sizes in the same amount of years.
I'm fairly active so I use this as an excuse to eat the calories a small village could survive on.
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Agree totally about the salt thing when period is due, it's the only time I eat --a family size bag a day of crisps.

Wish sometimes I could change it, but I've slipped into apathy about my weight for various reasons and just, well, carry on.

I don't think I've ever read such an honest thread about weight and eating.

Well I don't do most of this stuff unless I'm actually binging...

I guess my overweight "secret" is that hate hate hate emotions. Happy? Sad? Angry? Scared? Excited? Feeling something but don't know that? Kill it! Kill it with zoning out while auto-eating!

Not overweight anymore but when I was obese I

• would drink a full crate of bulmers to myself of a night binge watching Greys Anatomy. With snacks
• always planning my next meal even whilst eating the first
• I would cry at night wondering why I found it so hard and then promised tomorrow would be better but it never was and I would ignore previous nights melt down

My tip is:
Have a baby who still doesn’t sleep at 18 months old. Give in constantly to exhaustion related carb cravings that far outweigh any extra calories used by breastfeeding.

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I don't binge eat, I don't snack, I don't eat massive meals because I'm an emetophobe and can't stand the full feeling. I eat less than most people, I suspect. Most days I eat twice a day - lunch and dinner.

I don't like junk food. I don't like sugar so very rarely eat sweets, cakes or biscuits. I had some cake this weekend and I reckon it's the first time in 6 months.

I'm almost 3 stone overweight because I'm extremely sedentary and lazy and can't stand exercise and have gained just over 1.1lb per year since my lowest adult weight (age 25) to where I am now.

You absolutely can be significantly overweight without overeating.

I just like eating. Any food, any time. It makes me happy. Unfortunately my liver is giving up on me now so I really need to get the weight off, but I'm discovering that the buzz of controlling my eating and seeing the weight drop is as enjoyable as eating, just a bit harder.

Lol at snackcident :)
Yes to emotion. If I've had a hard day, I reward myself with chocolate. If I'm celebrating - chocolate. If I'm busy, chocolate to get me through. And then if u have time to relax, a chocolate bar helps me relax even more.

If you're sedentary it means you need less energy so less calories. So you're still over eating regardless.

A 5'5 150lbs woman lying down all day would need 2,010 calories to maintain her current weight. Anything more than that is overeating.

When there is no-one else in the house, I see that as a great opportunity to spend it on a never ending journey to the kitchen !
If no-one see you eat it, it's calorie free

Chocolate.

Any time food is mentioned/advertised on telly ask myself if I fancy one of those right now, never mind that it's not meal time, I've eaten my dinner, etc.

Fizzy drinks by the bucket-load.

Never exercise or walk if I can go by car.