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 can eat a whole Dominos plus sides.
I love a wee cheese twist on the walk home from Lidl.
On my mornings at work I often run out of time for breakfast and ‘need’ to go to M&S for a pain au chocolat.
I have zero time for exercise since DS was born.
I love dark chocolate Hobnobs.

Every time I go into the kitchen I eat something, usually cheese. I do the car park picnic thing. Rarely eat a sandwich without a pack of crisps (I crave crunchiness).

I don't do most of these things- well only very occasionally. My 'thing' is sharing bags of crisps and chocolate bars. Everything else I can resist. I never feel full or sick from overeating.

I am hungry all the time. ALL the TIME! DH fills the cupboards with crap food, even though I do the shopping and cook really healthy food and make cakes.

It's so hard to resist all the time. It's exhausting distracting myself.

I'm greedy.
I'm lazy.
I secret binge.
I eat chocolate (share size packets/bars) everyday.
I hate myself a little bit but don't know how to change

I cook healthy, tasty meals from scratch for the whole family and then I binge on carbs in secret.
I know when I am hungry and when I am craving something. It does not stop me.
I have a "black and white" way of thinking so if I eat a biscuit I had not planned to eat, my whole day is "ruined" and I might as well eat three or four packets.
I never feel uncomfortably full, even after eating 5000kcal.

The weight is falling off at the moment because I am breastfeeding a baby with lots of allergies, but I am afraid I am going to pile it back on.

I drink too much, don't like to leave a bottle of wine half finished. Have been an overeater for years, complete lack of portion control. Have a weird attitude with food, food is love, I like to feed everyone. I'm not much of a snacker but just eat way too much

I also have to have a cupboard full of food just in case. I hate not having plenty of tins and packets and snacks just in case I ever fancy it.

I love food. My DH loves food.
We try and diet together but then one wants a takeaway and that's it, game over.
Can easily eat a big bar of chocolate a night or a share bag of crisps.
There's so much chocolate in this house too after Easter and there's no way the toddler will eat it all

I'm an emotional eater and everything triggers me wanting something nice. Im sat tucking into a big box of biscuits now because I'm feeling low.

The doctor recently suggested I might have IBS but from reading up, it makes you lose weight. That bit has escaped me!

No thyroid here and ever since if I eat more than 800 calories a day I'm properly fucked.
I used to get away with buttered toast etc but now o have to count every calorie and sadly they don't include butter or toast!

I'm 'only' 2 stone overweight. And I try to eat healthily.
But I'm greedy and exert little willpower.

I'm a bugger for sweet food but not chocolate. Or shop cake as I only like home made.

But I do graze and do not plan meals well. There are too many take away in my life although I'm cutting back on those for financial as well as health reasons.

If I lived nearer to a chatwins or a Gregg's I'd be larger as i bloody love a fresh doughnut (or 4).

I will binge eat cereal.
When I'm full on sweet things I can switch to savoury and start again, and vice versa.
I'm either perfect or binge eating. There is no middle ground for me. I need to binge eat as I am always 'starting again tomorrow' so I need to eat everything now because I won't be able to tomorrow.

I think I will never have a relaxed relationship with food or my body - but I do really enjoy food.

I can take or leave bread. Everything else is fair game.

Supermarket car park picnics are the BEST!

being over weight doesn’t Al2ays mean you eat too much

I am 6 stone overweight. Ds tracked me for 2 days followed me everywhere (we do work together) and filled in mfp for me.

I apparently eat around 800 - 1000 calories per day.
I don’t think that is over eating.

I have sugar in my coffee but hate biscuits, doughnuts cakes or any sugary food.
If we eat out we either don’t get a pudding or I have a sorbet.

I have an allergy to all dairy and wheat. I am a vegetarian/vegan (I eat eggs about once every month) and I am 5 ft 4” and 15stone.

Yesterday we ate out for lunch.

Didn’t eat breakfast

At lunch I ordered an onion and tomato omelette. It came with chips and salad.

I ate 3/4 of the omelette and some of the salad I didn’t touch the chips I was so full.

At home for dinner I had a slice of wheat free pumpernickel bread with vegan cheese and salad cream and a glass of orange juice.

@Prequelle - my basal metabolic rate is 1305 per day. That's how many I need to maintain (my already overweight body) just lying down all day.
That's quite different to 2050.

Prequelle
I am 5ft 4” and over 200lbs and if I ate over 2000 calories I would be putting vast amount of weight on

Lots of cheese, a shaving here, a shaving there, 'oh dear it's all gone!' wine to wash it down. Pizza, probably a whole one. Chocolate only the good stuff dark with cherries as I read somewhere about a model eating a square a night, if it's ok for her, then it's ok for me. However, it's often the whole lot, mental note to never believe you have the model's restraint.

Always have a jar of Chocolate Spread to hand with spoon.

I eat an extremely healthy plant-based vegan diet...

... supplemented by loads of (vegan) wine, (vegan) nachos and (vegan) chocolate .

I'm about 1.1/2 stone overweight, BMI wise only 1 stone but I seem to have lost will power, that I definitely had before. I saw results quicker and it was motivating. All my DC's friends Mums seem thin/very thin and can wear fashionable clothes that although unflattering still make them look thin.

Yes, I do feel sluggish, I do walk about 3 miles a day and do 'floor exercises' but it makes me hungrier!

I have perfected the skill of mindless eating.

It took me 30 years, but, I am at Sensai Senseless Sustenance Level.

It's going to fucking kill me.

I’m currently dieting and have lost a stone, with three more to go to put me into the healthy weight range.

I don’t binge, I rarely eat more than a normal portion of anything at a time because I hate being uncomfortably full. I’ve put weight on from spending years consuming slightly too many calories every day.

Having two biscuits instead of one (or none), having a flavoured latte instead of a regular coffee, having cheese and beans on my lunchtime jacket potato instead of just beans, having a mini magnum after dinner instead of a piece of fruit and so on every day.

Throw in an aversion to any exercise more strenuous than walking the dog and it all adds up over the years.

Prequelle

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.

That’s not right.

Total daily energy expenditure for a sedentary 26 yo female at 5’5” and 150lbs is more like 1600 to 1700 calories.

Basal metabolic rate (ie energy expenditure just to maintain bodily functions) would be around 1300 to 1400 calories.

She would have to be lightly to moderately active to eat 2000 calories a day and maintain.

"Serious question, although the occasional binge is fun, day to day do you not feel sluggish and ill?"
I lost a load of weight recently and overhauled my diet. Not waking up with a 'food hangover' was a revelation - I didn't know any different.
Now, although I'm overweight and eat too much I am aware of that feeling and how awful it is (and what the opposite feels like!)
I also lose weight and tone up really quickly when I actually put the effort in.