To think there's no way to stop eating

[elf0508]

I just can't stop myself eating. And none of it good. I bought a 6 pack wotsits yesterday and three have been eaten by me already. A 10 pack of biscuits and four have gone. Two weeks ago I got two tins of shortbread for a Chris as gift and ate them. Got two selection boxes on Friday as a Christmas gift and by Sunday they were gone. I just eat junk but I cant stop, why can't I stop

I'm trying to get out of the habit of 'eating until I'm full' to 'eating until I'm not hungry'. There is a subtle difference but it does make all the difference.

Buy cherry tomatoes. They're delicious and you can almost kid yourself you're eating sweets.

Chocolate lives in the freezer, harder to overeat. Buy crisps I don't like and drink lots of water. I'm still overweight but I'd easily be mahoosive if I didn't live by these rules.

yes, just don't buy it. I'm the same with alcohol. Biscuits and crisps I can take or leave but if there is a bottle of wine in the fridge I find it very hard not to drink it all. So I just don''t have it in the house, not in the week anyway. Trying very hard to cut down at weekends too.

More protein
More water
More excersise
Stop buying crap

Elf,

It may be that you have forgotten how food can taste when it is simple and fresh cooked.

I have found that food that is genuinly good quality and nutritious is also the stuff that tastes the best. Veggies can taste sweet. Meat can be savoury when it only has its natural fat. Fruits have a sharp taste from their natural juices.

The fatty sugary salty foods like wotsits may seem to have flavour and taste, but under the fat, salt and sugar they offer little to satisfy hunger. And thay don't actually have much taste.

I do know this may sould like the health police but it's not. I never use anything "low fat" or "low calory" because I think they taste rubbish. I just cook fresh stuff. And it is quicker than a boil in the bag or a cook in sauce...

Good luck...

Wotsits are nowt but tufts of cheesy air. I think you are rather disciplined to only have eaten 3 packs since yesterday .

I have a thing about toast, cold white bread toast with thick butter on it - now there's a problem!

butter is my problem at the moment too. we only buy lurpak. A habit i wish we hadnt started!!!

I have frankly given up until after Christmas. Then I will leap into action and shed the podge. In theory. I'm hoping that my May holiday (first holiday in 4 years!) will seem much closer from the other side of Christmas.

It's all very well saying not to buy the crap, but DH comes home with loads of it!

May sound daft but have you thought about taking up some kind of crafting? Most junk food eating happens in front of the TV or when people are bored. If your fingers (and mind) are busy making something, they can't be putting food in your mouth.

I used to suffer this but it seems to have gone by itself now I'm older (I'm nearly 40). These days I am happy with a cup of coffee or tea usually and I tend to favour a low ish carb diet and I think this helps stop cravings happening in the first place. Now if I eat biscuits or heavy carbs I get a weird sticky taste in my mouth I don't like. Perhaps you will "grow out of it"? Boredom is definitely a factor though and for me a hot drink suffices as there is a certain ritual in making it, it takes time to drink, and the warmth of the drink inside you is like a big hug...

Yy to tatty I've by no means grown out of over eating yet but I will I think, nowadays I'll have a cup of tea for dessert which sounds nuts but it's the ritual, the time it takes etc. I'll have another one mid evening if I want something. But then evening snacking was a big problem for me.

Mince pie season is lethal!

Maybe I will outgrow it in the same way that I seem to have outgrown my studentish wish to drink much alcohol.

I am gradually cutting out or down on a lot of carbs, and finding that after a time I don't really miss them that much if I am eating enough protein.