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Buttons4me · 18/06/2019 20:01

Eating - I think that's what has happened to me. 2 months ago I was just a little half a lb away from achieving my 4 and a half stone award but something has gone wrong and these last 2 months I'm wanting sweet food - cakes, biscuits, chocolates, puddings etc. I worked so hard and I'm ruining it. I feel hungry all of the time. I don't feel content and also I eat when I'm bored and of an evening when I'm bored. I snack on biscuits I feel like I need my sweet snacks. It has been suggested to me to go to the doctors and on googling it does seem true that there can be medical reasons for craving sweet food but I think I've just turned in to a fat pig again who likes cake and dunking biscuits. Would the doctor think I was wasting there time - nothing medically wrong just Buttons has a sweet tooth, has lost control, has no will power anymore and has sabotaged her weight loss. Thanks for reading.

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Singlenotsingle · 18/06/2019 20:04

It happens to us all. The body thinks there's a famine and it wants you to eat. I lost 4 stone a couple of years ago and now I'm trying to lose it again. Sad

Buttons4me · 18/06/2019 20:11

Thankyou. Yes I feel like I just want to eat eat eat. I don't feel content I feel hungry all of the time. The feeling of needing biscuits and cake etc. I am ruining my weight loss but I want the biscuits I want the chocolate. I thought it ridiculous the person who told me to go to my gp. My gp would think I'm wasting her time. If I want to loose weight why do i want the huge bar of chocolate. I don't think it's a medical reason just I'm weak again.

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SalemSpellman · 18/06/2019 20:33

Yes this is me! I gave up chocolate for 24 days and lost half a stone. Then fell off the wagon, I constantly crave sweet things.

I need to shift two stone by the end of August as I'm going to Peppa Pig World, and i don't want to be mistaken for mummy pig!

Knitwit99 · 18/06/2019 20:47

Me too.
I think my body is used to the feeling of being too full, or too full of carbs. And now I am eating better, and less, I still crave that stuffed with carbs or sugar feeling. Even though I know I feel better when I've eaten less. Does that make sense? I had hoped I would forget the old feeling but it hasn't happened yet.

I stand there looking at whatever it is and asking myself what I want more- chocolate or being thin. I want to be thin more than I want chocolate but I eat the chocolate anyway. It doesn't make any sense.

Stravapalava · 18/06/2019 22:17

It's a reaction by your body to being deprived of the stuff for so long to lose weight. Plus I bet you probably see it as "bad" or "naughty" I guess? Remove the attraction. Have it without guilt, allow yourself to have it anytime you want. By giving yourself permission, it loses it's pull and you won't be bingeing on it any more. It sounds crazy, but it's true.

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