Obsessed with food

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I'm awake right now eating after lying in bed thinking about food. I think about food for quite a lot of the day. I really want to lose about a stone. Does anyone else feel a bit obsessed with food and think about it a lot and how can I stop??

stopping eating UPF really helped me with this

Yes, I do. I love looking at recipes on line or in magazines. Love cooking shows on tv. Thinking about food brings me so much joy but I'm too heavy and need to lose some weight. And having to cook special meals when dieting only makes it worse because I have to put thought into what ingredients to buy and how to cook it so I end up eating even more. I don't have any answers.

What's upf?

for me its eat some healthy food then other things distract me

Ultra Processed Food. But I don't know the definition so will bow out now.

Read or listen to ‘Ultra Processed People’ - it might make you see food very differently.

I could gave written your post, Op! I lie in bed and it is like food is calling to me from downstairs. It is terrible. A cycle that is hard to stop. I feel desperate about it. I am obese and feel so out of control. Just bought the book recommended above.

I think about food all day. I lay awake thinking about it and wake up thinking about it. I love going to bed because it gets me to breakfast quicker. I exercise an insane amount, purely so I can eat a lot of food. I don't really eat processed foods, so I don't think that's it.

Thanks for your reply Geppili. It's nice to know I'm not alone in this x

Do you ever feel overwhelming compulsion to eat, even when not hungry? Eat things you don't even really like, just for the sake of eating? Can't get your mind off it even when you try? Eat well past fullness to the point of feeling/being sick?
It may be an eating disorder, and a chat with a GP about finding treatment might help.

How is your diet? What sorts of things do you eat?

It's not terrible but I do eat too much sugar and carbs.

You're not alone. Xx