Addicted to ice cream - help

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I don’t know if this is the right forum. It’s a bit of a weird one. I’m basically an ice cream addict (as dumb as that sounds!) and I eat often two pints of ice cream every day (on top of lunch, dinner, etc). I work 9-5 and all I think about is the ice cream I’m going to eat when I get home. I love my job, I love my husband, I love my friends, I have a lot of hobbies and travel a lot. And I know I should be so so lucky , yet it just makes difference. I have a coffee with a friend, I think about needing to go home to eat ice cream. I go travelling, I think about how long it is until I can eat ice cream again. I just don’t take anything in. It sounds so stupid. I know I’m really unhappy deep down but I just have no idea what it’s about or why I keep needing to fill this hole.

i used to be a size 6 but have drastically gained weight and now I’m a size 10 (I’m 4’11 so very short). I have no idea how to cope with this. I tried just not going to the shops and purchase any ice cream and instead o didn’t even bother getting out of bed, like my life wasn’t worth living.

even weirder I have never had disordered eating in the past, only since being in my 30s

just looking for some advice really

Try swapping to ice lollies.

I think this needs some outside help to work through what’s going on here. It almost sounds like the kinds of intrusive thoughts you get with some kinds of OCD. There’s also the binge eating organisation BEAT that could maybe help - https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/

You might be able to find some eating disorder specialist therapist that could help, perhaps?

I can absolutely relate and of course you wouldn't want to seek 97 kinds of therapy sell people about it etc that is so involved and embarassing and stressful and scary if anything that makes me want to binge x1000!!!!!! OF COURSE you would want to keep to yourself omg I would rather swim In a pool of rusty nails for 72 hours than even consider for a femtosecond about telling anyone about this problem holy absolute shit!!!!!!!!!!!

so what I would do is get rid of any opportunity to buy ice cream, always have someone with you when you go shopping for food or eat etc and then you need to be like ok I can't do this in front of them!!!

Also what I do is replace and increase, so get protein ice cream or just freeze yoghurt and add flavor powder and sweetener, also add acacia fiber, konjac powder to stretch it to larger mass so I can stuff face with like 1kilo of it while only taking in like 700cal and high protein instead of 2500cal and 300g sugar or something insane when I get ahold of real ice cream!!!! That is just what needs to be prevented really, use ALL outside control factors that you can such as not even carrying money, telling yurself you cannot eat with or infront of X, because I need a imaginary straight jacket and shackles to control myself around ANYTHING that tastes good!!!

otherwise I will eat so much it is not even in the realm of human consumption I am talking diarrhea numb gut wrecking bloat disaster horror binge level of magnitude I will hit the absolute limit of what my organs can handle so it is scary and these thing do help me so good luck to you!!!