How to stop constantly thinking about food

[Jesswebster01]

I'm not overweight I weight 8.7 stone am 5ft 5 but I go from one extreme to the other. If being good I try to fast eat less and do my excercise if I don't excercise in the morning I tend to eat crap that day. The next day I can decide I'm having a bad day and binge eating sweets all day. I'm always thinking about food it's not because I'm hungry I just love eating. I'd like to be able to just have a treat and leave it as that where as I have a treat and think right I may aswel be bad rest of the day now. Or if I don't excercise I think il be bad today then.

Stop thinking of food and days as being “bad” and “good”, for a start.

Up your protein so you feel satisfied.

Don't the sweets make you feel revolting? They give me ulcers and gritty teeth.

I tell myself that no biscuit is worth it for the gritty teeth.

Also exercise every morning. I find I can't function properly without it.

I do excercise most mornings. And I'm active in the day. No I love sweets and chocolate. I do eat protein I don't tend to eat the crap because I'm hungry I jiat want to eat.

Try distracting yourself. I only overeat when I'm watching TV or scrolling on Mumsnet so when I feel snacky I do things that use my hands like crafty stuff or playing a game.

If you are 8st 7lbs and are 5ft 5lbs there is no need for you to be fasting. Learn to eat a healthy diet and you will find the need to eat to eat crap food will go.

I would knock the fasting on the head, up your protein and try not to bring sweet stuff into the house so you're not tempted.

I have two kids so the no sweets or chocolate aren't really a go. To be honest the fasting I just tried to see if it would stop me eating as many sweets if I told myself I couldn't eat at that time. I just seem to think about food constantly and majority of the time it's sweet stuff. Maybe I need to get in the mindset I can have a treat and ut hasn't ruined the day I can still be good rest of the day.

It’s normal to think about food, people who were not interested in obtaining and eating food all died out in the course of evolution.

Thinking about this in moral categories (good/bad) doesn’t help, a day is just a day. I exercise most days and I don’t see it as a moral duty I do it because I enjoy moving my body and being outside in nature.

If you can’t stop eating sweets, maybe don’t keep the stash at home? I also have children and I honestly don’t understand how having children equals having sweets at home. I hear the message of limiting children’s access to sweets everywhere: school communication, school nurse, parents meetings at school, health professionals, television, radio, internet, and the arguments make sense to me. Are we living on different planets?

I agree, even more reason not to have sweets at home if you have kids.

You could try binge eating healthier food eg a bag of apples, satsumas or a whole melon, there’s a limit to how many you can physically eat. After a couple of weeks begin reducing the number of these fruits.
i get that you like the feeling of physically over eating, so hopefully this will transition you out of it slowly. At the same time flip your mindset eg “I can eat as many of these as I want…mmmm how many can I eat?” Rather than a denial/binge/shame mentality as this is the underlying issue, you feel deprived mentally then over compensate

Instead of sweets you could cut up melon/grapes/bananas and freeze, this also takes longer to eat but you’d get the same chew factor

In terms of not thinking about food all the time, try to embrace it and just accept you love food but concentrate on planning and really enjoying healthy meals. Eg I think about food all the time but plan one fabulous meal every day so I focus on that. Slimming world or pinch of nom cookbooks have great recipes, slimming world kitchen also have a food delivery service for anyone which is like hello fresh.
just thinking maybe you are bored of eating the same old food? You should Mix up your healthy foods a bit to make them more like treats.

In terms of not thinking about food all the time, try to embrace it and just accept you love food but concentrate on planning and really enjoying healthy meals. Eg I think about food all the time but plan one fabulous meal every day so I focus on that. Slimming world or pinch of nom cookbooks have great recipes, slimming world kitchen also have a food delivery service for anyone which is like hello fresh.
just thinking maybe you are bored of eating the same old food? You should Mix up your healthy foods a bit to make them more like treats.

Maybe acknowledge to yourself how well you've done to have maintained a healthy weight despite always thinking about food and try to accept and remember those fluctuations in eating, activity etc is normal. No one does the same thing, day in and day out, because that's not how humans live a life.

This is what worked for me.

Give yourself full permission to eat whatever you want whenever you’re hungry.
Eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full.

Stop labelling food as good and bad, or a treat. It’s just food.

I lost almost 3 stone by doing this and no longer have cravings or think about food.

I think about food so much, I think most people do?
my solution is to not get too hungry.
i snack on corn thins with peanut butter, carrot sticks and houmous, crisp bread with pistachio cream if a want a sweet snack.
if i get hungry i focus on unhealthy food.