i'm not fat, but i eat a lot of food in one sitting and i can't stop eating chocolate, it's very unhealthy the way i snack but i can't stop, does anyone have any ideas? also when i ask my friends for help all they say is your not fat why are you trying to loose wieght? but im not i'm just trying to control my eating habits and get toned.
2006-11-16 11:52:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Keep in mind the following about emotional eating and binging:
Diets and changing your eating to healthy food choices can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.
You may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable.
This all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging before starting our next diet.
Please learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:
You already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.
P.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost.
2006-11-16 23:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by Sunflower 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask your parents to cut down on the chocolate and snacks they buy or at least have in your access. Also its not easy but just get away from it and try to go for fresh fruits and vegetables instead. Baby carrots are good to snack on as it does take a bit of time to chomp down a few so that should pass some time.
2006-11-16 19:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you might want to exchange your unhealthy food with more healthy foods like veggies and fruit.I have for the past week and I already lost 2 pounds.So try to exchange your fatty foods with less carbs,calories and fats.
2006-11-16 20:36:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drink more water, and when you have the urge to binge try getting up and doign something to get your mind off it.
2006-11-16 20:08:10 · answer #4 · answered by Sweetbulbs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chew on something you can't digest or can't eat like chewing gum a pencil
2006-11-16 20:02:22 · answer #5 · answered by Angel B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.you need to get help right away. your too good for that. so tell someone and they will help. its not worth living like that. its OK a lot of people have this problem but tell someone u trust and i grantee they will help u get help.
2006-11-16 19:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try eating only stuff that you bought!
2006-11-16 19:54:46 · answer #7 · answered by lisette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋