Help, Can't Stop Eating! - ThinnerTimes

C_Garcia · 07-20-2008, 02:19 PM

I'm freaking out, and this time I don't think I'm over-reacting.

For the last two days I've been on what can only be described as a feeding frenzy. I'm snacking constantly. I'm not hungry. I'm not bored. I'm just.. stuffing my face. I'm scared. It was never even this bad before surgery. I'm seven months out, and I don't know what to do.

Well, the obvious answer would just be to stop eating. And I'm trying. Honestly, I am. But I can't figure out WHY I'm eating so much.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'm really afraid that I'm going to start gaining back the weight that I've lost if I keep eating like this.

Cat_Lover · 07-20-2008, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by C_Garcia

I'm freaking out, and this time I don't think I'm over-reacting.

For the last two days I've been on what can only be described as a feeding frenzy. I'm snacking constantly. I'm not hungry. I'm not bored. I'm just.. stuffing my face. I'm scared. It was never even this bad before surgery. I'm seven months out, and I don't know what to do.

Well, the obvious answer would just be to stop eating. And I'm trying. Honestly, I am. But I can't figure out WHY I'm eating so much.

Any ideas or suggestions? I'm really afraid that I'm going to start gaining back the weight that I've lost if I keep eating like this.

It's what happens at around 6 to 7 months out. It's very, very weird.......Your not fill-in-the-blank. And all you want to do is EAT. I would eat protein, tuna, chicken, pork and beef. More solid protein. I eat about ever 3 hours for about 15 minutes and waited about 45 to 1 hour before drinking.

It's a phase, I am aver a year and now find eat protein a pain in the butt. But I love fruit and veggies (and whole grains too.)

RebeccaNV · 07-20-2008, 03:35 PM

Hmmm, you did post that you were stressed out about your job...maybe that is part of the reason?

Suzanne-photog4fun · 07-21-2008, 07:37 AM

Carbs create cravings!!!!!
Get back to basics.... mostly lean protein with a little veggie/fruit.
Do not drink before or 1/2 hr. after your meal so that you can
feel full longer. You CAN do this!

soon2bthin · 07-21-2008, 07:56 AM

Could it be PMS? I have found that I really battle the snaking demon the week my period is coming. I want to eat everything this week for some reason.

Baja Big Dog · 07-21-2008, 08:02 AM

Stress have anything to do with it? Since you are dealing with the job situation maybe? I dont know, just throwing out there for those that have dealt with this before?

Godsblessedme · 07-21-2008, 08:43 AM

it is weird kinda happened to me the week before last, i decided to do that 5 day pouch test kinda get back to basics as Suzanne suggests it REALLY helped me. try it honey and i agree its probably the stress with your situation. Maybe replace that stress eating with excersize

rainrain · 07-21-2008, 10:01 AM

most likely the reason for your need to eat is a combination of "stuff", stress, job, PMS, and of course the fact that you have been literally starving your body of nutrients since surgery. As you are able to eat more, your body is trying to survive as it thinks it needs food.
You are in control of the "stuff" in your life. Put the skids because you can. You have an amazing tool and this is the time to start mixing the can't eat with the choice of what and how much to eat. After 18 months out this will be a valuable lesson learned, because you can eat more and more as time goes on.

Empower your self and rest assured you have the tools and the ability to fill up that tiny pouch with enough protein and veggies so you will provide your body with the essential nutrition it is craving. As far as job stress, and other stresses, well we all have them, even thin people, and we need to accept our troubles and realize that eating poorly, carb rich, white foods with sugar and flour will make the stress worse, and put our body into an inefficient place to deal. Just like a car, you are a high performance luxury car, fuel it up with premium, and it runs better. So will you, don't fill it up with junk, its bad for the engine and it won't run right!!

Most importantly, remember why you chose to allow a stranger to re-route your insides, are those reasons less important? probably not, they are there and it is time to revisit them and remember the determination you had to allow your self to undergo such a drastic measure. You loved and cared about your self enough to make that decision, its time to get back to loving your self enough again to keep up the healthy choices. Keep eating, fill up that amazing puch...its wants you to take care of it and your body!! It is the choices you make to fill it up that matters and you are in control of that. Be empowered and know you can absolutely do it!! I know, I do it every single day for almost 4 years and when the days come when I eat poorly, I forgive myself and love myself more the next meal because I did not do this to fail, I did it to survive!!!

On last note, no one is perfect, give your self the space to make a poor choice once in a while, I have a one bite rule, which allows me to have one bite of anything if I really want it, then I am never deprived.....you can do this, you have the power and the control, and our amazing tool!!

C_Garcia · 07-21-2008, 04:29 PM

I think a big part of mine is that I've been getting really depressed again lately. Well, maybe not again, because I never really get better. Last night/this morning I had to get out of the house. Everything was pressing in so tightly that I felt like I was drowning. I walked around town for a while, and ended up sobbing on the "downtown plaza" on the phone with my friend for almost two hours.. I got back around four thirty. Fun times, let me tell you. Now that it's all kind of in the open, I feel a little better though. And on the bright side... I haven't binged today.

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Godsblessedme · 07-21-2008, 04:32 PM

good for you for not binging today. You know its cliche but truly take one day at a time. I'm sorry life is rough right now. You can make it sista you really can