Hi Lisa!
I love to eat, too!
I have a HUGE appetite, so I have to have plenty of low-calorie and GREAT food around! None of this "Eat one ounce of this and 1/2 ounce of that and BE HAPPY" stuff for ME! I have needed to really alter my ways, though, and eat the RIGHT foods that I know I can have plenty of without gaining weight!
Have you seen the book
Picture Perfect Weight Loss by Dr. Howard M. Shapiro? It's a great book with lots of wonderful pictures of foods that are great tasting AND fill you up because you can eat A LOT of them.
Volumetrics (not sure of the author on that one) is good, too! That book is similar in that there are comparisons made like, "You can have TEN CUPS of this OR you can have one OUNCE of this." They are GREAT!
Ah, STRESS! I know about that! Stress added a hundred pounds to my frame! I have tried to calm myself down with brownies, donuts, cheese, chips, chocolate, cookie dough (Mmmmmm! Cookie Dough!) but each and every time the stress was back again AND it brought with it a few more "sympathy pounds" for my arse!
You will find TONS of help AND support here! Everyone here either has been or IS right where you are and knows where you are coming from!
The good news is that when you check out the GOAL and MINI-GOAL parts of this site, you will find that amazing things ARE possible! If those people can do it, you can, too!
Cheryl