I still want more food, even before I've finished a meal!
This happens to me far too often. I get so excited about eating that before I'm even finished wish my food, I'm already thinking about what I can eat next. It's a total binge feeling. I don't even stop to think that I have half a bowl of oatmeal left, I just want more.
I'm not under calories either, in fact - I've been VERY over lately. I don't know what's going on!
For example what I ate today:
7:30 am bfast: bun thins with peanut butter, about a cup of mixed berries, 1/2 cup of coffee.
2:00 Lunch: 1 cup of mixed berries, subway (chicken, shredded cheese, veggies, vinegar)
5:45 Snack: 2 gummy worms, 1 worthers candy, 1 cookies
7:15 Dinner: 2 eggs/cheese, oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar.
I'm so the same way. Its bad. Today is my first day on plan, again.. only one day down, we will see how I do. You look like your doing well losing weight, do you need to change up your plan? as that can make things easier
I'm going through the same thing lately, and it suuuucks. I'm actually chewing a lot of gum, and it sort of helps. I think I just want the sensation of taste/chewing.
Just a suggestion, have more snacks. You have a HUGE gap between breakfast and lunch. And your snack is very sugary and not filling. If I have sugar, I know that I want more after my next meal and I end up binging at night. Just make sure you're getting all the nutrition you need first, and you're eating filling foods!
Gum chewing helps too. Have a piece of gum set out next to your meal so once you're done you just pop it in.
Yeah I don't normally munch on candy, we just had some extras laying around the classroom today. And I do have a huge break between lunch and breakfast, but I don't' get a break until then, it really sucks I teach prescool, so I can't really just munch whenever I want. I can during their lunch - but I'm normally super busy getting cots out for nap time that it's more work trying to find the time to eat! I'm trying to get in that habit more though.
I'll work on the snacking, I bet it would help a ton!
Um my problem is that I need to eat while I'm making my meal... its seriously the most ridiculous thing.... Like I'm so excited about eating I need to eat right that very moment...
I constantly think about food so while I'm eating I think about the next time I can eat it or what I'm going to eat for my next meal..I think it comes with calorie counting... It's made me neurotic
I have to eat stuff that doesn't taste that great to me...if I make something that tastes really really good then I know I'm going to have to get a second helping or another couple of bites. So, the blander the better. Haha! I love food too and it's really hard to just step away when it's soooo good.
I do this all the time. The thing that really changed it for me was doing exactly what you're doing - recognizing the feeling for what it is. My old bingey habits were sneaking up on me and making me fall back into bad habits. Somehow, talking about it out loud helps me. I will actually say to myself, "self, why are you thinking this way?" and talk through the reasons out loud like a nut. It usually makes the cravings and the irrational behavior stop!
I still want more food, even before I've finished a meal!
I teach prescool, so I can't really just munch whenever I want. I can during their lunch - but I'm normally super busy getting cots out for nap time that it's more work trying to find the time to eat! I'm trying to get in that habit more though.
