Snowbunny, I hear your desperation.
I certainly don't have this all figured out, I'm still at my wits end if I think about it all too much (hence, haven't posted in a week--I decided I was thinking too much...).
But...
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I am now at my heaviest and dont know what to do! i really have a problem with portion control and night time eatting!....
ANY HELP WILL BE GRATEFUL!
My first probably 30 pounds or so were from a few basic rules I made for myself:
*No eating in the car--well, except coffee, but no froo-froo coffee. And water is fine.
*Put everything on a plate or in a bowl--and no, the bags fast food comes in don't count! When I would buy a typical fast food meal and put it on a plate... well, I quickly found out that those meals don't fit on a plate! It's shocking, really.
*Pack lunch whenever possible--100 percent compliance here might not be possible, but buying cafeteria food is the exception for me now, not the norm.
*Measure everything in servings. Even if I decide to have two servings of something, I still measure each serving.
*Keep the most dangerous foods out of the house, period--exception being leftovers, which get frozen immediately. So if I want it, I go get one serving. Ice cream? I get in the car, go to the gas station, and buy a Dove bar--Or go to the gourmet ice cream place on the good side of the tracks. Yeah, it's like 500 calories, but that's not going to make a difference for a big girl like me if it happens occassionally--but the 2000 calories from the PACK of Dove bars will...
I did these one at a time, in roughly the above order. It took months, but it wasn't really hard to do one thing at a time. Now I'm working on "No 'Found' Food" and dealing with social situations/holidays.
Good luck, snowbunny. I hear ya'. It's hard.