I have majour issues with cereal, two boxes a night sometimes!! typicaly 4-10 bowls I just can't stop! my father buys more because my sister asks for more no matter how i beg for them to just STOP.
so I'm trying to realise what it is in cereal i crave so badly, does anyone else have these problems? it doesnt taste so brilliant and i dont restrict carbs!
it's seriously hindering me! I've cut all over binges on the upside
Hey Clearskye...a couple of thoughts about your cereal issue...which cereal are you eating...if they are the typical high sugar kind you are probably just consuming empty calories and thus not feeling satisfied and not really getting a lot of nutrition.
If it's cereal for your sister, can you ask your sister to keep it in her room? Can you sit down with your dad and ask him to make you accountable? If you eat two boxes a night YOU are responsible for going to the store and buying replacement boxes. Can you ask your sister to request cereal you don't like? Can you put the cereal in a cabinet and put a padlock in the cabinet with a combination you don't know?
Can you change your habits? If you are eating cereal at night, what can you change so that doesn't happen. Can you join a book group or get a job and stay out of the house? Can you take up a hobby? Can you ask your family for support - if you start to eat cereal, can they talk you down?
I have problems with cold cereal too, I think it's the sugary carbiness of it. Are you eating enough during the day or does your body crave the kind of fast energy that cereal gives?
Cereal is evil and should be banished from the face of the earth!!!
Ok maybe that is a little extreme, but cereal for me is a trigger food. Also if I do eat a bowl of cereal in the morning I am HUNGRY (Imean lick the paint off the walls kind of hungry) all day long.
The kids eat cereal so I have it in the house with me. But we have gone from storing it on top of the fridge in plain sight to ptting it in the cupboard above the fridge that we need to go to the laundry room and get the step stool out to get it down.
I buy Natures Path Pumpkin Flax Granola. When the box comes in the house I measure out 1/2 cup servings and put them in tupperware containers. Nearly everyday I take one of those along in my lunch with mixed berries and yogurt. That is the only kind and only time I will allow myself to eat cereal.
Cereal just can't be kept in my house. I, too, go completely overboard. It's like a switch gets turned on and I have to go back for more. And it's physically impossible for me to pour a regular bowl. I think it's the sweet, crunchy yet wet texture that gets me.
I'm sorry that your family isn't understanding. I know it sounds extreme for some people, but if you have binge tendencies sometimes the only thing that works is not having it around period.
I can not have sugary cereal around either! I will eat and eat until I am STUFFED.. like can't move stuffed.. so I buy my son cheerios.. and I dont like them... if they were honey nut.. different story lol.
Your family is in denial..you need to have a serious talk to them about it..though it might not do anything..and then what you do is get a glue stick and a fitness mag and paste fit or skinny girls on the boxes! So if you grab one you will know it will hinder your true goals.
I'm so glad I'm not alone on this, I hate all cereal, it tastes disgusting, I even have it with water just to make it worse, but its CRUNCHY!! sure branflakes may be healthier than honney nut somthing or another, but it doesnt matter what it is, one bit and eat the lot! I'll talk to my family more seriously about it, it's not normal!
Also changing to oats rather than cereal in the mornings helped today nice to feel incontrol for once!
My son just came home from a week with my parents -- he saw an empty box of Cocoa Pebbles on the counter (a cereal I would NEVER buy for the kids to eat) and wanted to know what happened to it. It was some special "value pack" that Target was selling, with twice as much cereal as a normal box. I had eaten it all in about 3 days while he was out of town. Having to tell him that made me realize that it wasn't a normal amount of cereal for one person to consume in that amount of time. Ugh.
Just a suggestion but maybe try a different, healthier cereal?
I used to binge on cereal too...but now I eat a 1/2 cup of Fiber One original with a small handful of berries and a 1/4 cup of vanilla soya milk and it is just the right amount. I enjoy it and don't feel the need or urge to have more.
I don't even care about my daughter's Cocoa Puffs and haven't been tempted to eat them -at all- since I started eating Fiber One.
I haven't had cereal in weeks but seriously, my cravings are really really really getting to me. Every hour of every day this week I've REALLY wanted a bowl of cereal. It's a comfort thing with me, and I've had a very stressful month.
Also, I find that my cereal cravings also have a LOT to do with needing calcium/dairy in my diet. I don't like milk - but when I have cereal I always drink THAT milk so I'm starting to think maybe that's where my huge cravings are coming from.
No you aren't alone. I used to binge terribly on cereal when I was home alone and in the dorm rooms in college and then I would purge hoping no one would notice. I still have trouble sometimes but have realized that I gave the food the power that it had over me. Rethink yourself and when you want to eat, sit in front of the mirror and try to understand why you go back for more. I should probably eat in front of the mirror more often because I have noticed that it's a way to focus on me and meal time, without any other distactions. You can overcome this, it's supposed to be conquered.
Well, several of us in the thread have admitted to having the same problem, but not with healthy cereal.
I haven't had any binge cravings at all since switching from Frosted Mini-wheats (claims to be healthy...but it's still coated in sugar and high fructose corn syrup) to Fiber One.
I still binge on healthy cereal too. It might actually be WORSE with healthy cereal than with the sweet stuff! I'm starting to think I might have an actual real problem - these cravings aren't subsiding!
Cereal bingers!
nice to feel incontrol for once!
