Everyday is a sugar fix. I always have sweets on hand to munch on w/o thinking what harm it could do. The calories keep piling and the stress keeps coming, so I usually turn to eating as a way to defeat hunger or a craving.
Last week I was at Krispy Kreme for two donuts and bought a latte, that was my dinner. (Bad idea)
Later that evening, I was craving more dinner or a late night snack after a heavy load of studying.
I got to talk with the bf every evening, but what would help is more mental stimulation or more talk with someone, definitely not FB, myspace, Twitter, or some social networking site that ppl read all your thoughts.
Taking a walk for fresh air and renew yourself.
Stress, sometimes we turn to food for comfort, but that doesn't solve the problem, more than likely it isolates the problem.
I eat because I have a craving and also I eat because it's my friend. It doesn't talk much except to tempt me to eat more.
I just ate several wrapped Almond Roca's, yum!! I'll add other things to eat.
I drank a mug of hot cocoa to halt the cravings, and temporarily it's worked. Hot or warm drink help a lot. Hot tea is great!! Also chewing gum.
Perhaps I should buy more fruit cups, pudding, fruits, to keep light things on hand wherever I go. It can be hard if I make it hard.
I think exercise also helps. A dose of laughter even.
Eating sugar just makes your next meal or craving miserable, it may tempt you in more ways than none and you are the only one who can change it.
Rather it's not a friend, not even comfort. It has made me gain weight and talk of negativity.
It comes at a price that ppl have to acknowledge the problem, and to work with it they have to accept the problem and take the next step forward.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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Lainey,
I feel your pain!!! I've gained over 90lbs. since I was 15 years old from comfort eating. I eat just for the hell of it most times and then other times I specifically eat to drown my sorrows. I've tried dieting but I've never stuck with any, as with eating right and exercising. Recently, two doctors have told me that my blood pressure is elevated and that I may have to take blood pressure pills. I'm almost 24 and one of my greatest fears is taking pills to control my health. My father takes nearly 50 pills per day to treat all of his illnesses, and I don't want to be like him. My best friend and I have decided that we both need to do something about our weight and eating problems, and I hope this time we'll be successful with our attempt. Lainey, you have to get a handle on this habit before it consumes you. I know it has nearly consumed me. I'm rooting for you! You can do it!
Rain
Lainey,
I can relate. Although my down fall at times can be the fried foods not so much the sweets. I do exercise daily which has changed my life. It has cost me a lot since I do see a personal trainer but has def changed me for the better! But I understand everything you are saying. I think I eat at times because I am bored. But I believe exercise helps everyone. I have never eaten better since I started last year!
Definitely. Once I hit college all of my bad eating habits were magnified. My success over the last year--losing about 25 lbs. so far--has been through little changes. Little changes that I can keep up and that, I hope, will add up. I warn you, there has been alot of giving up--but really its about modulating. I only have soda, usually, once a week. No more white bread. One sweet thing a day, about five days a week--like a decent sized cookie, or a small piece of really, really good chocolate--rather than binging. (Oh, and snacks are good! Only, watch out on the fruit cups, most are packed in syrup and that's alot of extra sugar.) Good luck!!
WAIT...I'll finish reading in a minute but I NEED TO KNOW WHERE THERE IS A KRISPY KREME? OMG....we were at work YESTERDAY talking about good donuts and how krispy kreme in glen burnie and the one on Reistertown Road are G-O-N-E :(
okay..I'm back. I saw Krispy Kreme and the fat girl in me came out first !!! Okay as you can guess from my pic...I'm no Boney Barbie !! I have always been a chunky girl and I've lost weight with the help of pills and Weight Watchers over the years. Weight Watchers was great but then came my diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (and later Polymyositis, a muscle disease) and the start of Prednisone and back came the weight DESPITE me still going to the gym. Talk about pissed. I admit I loves me a good snickers or mr goodbar or anything chocolaty with nuts and I keep some in my desk at work. For me I think I eat my chocolate/nuts at work cause of my son's nut allergy. so from the outside it looks like I'm a bigger junk food junkie than I am. I eat WHERE I do to keep from triggering my son's nut allergy.
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