I am such a glutton... what can I do?

Hi. My experience with food cravings is this: The first 2 weeks or so are the hardest - it gets easier with each passing day. If you know that you that it will get easier to resist as time passes, this may give you extra discipline in the first few weeks.

Limiting how much one eats is a great discipline to learn especially as a person ages.

Not sure of your situation but i eat just two times a day with just a regular size meal. example like a meat and two vegetables with water to drink.

Neostarwcc said:

Im such a glutton that im starting to approach eating 4,000 calories a day. The good news is though is that I haven't been gaining any weight since I was released from the hospital. I still weigh 380 pounds. I mean my doctor says that if I exercised and kept up with that, my risk of health problems including blood clots would significantly decrease. It's my inactivity that's concerning him and the reason I almost died last Janurary from a blood clot in my heart.

It's gotten me thinking that maybe I should start losing some weight. Even if I only lose 80 pounds I still would be able to move a lot easier. The weather recently has been poopy for walking so I haven't exercised since Wednesday but starting Monday its supposed to be decent out. I mean I eat so much that walking is really my only option. I cannot afford to eat healthy and I'm so addicted to food that

I don't eat sweets or anything super bad for me unless it's a special occassion otherwise I'd be over 400 pounds by now. It's mostly just stress eating and overeating that got me to be where I am today. I've been stress eating since second grade and I'm almost 36 years old now. So... a long time I've been stuck in this sin. I pray for deliverance and it never comes and I lack the ability to do this without God. I need him. What do I do? I'm not getting physical therapy again until May 4th. So it's affecting my physical abilities. I'm having a hard time attending church with my walker. Let alone with a cane which'd be a pretty sweet upgrade.

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It's good you know how many calories you take in daily. My trainer tells me , when I complain, " it's your diet"! So she got me on " www.myfitnesspal.com . This really helped track my calories and start to manage my food intake.
It seems to me you need a nutritionist as well as a trainer to help you. Your road back to a healthy weight should be supervised. I'm not sure if you have checked your insurance coverage for this but I would leave no stone unturned! Also seek out support groups. Surrounding yourself with others is very encouraging through this process.
Blessings

I have started on a program called OPTAvia which has helped me in the past. After gaining a few too many pounds back I have restarted the program. It REALLY works and helps control the addiction to carbohydrates.

Send me a private message if you're interested in learning more.

Neostarwcc said:

I cannot afford to eat healthy

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I eat foods that take work for the body to digest; so the body burns calories trying to digest what I eat Plus, possibly > since I eat unrefined foods it can take all day for the body to get the energy out of the food; so all day long I am getting energy, without giving myself quick energy fixes that leave some to store as fat tissue. You can check with an expert about this theory

Neostarwcc said:

It's mostly just stress eating

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Well . . . feed on God's word about this >

"'Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.'" (Matthew 11:28-29)

To me, this means Jesus gives us an unconditional guarantee that while . . . if . . . we are submitting to Him, He gives us "rest for your souls." So, any time I am getting into what is not rest for my soul, I first need to stop and trust Jesus to correct me immediately, then discover what He has me doing.

And feed on this, all the time.

Food does not love us.

But there are other things people use in order to feel some sort of comfort which is not love. Ones can be unable to relate well with people; so they go to pets. Others go to adrenaline rush stuff. So, we can see that there are ways to go to pleasure without putting on weight, but it does not give us the deep correction we need so we can get into God's way of loving.

There are people who can get very intimate with the nice feelings of sexual stuff, but they are not really intimate with each other, but using one another. And ones get weak in seeking pleasures that are not love, so we can fight and argue and complain and stay frustrated and unforgiving.

So, in case you get wise to the food craving stuff . . . still you will need to avoid other tricks! And only God is able to make us wise and successful so we stay with Him in His way of loving. And here we have perfect satisfaction so we do not get tricked into depending on entertainment and excitement and pleasure >

"be content with such things as you have" > in Hebrews 13:5. With God in His love and how He has us loving, we are deeply satisfied, plus guided wisely in His creativity

So, we are wise to not feed on anything which has us making excuses and thinking and feeling otherwise. Trust our Creator to make you creative

Neostarwcc said:

Im such a glutton that im starting to approach eating 4,000 calories a day. The good news is though is that I haven't been gaining any weight since I was released from the hospital. I still weigh 380 pounds. I mean my doctor says that if I exercised and kept up with that, my risk of health problems including blood clots would significantly decrease. It's my inactivity that's concerning him and the reason I almost died last Janurary from a blood clot in my heart.

It's gotten me thinking that maybe I should start losing some weight. Even if I only lose 80 pounds I still would be able to move a lot easier. The weather recently has been poopy for walking so I haven't exercised since Wednesday but starting Monday its supposed to be decent out. I mean I eat so much that walking is really my only option. I cannot afford to eat healthy and I'm so addicted to food that

I don't eat sweets or anything super bad for me unless it's a special occassion otherwise I'd be over 400 pounds by now. It's mostly just stress eating and overeating that got me to be where I am today. I've been stress eating since second grade and I'm almost 36 years old now. So... a long time I've been stuck in this sin. I pray for deliverance and it never comes and I lack the ability to do this without God. I need him. What do I do? I'm not getting physical therapy again until May 4th. So it's affecting my physical abilities. I'm having a hard time attending church with my walker. Let alone with a cane which'd be a pretty sweet upgrade.

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You may try keto diet.

Its very difficult to overeat with fat and high quality food, if your body is working properly. Its sugar and malnutritioned food that makes us overeat constantly.

Neostarwcc said:

I cannot afford to eat healthy

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Organic oats are pretty cheap, and shouldn't have too many calories. Same for parboiled rice, though don't go nuts on it since even parboiled it still has a little arsenic left in it. Both are high in fiber too.

everything serves Gods purpose, which He purposed in Himself ....

They have some relatively cheap options that make exercise easier in the house. I've never tried a mini exercise bike myself, but I've seen people recommend them. This one is only 50 dollars. I should note that supposedly it's not great for carpet or certain kinds of carpet. Some people use them for their arms too which is interesting.

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Neostarwcc said:

I'm sorry but what is parboiled rice? Is that anything like white rice?

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Rice that's already been partially boiled, resulting in most toxins being removed. Parboiled white rice is probably the healthiest rice you can eat.

in 2019, I went down to two meals/day
someone said that was intermittent fasting

I did that for a whole year & lost wt
no exercise at all due to lack of energy with fibromyalgia

after that year, I no longer stress eat
somehow my body reset

I grew up in a chaotic family & began stress eating at a young age

I'm so happy the two meal a day cured me!

Make your body learn how to use all that fat.

Neostarwcc said:

It's mostly just stress eating and overeating that got me to be where I am today. I've been stress eating since second grade and I'm almost 36 years old now. So... a long time I've been stuck in this sin. I pray for deliverance and it never comes and I lack the ability to do this without God. I need him. What do I do?

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Did you mention that you're in counseling?

If you are, can you speak with your counselor about that, and how to stop, or channel stress in healthier ways?

This isn't a substitute for improving your diet or for exercising, but it's one of the fronts you need to fight this on.

• Healthier food instead of junk food so you're getting all the nutrients you need.
• Limiting the amount of food that you eat, since a caloric surplus still turns into pounds.
  
• Moving your body more in healthy ways not only to burn calories, but also for strength and endurance.

It's a tall order, but it can be done if you make one permanent lifestyle change to one of these goals that you can live with and sustain, at a time. Something like cutting out soda pop (you don't need the 180-240 calories per drink, or the aspartame in the diet versions), replace it with water or flavored carbonated water (i.e. La Croix or Bubly, Bubly has more flavor between the two). If you're a peanut butter eater, replace the refined peanut butter with natural (the kind you have to stir, it shouldn't have palm oil in it). Doing a walk daily, or mat exercises in front of the TV if you're going to be watching TV anyway. Things like that. Make one change at a time, get used to it, then take on another when you feel you're ready.

Neostarwcc said:

Im such a glutton that im starting to approach eating 4,000 calories a day.

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Because God isn't in control of you; Self is.

Neostarwcc said:

The good news is though is that I haven't been gaining any weight since I was released from the hospital. I still weigh 380 pounds. I mean my doctor says that if I exercised and kept up with that, my risk of health problems including blood clots would significantly decrease. It's my inactivity that's concerning him and the reason I almost died last Janurary from a blood clot in my heart.

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The price of living out from under God's constant control is, in the end, always costly. God warns that sin, which always necessarily results from stepping away from submission to His will and way, produces death - death of fellowship with God, death of joy, peace, self-control, psychological stability, death of relationships, death of physical well-being, and so on, leading, for many, to eternal "death" in hell. (Romans 6:23; Ephesians 6:7-8; James 1:14-15)

Neostarwcc said:

It's gotten me thinking that maybe I should start losing some weight. Even if I only lose 80 pounds I still would be able to move a lot easier. The weather recently has been poopy for walking so I haven't exercised since Wednesday but starting Monday its supposed to be decent out. I mean I eat so much that walking is really my only option. I cannot afford to eat healthy and I'm so addicted

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When we are not ruled by God, excess and addiction become commonplace - as does the harm that such things always cause.

Neostarwcc said:

I don't eat sweets or anything super bad for me unless it's a special occassion otherwise I'd be over 400 pounds by now. It's mostly just stress eating and overeating that got me to be where I am today. I've been stress eating since second grade and I'm almost 36 years old now. So... a long time I've been stuck in this sin. I pray for deliverance and it never comes and I lack the ability to do this without God.

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Deliverance? What do you mean? This may not be the case with you, but "deliverance" for others often means "a sudden escape from the consequences of my sinful choices" and/or "God overrides my will, compelling me to obedience." Neither of these things God will do. God forgives our sin, yes, but this doesn't necessarily entail lifting the consequences of our evil choices. Samson remained blind, dying with the evil Philistines, even though he had repented of his sinful ways; King David lost his child by Bathsheba though he had repented and been forgiven by God for his wickedness; Moses was kept from the Promised Land, having struck the rock in disobedience to God's command, though he had repented of doing so, etc..

Love precludes compulsion. If we are going to walk with God in love, which is the First and Great Commandment (Matthew 22:36-38), it cannot be out of divine compulsion. Love cannot be compelled and be love. And so, God will not possess His child like a demon possesses a person, forcing them to behave as He wants them to. Instead, at every turn, God looks for the agreement of His children to His transformation of them, which they give in their submission to His will and way. Instead, then, of praying for God to eliminate your addiction to food, submit yourself to God, give Him control of your thinking, desires, and conduct, doing so as often as necessary throughout each day, and He will go to work on you, over time subtly but profoundly altering your desires, and thoughts, and behavior such that they conform increasingly to His will and way. This transformation won't, of course, just affect your eating habits but will reform all of your living, with the end goal of bringing you into a deeper, richer knowledge and experience of God.

By this means, I have shed forty-plus pounds in the last two years. No diet plan, no health coach, no calorie-counting, just God in control.

You might talk to your doctor about trying intermittent fasting.
Personally, I started doing intermittent fasting 6 weeks ago, and have lost an average of one pound per week. I don't eat anything after 5pm and the next morning for breakfast I don't eat until 9am and have a scrambled egg using a small amount of olive oil plus 2 slices of bacon with coffee. No sugar in coffee, I use erythritol sweetener, but it can cause stomach problems for some people. Monk fruit or Stevia is also a good substitute for sugar. Also, I do not have any kind of carbs for breakfast, no toast, no cereal, no milk. My intermittent fasting time is 16 hours.
Then I have lunch at about 11:30 am. and usually have a small hamburger or cheeseburger, but no fries. Another thing I totally cut from my diet is soft drinks; now it's only tea, coffee, or water.
For evening meal my wife uses no vegetable oils for cooking; she uses small amount coconut oil or olive oil. I do have bread, and sweet tea, plus I do like to have some kind of sweets like cookies, etc. but no overeating or snacking after meals. I am not a medical person, but the way I understand intermittent fasting is that the goal is to get my body in ketosis part of the day, so it learns to burn both glucose and fat.
I can see myself doing this long term; it is not difficult to do at all.
You might check out some YouTube videos about diet changes that help lose weight. There is a doctor, Dr Ken Berry, who has a YouTube channel about diet changes to lose weight. But first talk to your doctor before you begin making changes in your diet.