Need support, prayer, advice...ANYTHING

[Psalm31]

Hello everyone,

I've got a problem and I know it. I love food. Haha...oh dear. I'm not overweight (130 @ 5' 4") but in the last year I've gained 15 pounds and it I keep eating the way I am I'm going to gain more and become overweight. I just can't seem to stop eating. I love food so much (like yesterday at lunch I ate a turkey sandwhich, 2 hard boiled eggs and then a PB &J all in one sitting). I've watched myself to see when I eat and it doesn't seem to be boredness or stress (I have little of that) so I can't seem to pin it down. I'm going to try and just snack all day long and not have big meals (I think that's how we're supposed to eat anyway) and see if that helps. I just went to the store and bought a bunch of healthy food so at least if I do eat too much it won't be all bad. I also have the worst will power when it comes to food. We usually always have food at work and it always ends up behind my desk because that's the only place there is room. And because it's there I eat it. My biggest issue is with sweets. I love DQ blizzards. I always have too many sweets. I just plain eat too much. LORD help me!

Any suggestions???

I'm so embarrassed by this...

 

[Music4Hym777]

Oh honey, I will be praying for you. I would go to your doctor too, they would know what to do. It might be that you have the start of an eating disorder like Compulsive Overeating, or it might be a chemical or hormonal imbalance.

 

[pockleberry]

dont know if this will help at all but i think it comes under the catagory of anything...the last bit of the article talks about over eating

http://www.soulsista.co.uk/New%20Site/Archive2005.htm#Food

 

[heron]

The thing about sugars, are they take away much of your self control. Your body is put in a position where the blood sugar elevates and drops so quickly, you are left with no energy, and naturally try to boost that again with what worked before. It's not so much a conscious decision as a natural reaction.

You can help yourself by refusing sugars first thing in the morning--even skim milk. Watermelon and strawberries seem to keep my sugar level stable for breakfast, but bananas get me on a roll. I don't have any grains until later in the day, and stick to 1% milk in coffee for the first few hours. When I finally gave up my insistance on caffeine, that helped too. Artificial sweeteners, salt, msg, and caffeine give the same energy highs and lows that will lead you to eat more. (MSG mostly drives you because it irritates the stomach lining.) Someone wrote of these as beating on different organs...stimulants because they're toxic or hard to process.

These sound like normal diet tips, but think of it as making your job easier by avoiding the things that throw the system into a panic.