Just cant stop eating!!!

[taradorff]

OK I have been on here before, i have tried the atkins so many times once I lost 28lbs and once I gained and lost 20 and now I have gained and I have tried to get back on the diet but I just cannot. All I think about is food I just love to eat I live for my meals, when I know I'm gonna have a pizza or ice cream or cake I just get so happy food makes me so happy and its easier then starving I just cant stop today I tried to get back on it and I lasted til 1 in the mornin then went down stairs ate a sandwich like 10 cookies I cant stop what is wrong with me ahhhhhhhhhh when all I wanna do is walk in to a store find something beautiful pick a size 10 try it on it not be tight and feel good I hate clothes god I am 20 and I hate clothes shopping cant find my size then I have the cheek to go and eat at burger king. I want to lose 40 lbs to be my normal weight I feel like giving up am I supposed to be fat feel ugly useless lazy, I know everyone here can understand me. Once my "skinny" cousin said to me gez tara its not that hard eat less and exercise and I really wanted to smack her if it was that easy we would all be skinny!!

[Desertthorn]

taradoff, we know what you mean. I think sometimes doing it all is overwhelming to some of us. So why don't you start with exercise. Make a plan, join a gym, get into the exercise habit and in a month or so when your feeling good about yourself, add Atkins to the mix. There is no reason, on this plan that you can't have the foods that you love.
Last night I had a delicious pizza, it just had a cheese crust. Cream cheese makes a delicious ice cream dessert. There are lots of us on the board who also live to eat, we just make our meals Atkins Friendly. So, check out Food ChitChat and tell us what you like and someone will come up with a suggestion for you.
WE CAN DO THIS!!!

Welcome to the board and great post. Thanks

[tabekat]

you are beautiful at any size

there isn't anything wrong with you tara. just be loving and patient and gentle with yourself. change takes courage and you have plenty of it. can food or any other external stimulus make us happy? I think happiness is a decision I make from the inside out.

[midlightdraco]

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Tara, Hang in there! You sound like a twin, and yes it can feel like nothing that you try works. I am on my second day and I am starting slow. I am not doing the 20 carbs a day thing, but I am slowly working towards it. I am a caffine junkie. I also have kids who eat a lot of carbs, so I have decided to get these foods out of the house for good. I dont keep cookies, or chips or candy in the house most of the time, I do slip up at times, but I know for me I cant have them here. Some of things that I can not avoid having, well its a daily struggle with me. I sometimes eat peanut butter and jelly right out of the jars, isnt that so gross! I feel like I have lost my happiness to food. Now I see all these people in here and they have given me hope. I will keep at it and yes I may fall, but pick myself up and try again. I feel like I keep running into a wall, I just quite havent figured out that I can go over it, or around it and maybe dig under it. Keep trying and take it a meal at a time not a day at a time. It will come to you, just as I am you have to crawl before you can walk. If all else fails, talk to your self, and ask why your eating it and maybe that will help. I do that, when I start to binge, I usually stop after a few bites, the goal will be not to do it at all. Hang in there girl, you will be where you want to be soon enough.
Cindy

[JandLsMom]

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I know its hard. I was the same as you for YEARS. you have to mentally prepare yourself to do this. Once you make up your mind..then STICK to induction..within weeks those cravings will subside and you WILL be able to stick to it. Putting the sugar in your system over and over only creates a vicious cycle. The only way to end that binging cycle is to stop putting it in your body. I am over 60 days into atkins and i havent binged once..which is a true miracle for me since i spent the last 18 yrs of my life binging! Give atkins a try and determine that no matter what..you will stick to it. The first couple weeks it will take willpower..after that..you wont NEED to binge anymore because all the offending foods will be out of your system and the vicious cycle will be OVER. It is for me! Good luck..you CAN beat this!

[2big4mysize]

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so how you doing now?

[April2November]

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I understand taradoff, its out of control, but thanks be to Atkins. Its hard getting back on track but once you're on it again, watch out world!!! I can't go back! 2nd time around and its not worth it. I think the hardest part is just getting back into the full swing of things with atkins doing a clean induction. gotta be sick and tired of being sick and tired. I hope all is well with taradoff and those who are suffering right now. Selah.

[Conchchowder]

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I found this site in desparation. I hoped to talk to someone but the queue to gain acces to posting on the system took so long I was unable to talk to anyone and I just kept on eating.

I have managed to eat three triple cheese burgers from Checkers, 2 orsers of chili chees fries with bacon and onions, a banana and va vanilla milkshake, a can of toffee pitstachios, a can of chocolate walnuts, 3 peanut butter, mayo and sugar sandwiches, a 16" pizza, a pound of steak-ums mixes with an onion and a pound of manchego cheese, 8 scrambled eggs on 16 slices of whole wheat bread...and I'm still hungry.

I can't seem to get back on induction. I figured spilling my guts might help.

I wish the approval process was faster.

[2big4mysize]

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welcome to ADBB conchowder

I think you have the wrong idea about ADBB there is not any one here other then the members of ADBB who are supporting each other, posting our own quyestions celebrating victories with each other and helping new folk learn how to do Atkins. Therer are no counselors her just other folk like you.


If you want to post a question start a topic of your own and folk will reply to you about stuff. When you post in another already old topic folk may miss your message because it was burried in an old topic and think it was a reply to that topic.

To help with your eating you will need to take steps to be personally responsible for yourself. Make a list of why you want to be smaller and control the foods you consume. keep it close to yourself and next time you are feeling the urge to drown your emotions in chilli cheese fries read it and ask yourself are my actions going to help me become the person I want to be or harm me.

while you are contemplating that idea see if you can identify what is triggering your eatting from your food journal where you have been writting down what you eat when you eat it why you ate it who was with you where you were how you felt before during and after you ate and again an hour later. Our brains are very remarkable storage units and many foods mimic the effect of neurotransmitters so if you wrre blue before and ate food X and then the blues lifted your brain will try to assist you next time it thinks you are blue by urgiong you to eat that food and we all have a lot of food history for our brains to search for cures.

Once you have identified your triggerring mechanism (for me a big one was eatting with my younger sister even though I'd stick like glue to plan with her I'd "need" high carb foods later. so I don't eat with her any more.) you too can take steps to avoid them be it places people foods time of day whatever.
Next fix yourself an Atkins emergency kit to help you fight off those high carb food needs. there aremany nonfood itens yoiu can include in there too and keep one with you at all times so you can be prepared cause as we all know failing to plan is planning to fail.

Next deveolp nonfood coping mechanism for whatever is triggering you emotionally. if it is anger exercise is great reuse of the hormones being generated. Some folk use meditation or yoga anything that removes you from the situation and focuses you elsewhere is what you need. hanging around fries waiting to get to post on ADBB isn't going to help you.

Hang in there

[Waterbabe_Helena]

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conchchowder - I think if you let yourself continue to eat as much as you like, but binge only on meat and fat and pints and pints of water there will come a point where you simply cannot eat any more. It's the carbs that make us ravenous. Try it!

[lglg]

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yeah I'm on the same boat
the last few days I have been eating large quanties of food
till I was sick
I it was all protein and fat though
Atkins takes care of some of the binges (carb sugar ones)
but now we have to fight the emotional ones
they are hard to control sometimes
the guilt
the shame the fear
the low selfesteem
I wish I had the anwsers to fighting the psychological binges

[zencyn]

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I wish I had the anwsers to fighting the psychological binges

You and me both!

[Zoe]

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yeah I'm on the same boat
the last few days I have been eating large quanties of food
till I was sick
I it was all protein and fat though
Atkins takes care of some of the binges (carb sugar ones)
but now we have to fight the emotional ones
they are hard to control sometimes
the guilt
the shame the fear
the low selfesteem
I wish I had the anwsers to fighting the psychological binges

Hey Iglg,

You know what causes your binging... why don't you try to do something else every time you feel you'll end up doing it again? Go and have a bath or shower (it always has calming effects), put some makeup on, read slimming magazines, put some music and dance, watch a comedy, talk to a friend, do something that makes you feel good, start writing your thoughts in a diary (by the time you finish writing, the urge for binging will have gone).
You have few pounds to lose. I'm sure you'll feel much stronger (emotionally) when you reach your target.