I keep eating even if I'm full

any solutions? i try eating slower, but i'm just a fast eater. How can i Control myself?

I just can't stop D:

Im a fast eater also so what I learned to do was after every bite take big sips of water (all I drink is water) And that seemed to help me feel WAY full faster.

Not a very grand idea but the best I got...lol

 Good Luck

I know they say not to watch TV or read while eating, but maybe if you incorporated an activity into eating - read a paragraph between bites for example, it may make you slow down.  I watch TV during dinner and try to make the meal last 30 minutes.

When you make dinner:

1. Leave all the food in the kitchen
2. Portion the food you are going to eat on a plate
3. Put the rest of the food into storage containers in the refridgerator
4. Walk to the table
5. Sit down and eat
6. Get up & do the dishes, but don't open the refridgerator

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for somereason, that doesnt help....... it just makes me go to bathroom alot more.. HAHA.... but i DO feel fuller, but i think i eat more b/c i know its just water... but i'll keep thatu p :D

 mexico:
i do........ and i'm still eating 3 sandwiches in an hour studying for midterms :(.
lol..... i just eat 24/7... i'm nbot over weight now but now i'm afraid that I WILL BE WHEN I GET OLDER

pgl:

those are for meals right?..... I do that but i can't help opening the fridge XD. haha. i think my probmens eating WAY too fast and eating when i'm not hungry and eating when i'm bored/stressed... yumyum

A year ago I could have wrote the same thread.

What helps a lot is to make sure that you eat properly from all of the food groups every single day.  If your body is not getting the nutruients that it needs, it will keep wanting to be fed until it gets them.

Treat food as a fuel.  It is hard to do at first because we look food as a treat.  It will take a long time to condition yourself to do this.  Once you get the hang of it though it will get easier.

I'm reading a book right now called Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss --- and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by New York Times science writer Gina Kolata. 

It's really interesting - a brief history of what researchers know about obesity and weight loss and how some research never becomes 'accepted wisdom' because it's not what we all want to believe or what we've been taught to believe lo, these many decades.

I'm on the chapter right now about how various hormones and neuropeptides were discovered during the 80s and 90s. You might have heard of some of them, like Leptin (the hormone your fat cells secrete to tell the brain that your body has enough fat and to stop storing it), or Grehlin (the hormone your stomach secretes that tells your brain that your stomach is empty or in other words I'M HUNGRY! GET IN MAH BELLEH!

But there are others like AgRP and PYY and Pyy 3-36 - each of them has a role to play in whether you feel hungry or not -- if you have a lot of PYY in your system, you simply will not feel hungry - end of story. 

Throughout the book there are examples of people who have come to the attention of one doctor or another because they have this sort of experience where they could literally eat all day and still feel hungry and become extremely obese and the doctors study them and find out that they have a genetic defect of one kind or another -- some don't make leptin, some do make leptin but the leptin pathway in the brain is blocked, etc., etc.

I haven't finished the book yet, but I'm about to reach the conclusion that asking most people to lose weight by restricting calories would be akin to asking someone who hasn't had any water in 2 days to refrain from drinking any of the water that would pour from the tap if they turned it on.  We don't think people can resist the urge to drink water if they are thirsty, but we expect them to resist the urge to eat if their body is telling them they are hungry.

And because everyone has the egocentric idea that whatever they feel must be exactly the same as what someone else feels, we blame the people who eat when we tell them they shouldn't.

So, sorry I don't have a solution for what you're going through. In my own experience, I find that if I eat more protein and healthy fats, more veggies and fruits and just avoid grains and sugars, I tend not to feel hungry.  But I have a specific set of genetic information in my DNA that won't be exactly like yours.  So what will work for you might be different, meaning that the only advice I can offer is to try different things until you find what works for you.  Be as scientific about it as possible.  Write down what you eat and how you feel.  You're the best expert on YOU that you're ever going to find!

:)

Maybe you should try to count your calories? I have the same problem & I started counting my calories before I eat each meal.  It helps me realize how much I should eat. Not sure if this is much help, but good luck! 

I was having the same problem, especially with lunch hour, so I started making my lunches and snacks in the morning and taking them with me. The idea being that if I am not near the fridge (cupboard, whatever), then I won't be tempted to fill myself right up. I also go to the gym on my lunch hour, so I only have about half the time I used to have for lunch, but my frequent small snacks keep me from feeling hungry and usually by the time I have dinner at night, I just want something small.

Hope it helps.

I think its all about mind set.  Your reply email was just full of excuses to bat away the suggestions other people made.  (Sorry, that sounds really harsh, its not meant to be ....... read on........)

I'm reading a book now that's all about changing the way you think.  Its not a diet book, its not about counting calories or working out (all of which are necessary to lose weight), its about getting rid of those thoughts that allow you to keep doing the same thing over and over and over.  Its called something like the Beck Diet Solution or Beck Diet Principle -- just google Beck and diet, I'm sure you'll find it.

I am in my 30s and you are right about dealing with a slowing metabolism!!! I ate like a horse in my 20s and was able to burn it all off.  In my 20s, I was a size 6/8.  Now in my 30s, eating the same way, I went up to a size 10, and was heading towards a size 12. 

So this book has helped me to change the way I think about food.  Its not about dieting, which is temporary.  Its about getting control of habits that you think are uncontrollable.  Anytime you think "I can't help it" or "that's just the way I am" - learn to call BS on yourself.

Its hard.  Good luck!!!!!!!

Put the fork or spoon DOWN in between mouthfuls. That will slow you down at least a little.

(also, if you're not fat, why are you worrying about it? You've got to be doing SOMETHING right! Some people are nibblers, some people are snackers, and some people are 'eat more less often'... ) 

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Put a pre-decided amount of food on your plate, when youre done eating pop in some gum or brush your teeth.  Then immediately clean up your kitchen.  This helps keep your mouth busy while you put the food 'out of sight, out of mind'.

I guess this is going to take time........

 

but could lack of exercize make me eat MORE?.... b/c over the summer, i do tennis 3 hours a day 3-4 times a week and other stuff inbetween and I think I ate less and was satifsfied earlier.....

but right now, unfortunately, exercize is not an option for me...... D:...
basicially b/c I'm not in the mood b/c its school year.

 

 

thanks guys...... for your time and ideas

 

 

 

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how can i control myself? bette.r...tips?

Yes, exercise helps decrease your appetite. If you do not eat enough to cover the energy cost of the exercise, though, you could be triggered into overeating later.

On how to control yourself, you're just going to have to decide that "YES, I can control myself! And I WILL." There really is no magic trick to prevent overeating if you don't care enough to stop. My advice would be to try to find the root cause of your overeating: is it because it's habit, you are stressed/anxious about something else, or because you are bored? Take care of that, and it will be easier to stop overeating.  

What if it's

stress+ anziousness+ boredness+ tiredness+ laziness+ i like to eat XD?
Is there a certain solution:?

Since you say you feel full yet you keep eating anyway, this doesn't sound like it's about appetite or being hungry. I would like to suggest you are an emotional eater. You are studying for midterms, so you are under stress. You say you eat when you're not hungry ... you eat when you are bored or stressed.

During my first marriage, when things were going south, I found myself sabotaging my diet by wolfing down an entire box of dry cereal (healthy cereal, yes - but an entire box) each night before bedtime. I eventually figured out that it was no coincidence that I reached for the cereal during the hours after the kids were in bed, and before bedtime: it was when my first husband was home, and we would be alone. I crunched away on that cereal as a way to stuff down my anger, and avoid screaming at him.

Needless to say, once I learned to stop using food to express my emotions, all heck broke loose in our marriage and it ended a few years later. :-(

I've thought about this over the years, and I recognize that when I was growing up, if I was upset or anxious or stressed or sad, my mom's knee-jerk response was to offer me food. I have memories of my mom making wonder-bread sandwiches with butter and sugar when I was sad.

I have a wierd memory of my mom being upset that my dad was late, I must've only been 3 or 4, and she was pacing, anxiously, in the living room looking out the window for his car to finally appear. I remember that she took out an entire box of full-size Milky Ways and we shared them.

I have lots of memories of going on long-distance car trips each summer, three of us kids getting cranky by late afternoon, and my mom declaring "it's 4:00 - time for a Dairy Queen stop!!" and we'd laugh because sure enough there'd be a DQ just around the next corner.

I have memories of my mom keeping a stash of M&M's, and when any of us kids whined, she'd dole them out like valium.

Maybe you have memories like this too? Once I started connecting all these dots, it occurred to me that I was raising my own kids the exact same way. I've mostly fixed this, but it was HARD. My knee-jerk response when they are sad, upset or angry is to open the fridge and offer up treats.

So what do you do about it? You learn better ways to deal with your emotions. If you are bored, you go find something to do that doesn't involve food. If you are stressed, try meditating or journaling or talking to a friend or yoga or a hot bath. If you are angry, air your anger verbally or in a journal or even punch a pillow. If you are anxious, try deep breathing and visualization.

It doesn't get cured overnight.... I've been working on it for 13 years now. I'm still nowhere near perfect. For a long time, I replaced smoking with food and would reach for a cig instead, which is just as bad.  But it does get easier over time.  

After dinner, I immediately brush my teeth. That way I don't go for seconds or dessert. It's worked for me. It's like it sends a signal to my brain that I'm done. :)

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stress+ anziousness+ boredness+ tiredness+ laziness+ i like to eat XD?
Is there a certain solution:?"

There are solutions to stress, anxiousness, boredom, and tiredness, but so far there is no solution for laziness. The only "cure" for laziness is motivation and determination-- which I'm sure you didn't want to hear-- and no one can make you motivated except yourself. Good luck, I'm sure you'll get it soon with some effort.

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

I'm reading a book right now called Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss --- and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by New York Times science writer Gina Kolata.

It's really interesting - a brief history of what researchers know about obesity and weight loss and how some research never becomes 'accepted wisdom' because it's not what we all want to believe or what we've been taught to believe lo, these many decades.

I'm on the chapter right now about how various hormones and neuropeptides were discovered during the 80s and 90s. You might have heard of some of them, like Leptin (the hormone your fat cells secrete to tell the brain that your body has enough fat and to stop storing it),

If anyone is interested in learning more about Leptin.  There are a few videos on the Howard Hughes Medical Institute website by Dr. Friedman -- the man who discovered Leptin.  The audience was High School students (albeit exceptionally intelligent students).  I highly recommend the videos.  The website says that it requires RealPlayer 10.5 to view the videos.  Here are the links:

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/obesity/le ctures.html  Lecture 1 and Lecture 4 were Dr.Friedman's lectures on leptin.

There is a 3rd lecture on leptin by Dr. Friedman available here:  http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/obesity/ta lks.html

It took me a year to get my portion control right.  The way I do it is weigh and measure my food on the plate, then sit down to eat.  When it's gone I wash the plate.  No second helpings.  If I'm still hungry, I have some raw vegetables and water.  It takes time and patience, but you can do it.