Posted by Kacy on July 14, 2004, at 22:26:41
In reply to Re: I have *got* to stop overeating. » partlycloudy, posted by Dinah on July 14, 2004, at 8:27:09
I’ve fought escalating overeating with… meals.
When I wanted more food–and what I really wanted was the desserts I had built up a taste for–then I just ate another meal. It didn’t cause more weight gain than desserts, and I got more nutrition from it. I focused on meat and vegetables, even if the veggies were yams or potatoes. (Neither of those two alone; steamers cook those in no time with little mess.) If I ate dessert first, and a lot of it, I ate meals anyway. It has helped me more than once, even before I began an ssri.
Effexor seemed to cut off the “you’re full” message. (I also don’t seem to know how hungry I am before I begin eating.) I was wolfing down food without realizing it. I was always the last one to finish a meal before Effexor, and I often didn’t finish the whole thing. Now I can finish a meal and still be hungry. I just couldn’t see it, even though I looked around and saw others still eating after I had finished, and even though I brought home fast food and had it finished before I got here. The best guess I have is that I ate until I was full my whole life and it has been inconceivable not to do that. I just couldn’t see it as overeating.
My plan for that has been to focus on… chewing. I chew and chew. Maybe I wasn’t getting enough nutrition out of my food, despite the increased volume, because I was eating so fast. That could have kept my appetite up. I have been enjoying food more and haven’t looked for more food when I finished. I’ve even delayed eating sweets afterward. (Before, I could never eat a dessert right after a meal. I could eat a lot of it; I just couldn’t eat it until later.) It’s helping. I’m dropping closer to my regular weight.
I also make sure that if I’m indulging, it’s with treats with nutritional value. No empty calories. If I’m going to gain, I might as well gain weight on healthy food.
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