Stopping Hunger
The increase of over weight people in the United states is a major problem. I am one of those people and have tried several different methods to try and head in the opposite direction. The problem is that I look forward to eating. I just like to eat. It gives me something to look forward to when I have had a bad day. Eating also makes me feel happy for a little while. The problem is after I’m done eating I feel like crying because I have given into that same old temptation. For me it is either ice cream, candy and popcorn. Once I get started I just keep going at it until I have taken down the entire bag myself. It’s difficult for me to control my appetite. Sometimes I feel like never going out in public because I feel ashamed at how I look. It wasn’t until recently that I started to turn things around. I found out a few tricks to help me out.
Suppressing Your Appetite
First I stopped trying to diet. I don’t mean that I stopped trying to eat healthy but I did stop trying to go for long periods of time without eating. I wasn’t until I read an article from the mayo clinic about binge eating that I realized starving myself was not a good plan. What would end up happening is that I would starve myself so much that once I got around food I couldn’t control myself and I would force food down my throat as fast as I could without stopping to think what I was doing. So now I make sure to eat three meals a day and have small somewhat healthy snakes that I carry around with me to hold off starvation.
Another trick is that I have worked hard on is to try and look forward to things other than food. Recently I have started to look forward to my evening walk which not only keeps me busy so that I don’t eat out of boredom but also helps me burn some calories. The last thing that I have found that helps is taking an herbal appetite suppressant. I’m not sure if it is just the placebo affect or something else, but it does seem to be working. The appetite suppressant seems to take some of that edge off that drives me to eat but that is just half the battle. Even though I don’t feel hungry I still want to eat when I have nothing else to do. That is why it is important for me to look for other things to do to keep me busy. I still break down sometimes, but that is alright because addiction is a continuous fight and I can truly say I have an addiction to food. If you are in the same boat as me don’t give up, it’s possible to turn away from food even if it has turned into an addiction for you.