Why am I fighting with food?

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Registered: 10-16-2005
Why am I fighting with food?
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Mon, 07-24-2006 - 12:56pm

I don't understand. Don't get me wrong, I'm still having a good week. Been excercising like a mad woman and staying on my diet plan. My thing is this..Food seems to have some kind of unearthly power over me. It is a constant struggle trying to fight the cravings for dumb old food. Why is it that all I seem to want to do is eat all the time? I get so jeolous of people who don't struggle with their weight like we do all the time. Food doesn't seem to occupy their minds 24/7 like it does me. Sometimes I feel like....I don't know, I'm just rambling and venting. Thanks for listening to me. This is one of the very few places where I feel like I CAN vent. Maybe by the time I lose all the weight, I'll have learned how to not make food the enemy. For now, its still a battlefield.

Katherine
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Registered: 11-28-2005
Mon, 07-24-2006 - 3:34pm

Katherine,

I can really relate to you. I have the same problem - I almost constantly think about food. Even after just finishing a meal I often think about what the next one will be. I have been reading a book that I find helpful in understanding some of these tendencies - it's called "The Gift of Our Compulsions,” by Mary O'Malley. It helps me to dig a little deeper into why I occupy myself with thoughts of food so much, for most of my life, and what I might be avoiding by this kind of obsessing. Whether you read the book or not, you might try considering the things you might be avoiding by focusing so much on food. I know for me it is pretty significant. But whether or not this is the case for you, I wish you the best and can only suggest staying positive and know that you are making such a significant change by loving yourself (and your family/loved ones) enough to make the effort to get healthy so you can live a long and fulfilling life.

Best of luck to you!

Kristin
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Registered: 01-25-2006
Mon, 07-24-2006 - 5:40pm
You figure it out and let me know okay.....the difference between you and me is you fight them and I can't seem to do that!!! I am not even going to delve into my disasterous eating over the weekend.

Angela


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Registered: 02-06-2006
Tue, 07-25-2006 - 6:33am

I wish I knew the answer to that one... a lot of my problems will be solved. But you know what? I noticed that it gets better with time. A year ago I was constantly thinking about food. It was like a constant craving and it was a fight to see certain items and not eat it. Literaly a fight (major sweats-a-holic here). Don't get me wrong, I still have strong cravings right now and mess up every now and then. But overall I am doing much better. I actually see my husband eating a burger and have no desire to have a bite. So yes it does get way much better with time.


Then of course sometimes I have a different issue with food.. I

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Registered: 03-01-2006
Tue, 07-25-2006 - 2:05pm

Hi, Katherine...


Hope you're feeling better, because I have to share my first impish thought when I saw the title of your post.

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Registered: 10-16-2005
Tue, 07-25-2006 - 3:31pm

This is precisely why I love coming to this board. Everyone here is always very supportive and they know all about the things I struggle with because you are going through the same things. Thank you all so much. I think I will go look for that book that was mentioned in a previous post. Now I gotta go re-read the post though and write down the name of said book because my memory ain't what it used to be. By the way, I'll be back here tonight to report on my weigh in at my WW meeting. Later!

Katherine
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