I’m hungry but I’m trying to lose weight.

Sleep

R1 is 1000% right. People who get a full nights sleep tend to eat less. And if you’re really hungry at night, just go to bed.

Eat an entire cabbage with a little bit of feta. Volume eating is where it's at.

I amend my suggestion slightly:

Drink a glass of water and then sleep.

R4 I do have a small bladder.😒

I really want a candy bar, a sandwich and potato salad!😭

Eat a pickle.

Or jack off.

R7 OMG you’re right! I have a jar of pickles in the basement! Thanks for reminding me!

Daily brisk walks help suppress appetite. The key word being BRISK. Slow, aimless walking is worthless.

Eat some roughage, like a taco with cabbage in it.

Fruit

Promise yourself a big breakfast and then realize the quickest way to get to the big breakfast is to go to sleep right now.

I had 3 pickles and that helped a lot. But I’m still craving real food.

SLEEP, fool.

R15 I’m not tired.😕

OP, do you want your family, friends and co-workers to continue to make fun of your looks behind your back? Stay out of the kitchen and anywhere else around your home you have stashed food for easy access.

I bought a new flavor of frozen yogurt, peaches and cream, earlier, and all I can think of is it sitting there unopened in the freezer.

Stop buying that shit. Buy roughage.

Take off your shirt and stand infront of a mirror if you're hungry.

Point your chin towards your chest and see how many chins you have.

Now go have a lettuce leaf and a cigarette.

Ask yourself "what would Chrissie Metz do?", then do the opposite.

I recently met with a dietician and while we were going over goals, she said I needed to start eating breakfast (which I’ve never been able to do) and she suggested I need more protein so a protein shake for breakfast. I grimaced because I told her previously I don’t like sweets and the thought of a chocolate, strawberry, or French vanilla shake for breakfast sounded 🤢.

She said, well that’s ok, they have savory options now, like chicken. And I stared at her and said, chicken, like a creamy, milky, chicken shake?

Apparently it’s more like a thick warm broth.

But she also asked me what I ate for snacks and I said apples. Just apples, clementines, pears, and grapes. Good right? She said, oooh that’s a lot of sugar. And she made me pick alternatives so now I’m only allowed to eat baby cucumbers and green beans as snacks.

Take a sleeping pill and go to bed. Cabbage and feta plus water is a horrible combo and will have you running to the John all night.

R22 I thought sugar was fine as long as it was natural?😳

I’m so hungry but I don’t want to end up looking like Divine.🙁

R23, the fat is shat, and that is a fact.

I want a candy bar 🍫, a sandwich 🥪 , and potato salad with a glass of milk 🥛!

😭

I shouldn’t have went to the grocery store yesterday.

[quote] R22] I thought sugar was fine as long as it was natural?😳

Like everything, it’s fine in moderation. But she was a dietician and all about eating as much protein and green vegetables and eliminating as much sugar as possible, so she thought I was eating too much fruit. 🤷🏻

My solution for getting more protein into my diet was spicy V-8 with a splash of Worcestershire and hot sauce, with a scoop of pea protein and a couple spicy, pickled green beans, lemon and lime wedges, and a stalk of celery.

I was on an early morning work zoom and instinctively picked it up to take a sip and someone said “are you drinking a Bloody Mary at 9am at work?!” And I calmly replied, no, it’s a protein shake.

Still waiting to hear from HR about that, though.

[quote] R22]] I thought sugar was fine as long as it was natural?😳

Oh, I forgot to mention. She asked how many apples I was eating and I said, four. At a time.

And her eyes got real wide.

Smoke

A small cup of tea or bowl of broth. Maybe a fiber biscuit. Warm liquid can have a satiating effect on the stomach, but obviously not too much liquid at night.

I wish Rescue Chick was here to tell me “calories shmalories” like she has said in the past so I could have permission to be a pig.

I’m going to finally going to try going to bed since I’m finally starting to feel tired.

You sort of need to feel hungry to lose weight. So learn to tolerate a little hunger once in a while. Good luck losing your extra weight. It’s way harder to lose it than to gain it.

Sweet dreams, OP.

Nigella knows her shit and this is truly a wonderful salad. For later.

.,.,

I could never do what Christian Bale and other actors do. Put on 70 lbs for a role and then take it off like it was nothing? Ten years and I’d be lucky to lose 20 lbs.

He’s gonna die of a massive coronary event.

Carbs will make you hungry. Cut them out.

It’s hard to cope with being uncomfortable but it’s necessary for your goals. Eat protein and sparkling water.

God, you guys are slow, go suck some dick, it'll take your mind off food 😜

Eating is just a habit. The more you avoid it, the more it becomes easier to avoid.

Just stick with the limited eating and your body will get used to it.

[quote] "Promise yourself a big breakfast and then realize the quickest way to get to the big breakfast is to go to sleep right now."

And then walk to and from the restaurant where you intend to have that breakfast.

R22/R31 aww your diet sounds ok to me, quite nice actually.

Until you said you didn’t like sugary sweet foods, I was going to call you a Fae. People with Fae blood crave confections, and need sugar to maintain emotional balance.

As someone with disordered eating habits and depressive tendencies going back years, questions and thread like these really stump me. Reflexively and despite knowing better, I’m just like idk only eat one meal? Intermittently fast til past noon? Eat a spoon of peanut butter? Drink Sun Tea until you shit blood?🤷‍♀️

[quote] "Eating is just a habit. The more you avoid it, the more it becomes easier to avoid. Just stick with the limited eating and your body will get used to it."

This is actually very true. The less you eat, the easier it becomes over time. Just avoid developing an eating disorder.

Some people live to eat and others eat to live. Be the later. I'm so glad I was never much of a foodie

Always know when I’m in my follicular phase, because my usual low appetite suddenly flames up, so I graze all day and want to eat everything in sight (sometimes gross or primal things). Just the body’s ancient way of saying, “feed and protect these eggs!”, I guess.

This probably isn’t an issue for OP, though.

^ As soon as my jeans get tight I automatically shut down the eating. It's not even a conscious effort, when I'm feeling bloated and uncomfortable I just stop eating

Life is a banquet

^ Yeah of dicks and ass 😜

What are the FAT WHORES doing up so early on a Saturday morning?

I think meth is very effective for weight loss but the schizophrenic episodes won't be worth it. Just stick to high protein/high fat/low carb diet plan, OP. And only 2-3 meals with no snacks or brunches in between.

Drink some La Croix, sweetie.

@r52, "What are the FAT WHORES doing up so early on a Saturday morning? "

Making waffles 😛

@r53, "but the schizophrenic episodes won't be worth it"

Now wait just a minute, ever see a fat schizo? 🤔

What works for me is vividly imagining that whatever food I’m craving has been covered in ants, touched by dirty hands, etc. I lose my appetite pronto.

^ Yeah, that keeps me out of most restaurants

Go to bed early. That’s the only thing that works for me.

Hi Op Sleep is of course a great idea, but if you’re really hungry or feeling the cravings, you can’t sleep. I know what you’re going through. You’re hungry even if you’ve eaten, you find yourself eating food you don’t even want I. Order to feel “right” the cravings for carbs, sugar etc is making you nuts. I went through all of this. I made an appointment at my local hospital‘s obesity clinic. You should too. Don’t be turned off by the word obesity, it’s just a word. I’m not THAT fat and you probably aren’t either, but that’s the place with the people who have the skills and knowledge to treat this. It IS a medical issue. I was told the problem is with stabilizing my blood sugar levels, it bounces around and that’s what causes my problems. There are a number of medications you can take, most are oral. I opted for an injectable called Victoza. Victoza is normally used by diabetics as an adjunct to insulin. It’s used to stabilize blood sugar levels and is safe for non diabetics to take. It comes in a pen. You twist on a needle assembly- it’s a teeny tiny barely there needle. You twist the end of the pen to the proper dosage and then push on it to do the injection. The needle assembly then twists off and you toss it out. I can’t emphasize enough how easy and painless this is. AND IT WORKS! I’ve been using it for three months now. Lost 25 pounds and counting. Cravings gone, constant hunger gone, eating to feel “right” gone. Victoza does not make you lose weight, only you can make you lose weight. What it does is level the playing field so you can do what you need to in order to lose weight. Anyway, you probably think you’re issues with hungar and cravings are your fault and you blame yourself. The fact is, what they are is a medical issue so treat it as such. Make the appointment. As I said there are a number of medications you can use. They talked to me about all of them and let me choose what I thought would be best for me. Good luck! I never thought dealing with my cravings would be so doable. I was so tired of going to war every day with my body. Who knew the solution was to easy?!

Wow, R60, thanks a bunch!

OP, stop eating flour products, chips, sugar and alcohol.

The pounds will literally melt off.

R61 R60 here. You’re welcome! R62 You are of course 100 percent correct, but if cravings get in the way it’s impossible to do this for more than a few days. I tried to treat this as nutrition thing, eat healthy and all will be well, but it just didn’t work - and this is someone who LIKES water packed tuna from the can, someone for whom low fat cottage cheese with some cucumber slices is a favorite snack! It just wasn’t helping with the cravings. Not that I’m doing Victoza, I can eat healthy, avoid all the bad stuff you mentioned and yes, the weight melts off.

I drink green tea throughout the day.

R60 do you self-inject Victroza daily or EOD? Weekly? And in what dose?

Can confirm that SI sounds scary but isn’t, as someone who does it with liquid cobalamin 4 times a week (for neuropathy of as-yet unknown origin). After the first several to dozen squeamish attempts, it becomes second nature and nbd.

Start knitting. Tom Daley is not fat, now is he?

Do keto.

It takes quite a while to retrain your body not to eat crap. Our food is processed with things that make us crave it. What you need to do is walk daily, drink 5 to 8 glasses of water, consume more salads and vegetables and get a decent nights sleep. If you do this you can build good habits. You have to want to stop eating donuts….. The rest is just whining. Get to work princess.

OP, start counting calories of everything you eat.

Once you do that, it’s easier to convince yourself that “one harmless snack” is not harmless.

If you're hungry you're either not eating enough calories or what you're eating isn't nutritious enough.

Eat string cheese every time you want a snack.

Slices of Pink Lady, to satiate the apetite.

Make a big batch of soup. You can have it for dinner and during the day if you go hungry.

If the weather is too hot have a green salad instead, and snack on things like carrot sticks or cucumber. I like to snack on green apple slices sprinkled with salt and red chili powder.

There is this famous cabbage soup in Eastern Europe that helos with weight loss and hunger pangs. Basically, you grate one cabbage, some carrots, celery, parsley, grated tomatoes (added 15 minutes before end of boiling) and whatever spices you prefer. Boil until veggues are soft, refrigerate and eat every time you feel hungry between meals. It's a vitamin bomb, not bad tasting and it really fills you up, especially if you warm it up before consumption. It also helps to lose any retained fluids.

R29 bear in mind that many dieticians and nutritionists have eating disorders. A good one who is healthy and eats intuitively is worth their salt, but for every one of those there's three who are not.

[quote][R22]/[R31] aww your diet sounds ok to me, quite nice actually. Until you said you didn’t like sugary sweet foods, I was going to call you a Fae. People with Fae blood crave confections, and need sugar to maintain emotional balance.

Yeah, I thought I ate pretty healthy, but was quite slightly (ever so slightly) anemic and got referred to the dietician.

I was a long-time vegetarian but always careful about (thinking) I was getting enough protein. I quit being a vegetarian more than 10 years ago, but still will eat like one a lot of the time. Hardly ever eat red meat, and probably had too many starchy vegetables. So the protein is supposed to help absorption of iron and I need to eat more green leafies like spinach and kale (which I already did).

But I’m curious about Fae people eating. If I ate more sweets, would I develop microwave hands and attract vampire lovers like Sookie Stackhouse? Because I’m not opposed.

Get yourself some amphetamines! They give you energy, lower your appetite, perk up your mood, and get a sluggish metabolism moving.

Drink water. Sometimes, you're actually thirsty when you think you're hungry.

OP here. I haven’t eaten since those pickles last night and I’m only going to have a sandwich and some potato salad for dinner this evening and that will be it for the day (no candy bar 😕).

I’ll have to try those recipes some of you posted.

Ah, protein. My straight weightlifting sister is always telling me to get more. I'm a meat and dairy-eater (goat's milk more or less daily, where money permits organic local grassfed meat a few times a week), plus I like my peas and fish and nuts regularly too, so idk how I can be deficient? Yet she's insistent that I am, and that I desperately need a daily disgusting shake to supplement. Am sceptical, but open to someone changing my mind with convincing evidence.

R80, it really depends on whether you're training and how intensely. A heavy-duty weighlifter and a normal person have very different protein needs. But if you want, spirulina is a great source of protein. You can drink it as tea or put it in your salad, it tastes like nothing.

Learn to have your biggest meals for breakfast and lunch and your lightest meal for dinner. Do not have any snacks after dinner. Once your body adapts to this you won't be hungry at night and you will lose weigh more efficiently.

I binged tonight. I ate two sandwiches, two servings of potato salad, had a soda, a candy bar, some candy, and some potato chips.😑

Oh well.

There's no "in training" about it R83.

You're a [bold]fat whore[/bold].

I stopped being ravenous at night after I started eating a proper breakfast.

Ignore what you want and eat what you need.

Is there a vitamin or something that inspires hunger in the morning rather than night? I never want food until noon, it seems unappealing and sickening before then. Plus I am usually sluggish and unmotivated in the mornings to do anything, let alone fight my roommates just to get a little kitchen space and time. Yes, being depressed and living like a lodger doesn’t help, but I think I’ve never liked morning meals much. Brunch is ok, though.

^ Me too, the thought of food makes me sick until I've been up a couple of hours 🤮

I've lost almost 39 pounds since June. It takes a long time for the cravings to fade but they never go away completely. When I still get a craving I say FUCK MY CRAVINGS and I just wait for the craving to pass - it does quickly in less than an hour. I weigh myself EVERYDAY that has made a big difference in keeping the weight off. If my weight is up the in the morning I cut back on my calories for that day.

It never stops being a struggle and it is hard work but it's worth it.

Beauty is pain.

Accept this fact, and you'll be fine.

I don’t eat breakfast and frequently go to 4 pm before lunch (which also serves as dinner). I’m told it’s so unhealthy, but I can’t control what my stomach wants and doesn’t want.

On the rare occasion I do eat breakfast, I’ll end up skipping lunch and doing something really miserable like eating dinner at 11:30 pm.

R91

What you are doing is intermittent fasting and who the fuck is telling you it it is not healthy?

Eating most of your daily intake late and going to sleep with a full stomach counteracts any benefits intermittent fasting would have.

🤣 Not MY problem, bitches !

I'm the same as R91--I don't have an appetite during the day, but am always hungry after 7:00.

OP here. At midnight, I’m officially going to get serious again and go back to my diet. I’ve been going through a stressful time and that was why I was binging. But I’m determined to get back on track now. I’ll keep you all updated.

Drink a ton of water, but not enough to permanently expand your stomach. Drink diet sodas and 0 calorie energy drinks when you’re tired. Munch on oatcakes when you’re hungry. Smoke cigarettes.

- Eating disorders are a bitch.

[quote]I don’t eat breakfast and frequently go to 4 pm before lunch

Eat a piece of cheese during that time. It’s good protein and it’ll fill you up til dinner.

Put the EDIBLES down.

I live by the saying “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”. You should do the same OP.

Stop lying R93 it does not. I eat at 9 every night and go to bed at 11 and you can file your nails on my stomach.

R101 There is a woman at my job who is around age 60 and eats a bagel with cream cheese every morning and yet is as thin as a rail. That doesn't work that way for 90% of people.

Helps having Saturn rising. I have it in my natal astrology, and though I'm not skinny, I have a low appetite, and even at my biggest and slobbiest and most greedy can't seem go over a certain weight. A tendency to prefer dry, bland and healthy foods. It also makes me look lighter, bonier and skinnier that I actually am in reality.

Bone broth

R102 so your contention is that one cannot eat at night nor in the morning?

Who are these 90% and from what studies are you getting your statistics?

OP here. Believe it or not I lost a pound! And I only ate dinner last night - no snacks or other meals. Let’s hope I lost another pound in the morning when I weigh myself.🤞🏼

R106 the first 3 or so pounds are water weight as your fat cells begin the shrinking process. Keep it up.

OP, you really should ask your doctor for some amphetamines. If he won’t give them to you, find one who will. They really are the answer. My mother took them for years and years. She was always very trim.

Stick to eating low carb foods. I’ve lost a ton of weight during Covid. I eat at night. No daytime appetite. Keep your carbs under 100 a day. WALK! Get ten thousand steps. An hour and a half a day. You can do this. It’s all about focus. I haven’t been thin since I was a kid. I’ll NEVER GO BACK TO BEING FAT. I want to Liiiiiiiive!

Try Michael Moseley’s book The Fast 800. It has really worked for me. I’ve had weight problems all my life, but I look and feel so much better since following this regime. It has been a huge success in the UK.

Chew gum

OP/R79 Ditch the sammies for awhile, at least until you near your goal. Make a lettuce or cabbage wrap instead. I had some chicken salad yesterday, and really wanted bread, but I resisted. Didn't miss the bread once I began eating. In place of candy bars, choose a Munk Pack bar, or other Keto bar with no added sugar. Many are as good as candy, once you adjust your palate.

Potato salad, and milkshakes with ice cream should be out of your rotation as well. Have either a weight-loss sugar free shake, or protein powder if you're working out.

Drink as much unsweetened tea and water as you can. Coffee as well.

take laxatives

Believe me, OP, you can drop 75kg right quick if you're really motivated. Or if you're about to get slapped with a cancellation.

chew and then spit it out. don't swallow.

Look up “ghrelin” and “the hunger hormone.”

You may find it easier to wait out the times that your ghrelin levels are high once you know and understand what’s going on in your body.

OP These are delicious as well, and the chocolate varieties are similar in flavour to BarNone candy bars.

^sorry, from R112

Buy a jar of unsalted, roasted peanuts. When you feel starving, pour out a *small* portion in a separate dish, close the lid, and put the container away. Eat the peanuts, one at a time. When done, drink some water. In a short while, you won't feel hungry and will have consumed only a small amount of calories, mostly protein, no starch, no sugar. It works.

It works means only it worked for R119, not that it will work for you.

Every body is different. On keto I feel like I am starving to death. What 'works' for me are carbs, even two saltines. I need that starch to feel satiated. You need to find what 'works' for you.

What's the update OP? you lose any pounds?

r119 I usually avoid peanuts and other nuts when trying to lose weight. That method works if you are very disciplined and only eat a small portion. Most people eat way over the recommended serving size and plus they are high in calories.

OP, the simple answer is to cut carbs. Once your liver burns up the stored sugar and starts burning fat for fuel, your hunger pangs go away. And it only takes about 2-3 days before you're not really hungry at all.

Peanuts are actually a legume, not a nut. It's better to eat healthier nuts with low or no sodium like almonds, brazil nuts, hazelnuts, macadamia, pecans as they are higher in omega 3 fatty-acids which are better if you want to lose weight and reduce inflammation.

Fiber pills. Take 5 before each meal and you won't be as hungry. And you'll poop better, too.

Re all the nut wisdom above, I'm the one who eats a CAPFUL of peanuts, unsalted, no sugar, to stave off hunger. There is no problem with it getting "out of control," because the container is safely closed and put away before any peanuts are eaten. The peanuts are eaten ONE at a time. I have not eaten a meal of any kind, including peanuts, after 2 p.m., period for over 100 days. I have lost 47 pounds since January 23, 3 and a half months. Talk about "what works" all you want, I've lost the fucking weight and I fully intend to keep on going with it. -R119

R126, so you eat between what time?

R125 Here's a bottom who knows what he's talking about. But PLEASE make sure you drink enough water if you start popping fiber pills.

[quote] a CAPFUL of peanuts

How much is that? U.S. measurements are so confusing. Taken me years to figure out what a 'cup' means.

^Weirdly enough, I go to bed hungry as hell every night (you do get used to it, incredibly), and then when I wake up early in the morning, I don't feel hungry (at all) for a few hours. I usually eat breakfast around 10, and I make sure that I've finished "lunch" (which is really dinner now, a complete, but normal-size meal) by 2:30. So I'm only eating between about a 6 hour window. I started this out of frustration, after having gone on a good diet the Monday after New Years, no alcohol, no junk food, and exercise an hour every day: after 3 weeks of that, I had lost 3 fucking pounds, so I pitched an inner tantrum and decided to just stop eating supper, just to see what would happen. I lost 20 pounds the first month...It's no party, but it sure is getting the damn job done. -R119

^I ended up cutting starches out of my diet, because they induce blood sugar/hunger crashes. No sugar, no desserts, I've had 2 beers in 4 months, that's it for alcohol. It takes a LOT LESS food now to make me feel stuffed, too. It's a weird, but interesting experience, and I had never considered something like this, ever, nor have I EVER willingly missed a meal in my life until now.

r130, I can't go to bed hungry, it's so miserable. I do pretty much the inverse and fast in the mornings, it works better for me. I dont feel as much hunger when I'm at work because Im occupied. I have coffee and tea in the morning, and small snack for lunch. I've never really cared for lunch; I don't get my colleagues who go out for large sumptuous lunches several times a week. Its such an interruption to my workday and Im sleepy for the rest of the afternoon after consuming a large meal. I prefer to have a nice full dinner at home where I can enjoy it and its also healthier when I prepare my own food.

Order phentermine off the internet. It's like an anaesthetic for the appetite.

R126

And I have lost it and kept it off while eating bread, pasta and rice, in limited quantity.

Peanuts work for you, a slice of buttered toast works for me.

OP here. I had been doing good and eating reasonably, but I binged again this weekend! I’m starting to realize these binges mostly happen on weekends when I’m not busy and have nothing to keep me occupied. Oh well. I’ll try to go back to being good on Monday.

A wee tip from me. Brush your teeth earlier than normal. I often find that I wanna have a cookie or something around 8pm which is bad and unnecessary. So instead of brushing my teeth prior to bed, ill brush my teeth at 8pm instead. Because I find that such a chore, it puts me off having something to eat as I don't want to have to brush my teeth again.

I have no problem brushing my teeth again but I would rather a glass of wine before bed than a cookie.

Lost a fair bit of weight during lockdowns, due to a health issue (neuropathy), under-eating from stress, and unwitting IF/calorie deficit (too depressed and anxious to eat often or enough). Bit of a fraught experience, and left me with unhealthy hair & brittle crumbling nails, social problems, and poor mood as well as another agoraphobic spell—but hey, at least I looked skinny and cute!

Am gradually putting it back on now. Might cut wheat out again or go back to eating only between 12/1PM-7PM, see how I do.

Another good tip for boosting your metabolism, if you work at a desk all day, is to try to go out and do a 10-minute walk every 2 hours. Ten minutes doesn't seem like much but cumulatively it will activate whatever it is that makes you hungry during the day. I do one hour of hard exercise 6 days a week, but during the work week, I try to get in 4 or 5 of those 10 minute walks every day also. It makes a difference.

Take a look in the mirror OP.

I have tied to replace my snacks with healthie choices. And I measure things. So there are no potato chips in my house. I have a bag of almonds and I'll have about 7-8 as a snack. I have crackers. I have celery sticks. Believe me 3-4 crackers will satisfy. No cheese at night. I buy multi grain high fiber bread. I might have a piece of toast and a small cup of tea. I use whipped cream cheese instead of butter. I may eat a very small bowl of cereal. One that has high fiber and very low sugar like Grapenuts or honey nut cheerios. Three inches of a banana. A few slices of an apple. Sometimes I'll eat a half of a medium sized Granny Smith with a tablespoon of peanut butter. Good peanut butte that's made with peanuts so not Jif. I get Trader Joes own peanut butter. It's less than $3 a jar and it is peanuts. No sugar or additives. Almond butter is good too. It's about choices.

One more thing. A cup of bullion and three or four crackers is also a good snack.

Stick to anti-inflammatory and neutral/alkaline foods. No acids, musts, preservatives or sugars. A very bland and tasteless diet.

It’s how pro-atheletes stay so slim. It’s all plain chicken and green leaves, no dressing, flavoured water etc.

What bullshit you spout R143.

OP, hunger is a moral defect.

You must learn to despise food, and only eat it in small enough quantities to sustain basic health and not descend into anorexia.

A lot of good advice on this thread, but giving up drinking...it's one of my few coping mechanisms left! I know it's for the best, but whenever I quit drinking, I miss it like crazy (pathetic, I know..)

^It's true of most everyone. The older you get, the harder it becomes to lose weight if you drink. I went on a "no-carb" diet for a while, no starches, no sugar, etc., and allowed myself to have TWO mixed drinks on Saturdays, and that was it for alcohol. Exercising at least an hour a day, weights and jogging. The result: No weight lost. If I cut out those 2 drinks, weight would come down 1 to 1.5 pounds a week. It's illogical, the 2 drinks were probably 800 calories, but that's how it went long enough for me to learn that if I wanted to lose the weight, the alcohol (including wine with dinner) HAD to go.

I took the advice of someone on DL months back and just stopped eating sugar. That is the only change I made and the pounds fell off. Give it a try. If you are hungry at night open a can of black olives.

Alcohol is FULL of "sugar." Beer has a higher glycemic index than table sugar, it is just about the "sweetest" food people consume, in terms of how rapidly it is converted into glucose in the bloodstream

I concur with the booze statement.

If you want to lose weight, cut out ALL alcohol. No exceptions.

You also have to cut out all simple carbs (sugar, flour products, any kind of chip.)

But a lot of dieters binge on fruit. CUT OUT ALL FRUIT TOO. It acts just like sugar in your body.

Cut out potatoes too (and anything made from potatoes: chips, tots, fries, etc.)

Cut out all processed/prepared foods. Nothing from a can. No frozen dinners.

Your diet should basically be meat, eggs, and a sprinkling of vegetables. You can also add some full-fat cheese and cream, but in moderation.

And avoid all artificial sweeteners, especially in diet sodas. They mess up your system.

If you're tempted to eat something bad, pinch the roll of fat on your stomach. Use fear to help you.

Brush your teeth early in the evening so you will feel guilty if you eat after that.

Take a walk after dinner.

Don't sit in front of the TV or computer or phone all night.

Drink water and read a book.

Tell yourself you are a thin person.

Make it part of your identity.

Learn to despise body fat.

Become obsessed, but not anorexic.

Make these permanent life changes.

Drop all friends who are overweight.

What bullshit R150. There are men who have rock hard visible abs in Italy who dine on pasta and wine with regularity.

Americans are just pigs.

[QUOTE] There are men who have rock hard visible abs in Italy who dine on pasta and wine with regularity.

Have you ever seen a middle-aged Italian man?

Believe me, the wine and pasta catches up with you.

After 35, very few Italian men can see their abs.

^All the ones I know in the US are corpulent, plain and simple.

Don't confuse Italian men with American Italian men.

[quote] Don't sit in front of the TV or computer or phone all night.

This is the one that gets me.

As my appetite is small and I'm depressive, I undereat anyway, and find it easy to stay away from food. Long walks by myself daily are a pleasure for me, as I'm ia loner, ntroverted and depressive. Plenty of water and tea gets into my system, because I can't digest coffee and sugary drinks taste gross to me.

But, being someone who is avoidant, shy, poor at coping with intimacy/spontaneity/human nature and all that, I find that the bulk of my social time comes from the internet, and that the most downtime time I get in the day to indulge is at night. In general I prefer nighttime, anyway, because it's quiet and dark and sensorily-calm, and I don't have to interact with anyone. So the whole 'early to bed, early to rise, screens off by 9PM' thing is so difficult for me to do--I've tried before, and I just end up agitated and pacing around, glitching out, or if it's night lying there staring into the void of my depression after finishing a whole book.

Sadly, these hours are screwing up my metabolism, meaning that no matter how little I eat or how much I do in the daytime, I still have a belly. This isn't good for my body or mind, I know, but living with the tension and anxiety and constant misery of the 7-10 early bird will kill me faster.

Sometimes we think we want to eat something when we are actually thirsty and if we drink a mug of bullion, or some tea or just drink water instead of eating the idea of feeling hungry goes away. Most people don't drink enough water. To lose weight you should be drinking 70-80 ounces a day. You want to flavor it? Put an orange slice o a lemon or lime slice in it. And yes, be careful with fruit. Blueberries, Strawberries, Granny Smith apples are fine. But certain fruits are very high in sugars, like ripened pineapple or grapes.

R155 is me. Except for the eating, I love to eat.

R150 So basically, don’t consume anything other than lettuce and water. Got it.

OP here - I only ate one small meal yesterday and I lost a pound when I weighed myself this morning!😃. I just need to lose 4 more pounds to get to my ideal weight.

^Any diet you go on, you'll lose between 5 and 10 pounds as your liver uses up its stores of glycogen. As soon as you start eating your normal diet again, that weight will be "re-stored" by your liver. That's just the way the liver works. The weight one loses quickly when going on a low-carb diet is this stored glycogen weight. It's water-soluble and the body just promptly uses it up when deprived of blood sugar from eating.

[quote]How do I stop from wanting to binge on food at night?

Stop fighting it. Eat then as part of an intermittent fasting window, then fast the next morning (and afternoon, if you're keeping the feeding window small). My coworker eats 1 large meal at 8pm every night, but has still lost 35 pounds.

Not being a dick here, genuine question: have you ever tried therapy? I had a bad binge eating problem that basically went away after my first few therapy sessions. My binge eating wasn't even the reason I started going; it was just a nice side effect. Sometimes cravings to binge eat are our brain's ways of telling us to give ourselves the nourishment that, say, our parents maybe didn't give us growing up. Just some food for thought (pun intended).

I don't think that's an unreasonable question because I do think a lot of eating & (especially) drinking is about feeding or dampening your feelings.

R162 is ALL kinds of fucked up...

Maybe, R164... but at least I'm not fat!

If you struggle with portion control, cutting out carbs helps.

^If you *really* start losing weight, you will realize VERY quickly that the foods that make you and keep you fat are: bread in any form, white rice (rice, period), white potatoes, pasta, and alcohol, along with anything with sugar in it. It's just obvious.

Is there a good substitute for honey, jam & syrup? They're my main weakness, along with toast.

I just want to eat food all day and night! But I was good yesterday and only at some baked salmon and a banana. But I sure am hungry! I just want to be a pig 🐖!!!!!!!

With mixed results, I try to be healthy, but I swear to god that if I ever got some terminal diagnosis, one of the first things I do is order a loaded pizza and drink a six pack. I am a total pig at heart!

If you *really* start losing weight, you will realize VERY quickly that the foods that make you and keep you fat are: bread in any form, white rice (rice, period), white potatoes, pasta

LOL!

I’m on a diet and bought a couple of apples the other day, thinking I’d have a couple of slices with some peanut butter to satiate my craving for sweet and salty and they were MEALY. Tried one, threw it away. Next one mealy, threw away. Tried another, threw it away.

No crunch, no snap. Just on the cusp of mush.

I find that Allegra really cuts my appetite. You have to take more than one, however.

r172 what kind of apples? I only eat Fuji

I could be wrong, but I think you are probably taking Allegra-D, r173. That one has pseudoephedrine, which will knock out my appetite (for a short while, at least.)

Nope, R175 - just plain Allegra.

I take around 4 in the morning when I'm having asthma issues. After a couple of days I have zero appetite.

The temptation to have a slice of (gluten-free) toast with my lunchtime cup of tea is overwhelming😔

Don’t do it R177. Think how beautiful you will look. Monkey pox is going to take out most of the hot gays so we need hot ones like you to fill in the gaps!

I am like R147, no sweets or alcohol - weight comes off no matter what else I eat/drink. Otherwise, I stagnate then gain.

How are all you ‘no fruit’ people getting enough fibre and nutrients? Just doubling up on vegetables, or taking supplements?

R180 try Metamucil.

Weight-loss is about mentality and psychology as much as physical input or output.

I'm R147 and I'll say I just this morning hit the 50-pounds-lost mark, after a little less than 4 months of eating no meals after 2 pm. I experienced a serious slow-down in weight loss about 3 weeks ago: going to bed hungry every night and NO weight was being lost, at all. I decided to add a small amount of simple carbs back to my diet, and cooked a pot of brown rice 3 days ago, eating a little every day with my mid-day (and last of the day) meal. It seems to have worked, I seem to be losing weight again at the rate of about half a pound a day. I've started running 3 times a week and am going to be adding swimming a mile to 1.5 miles 3 x a week next week when the outdoor pools open. Adding the simple carbs into the mix seems to have convinced my body that I'm not actually starving, and allowed me to continue dropping the weight. FWIW...

eat oatmeal. lots of fiber and you feel full.

^It's true but I eventually get sick of it in a way I don't get sick of rice. I suspect it's because rice is a WHOLE lot starchier.

[quote]Eat an entire cabbage with a little bit of feta. Volume eating is where it's at.

Follwed by voluminous farting.

R172 If you are buying apples out of peak season (Sept - Dec) Get them only if they in a cooled or refrigerated section. Otherwise they are likely to get overripe and mealy and you won't know before you cut into one.

Go do something that doesnt involve eating...go to your local thrift shops and hunt for treasures . I find that very distracting and never think about food when I do this

[quote]OP, start counting calories of everything you eat.

That doesn’t work. Cut the carbs and you’ll be full.

I did an experiment for a year where I didn't eat meat and I didn't worry about carbs.

By the end of the year my cholesterol levels had dropped back into the normal range and I lost about 10 pounds. It was pretty painless.

R190 Without meat don't you need some vitamin or mineral supplements (I forget what)?

You can easily get vitamin B12 from dairy products and I think most of our diets have way too much protein in them. It's really super strict vegans and some vegetarian diets that lack nutrients, R191 .

r190 I cut carbs (I did Atkins) but ate everything else for a while. I was thin but when I went for my yearly blood work my cholesterol levels were off the charts...so bad they redid it to make sure it wasnt a mistake. They wanted to put me on meds to lower it but I just cut out most beef and dairy from my diet and my numbers dropped to normal.

Now I try to get my protein from fish and poultry..of course I eat beef but only once in a while.

Do you get a lot of cholesterol from 93% ground beef?

R194, it's very important to get your annual check up. They will test everything.

I started only eating from noon to 6 everyday. Coffee in the am and lots of ice water. I'm less bloated, my skin glows, and I'm losing weight but still eating what I want. Oh and if I want to drink alcohol- noon to 6. It works.

Who the hell wants to drink between Noon and 6?

You need to find the grossest fattest black girl and suck the juice out of her tampons. Guaranteed to help lose weight.

R198 You know from personal experience?🧐

Brush your teeth

cigarettes and a nice cold diet coke.

I remember eating disordered gals in the 80's swore by popcorn and diet coke.

R196 Fasting for 18 hours a day, every day? Of course you're going to lose weight. But no thanks.

Tl, dr, but here's an idea...craving food can often be thirst, so drink some water. Second, hunger pangs can be excess stomach acid , so take something for that and see if they go away.

Meth is your friend, OP.

And also Adderall

And Cocaine.

And AIDS.

And DataLounge.

[quote]I remember eating disordered gals in the 80's swore by popcorn and diet coke.

Ha, I remember in college that my weight loss regime was drinking Diet Mountain Dew when I was hungry; back then, it was like liquid meth I wasn't hungry & had so much energy. Alas, my middle aged stomach can no longer handle much soda, much less Diet Mountain Dew

R206 What is so special about Diet Mountain Dew? Also - you needed to have a weight loss regime at 18-22? Were you obese?

My guess is the shit ton of caffeine in Mt Dew makes it special but I'm no Mt Dew expert...

[quote]What is so special about Diet Mountain Dew? Also - you needed to have a weight loss regime at 18-22? Were you obese?

Yeah, the combination of all the caffeine + the soda made you feel buzzed & full. As far as the weight loss regime, after a weekend of drinking a six pack (I can't believe I routinely drank an entire six pack over a weekend - plus, god knows what else), a little Mountain Dew cleanse was just what you needed to get rid of the beer bloat. Oh, to be a college student again!

R198 = gross fat white guy

The poster who recommended a few unsalted dry roasted peanuts is on to something.

I’ve been losing weight by only eating between 7-3, and then drinking a pot of herbal tea. I’ve also cut out pasta, rice, potatoes and (sob) bread. Also added a rigorous exercise routine. I have been doing this for a few months and so far so good, it lately at around 8PM I am HUNGRY.

Tonight I had to run to the store and get some things and I wanted so badly to buy some chips. I didn’t but I did buy some unsalted dry roasted peanuts. Definitely not as good as the “lightly salted” ones, so was not really tempted to say that many. Ate a few and drank some water and it did the trick.

Eat not say lol

Some people drink a glass of water with a teaspoon of apple vinegar. Tastes tart but suppressed the appetite

I want to eat at night too. Ugh.

I lost 40 lbs once (it was too much and I became scrawny) but in the beginning, I'd lie in bed at night hungry enough to eat my hand! I didn't do that but it gets easier. When you start noticing the weight loss, it encourages you to keep going. Don't go too far with it like I did which is easy to do once you're motivated. People would call me The Thin Man. I ate just enough to keep me alive.

You can go a week without eating. It’s not that hard.

My expert nutritionist says: if you're hungry for cake, EAT AN ENTIRE CAKE!

It's what your body is telling you to do!

Brush your teeth when you get hungry. The mint in the toothpaste seems to suppress the appetite.

OP here.

I am not joking when I tell you that last night I ate 5 sloppy joes, had 3 sodas, a blueberry muffin, and some Cheese Puffs, and I just weighed myself and I did not gain any weight! Isn’t it amazing how that can happen sometimes? I’m certainly not pushing my luck today and not going to do that two days in a row because it would definitely catch up with me tomorrow. But I’m so happy!

what kind of fiber do you guys take? powder or the husks (or whatever they are called)

Gummy bears fiber.

Here you go, OP:

sawdust

Sparkling water. Chug a can of LaCroix when you start to get hungry.

R219 if you are craving, why not eat some calorific but QUALITY food. Not that junk. I actually think you just want attention. Waaaah, I’m not losing weight. Waaaaah, I ate an entire container of twinkies again! Rinse and repeat.

R225 1) Because that’s not as tasty.

2) Nobody is forcing to read this thread. K? Thanx. Bye! 😘

You can binge for one day and not gain weight.

Isn’t a sloppy Joe a big sandwich? You really ate three in one night?!

R116 at least hook us up with a link to a factsheet.

Maybe he was eating a Manwich ...

R227 The buns were on the smaller side, but I ate 5!

R229 That is exactly what I used!

HOT TEA with Stevia. Buy a tea assortment. Although a good old cup of Lipton Tea with stevia and lemon juice (fresh lemon or the plastic shaped lemon juice from Italy) works well! Stops my tummy from rumbling.

I recommend a de-bittered liquid vanilla stevia! I also add it to hot teas.

I eat ass.

OP, look into the mirror. That is your present and future, because even if you lose weight now, your tastes and habits will ensure that you regain it. The boring cliché is correct - you need you change your habits. The food you described needs to make a permanent exit from your life and consciousness and salad and low-fat protein need to take centre stage. There is no other way, apart from bulimia, and then you can say goodbye to your teeth and esophagus.

I wish stevia tasted better in coffee. Someone here recommended another type of low calorie sweetener to use with coffee but I forgot what it was

Fist yourself

R236 Can you teach me the method you use?

R235 Monk fruit is another natural alternative sweetener to sugar . Basically zero carbs and no sugar, and if Stevia doesn't work for you taste wise in coffee monk fruit works better with some people.

Silk Almond milk

Milk of the land

I’m close to binging again and just had a ham sandwich and potato salad and it’s almost 4am.😬

I haven’t been on the scale in about 4 or 5 days.

Ask your doctor for Contrave, you fat bitch.

Totally kills your appetite.

Come sit beside me OP.

Now I’m eating a candy bar!🍫

^ just being fat and happy!

Bulimia was all the rage in the 80's.

Stevia tastes better if you use less than half the packet

If you get hungry, eat nuts or an apple. Both will fill you and satisfy you immediately

Try a pot of herbal tea in the evening, OP. It really does fill you up.

Cocaine is an excellent appetite suppressant. They don't call it the "Hollywood Diet" for nothing.

If you're gay, eat pussy.

After that, you won't want to eat for DAYS.

R250 I dont think he can just go down and eat, it would require forced feeding!

R245, yes but I did it for attention rather than to actually fit into nice clothes. One sleeps with greater regularity too, meaning the nannies had their hands full. A shame I didn't become sterile after the first one. I wonder how things are going down on earth for them all these days....

I know DLers are fans of nuts for obvious reasons...but a true fattie like myself cannot open a can of nuts without eating WAY over the recommended serving size, and they are high in calories. So OP I would not recommend using nuts to curb hunger at this point

Someone who only eats 6 or 7 peanuts to suppress hunger, is, I suspect, anorexic.

Have a milkshake. As a liquid, it contains less fattening molecules but it is still delicious and satisfying.

Because it's full of sugar.

OP here. I’ve only eaten a thin steak and a chocolate ice cream bar for dinner and I’m not going to eat anything else today.

R257 did you forget your MiraLax?

Ozempic

[quote] I’m not going to eat anything else today

R257 but in 10 minutes you will put on the napkins, open the fridge...it's the feeding time after 12:01am!

[quote]I’ve only eaten a thin steak

Bitch, don't act like that "thin steak" wasn't actually a Philly cheesesteak. We know. We see.

Welp, I gave in again. Ate a candy bar, half a ham sandwich and potato salad. Oh well.

I guess you want to get scolded. I scold thee.

Since I’ve already messed up, I’m thinking about eating popcorn 🍿 now while watching a movie.

R262 lol what did I tell you? 🤡

Try some Crack OP.

11:15pm Triscuits and cheese. Damn.

OP, is potato salad your favorite food?!

R268 I like it, but it’s not my favorite. I need to quit buying it since it has so many calories.

If I have a can of coke zero and some popcorn (salt, no butter), I do not have to worry about calories from the soda right? So it would basically be a fat-free drink?

OP has an awful lot of potato salad in the house for someone tryng to lose weight.

OP, do you make the potato salad yourself? Maybe check out some recipes online For some healthier salads.

He grows the potatoes and makes the mayo from scratch!

Switch that high calorie potato salad for a green salad and low cal/sugar free dressing and protein topping (chicken/tuna etc) for a start, but I am talking to a wall. Carry on fatty.

OP is having us on.

OP is an attention whore.

[quote]OP is an attention whore.

And yet you’re still giving it to me.☺️

R271 doesn’t understand how food addiction works.

Eat Less, Move More

I came to the conclusion the after midnight snacks or meals don't really add weight, it's those daytime eating cause you fat!

So I went to the grocery store yesterday and they had bakery made cookies on sale, so of course I bought them and of course I’ve eaten half the container already (8 cookies). I’ve also eaten potato salad for the third night in a row, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, a bratwurst 🌭, a Pepsi, and a glass of orange juice. I think that’s it.

Just say “No” to food at night!

R278 I understand the OP is full of shit (and food).

OP, try eating more cookies, and half a pie, it will definitely curb those urges for potato salad.

Suck on a Brach’s Star peppermint. It’ll soothe your stomach and has some sugar to take the edge off without getting you into trouble calorie wise

OP you seem to be giving into cravings of comfort foods that provide little in the way of nutrition. That's why you are continuously hungry. You are carbo loading but taking in little in the way of nutritious calories.

How are you OP? I hope you're back on track. Hang tough!

This evening, my mother came to have dinner with me, and though I plated us both a hearty meal of whole salmon with a side of yams & greens, still she accused me of having an eating disorder and lying about it. Just because I don't like to eat in the mornings, and I'm a picky eater.

Even though she raised me, it escapes her notice that I've never had a big appetite (anxiety), I'm fairly sedentary in lifestyle, and can't afford to buy a lot of food. It's not full-bore an0rexia if you're on a budget, you have slightly irregular/atypical habits, or you've been that way since the cradle.

I hear you loud and clear! You need to ask yourself if you need the binge.

As a favor to me, please keep no cake/cookies/pie in the house - it helps!

[quote]How are you OP? I hope you're back on track. Hang tough!

Sadly, I ate 6 slices of a large pan pizza today.😞

R289 You’re right. I need to quit buying cakes and cookies just because it’s on sale.

Is the original poster a real person, or someone that fat shaming homos have invented to make what they think is a exciting thread?

I love my Jenny Craig coach

Cut out sugar, anything made with flour, corn, or potatoes, and no fruit or starchy vegetables.

Also, avoid anything labeled LOW-FAT or NON-FAT.

And no alcohol.

Eat meat, eggs, cheese and non-starchy vegetables.

The pounds will come off.

R293, easier said than done.

Beauty is pain.

Said it time and again. The only ones that matter:

1st - Cut out sugar

Maybe 2nd - limit alcohol

The pounds will come off. The rest is just extra.

take baby steps and you're gonna fuck up a lot and overeat...don't get discouraged, just get back on track and start again! You can do it OP!

it's best to lose the weight when you're younger when all your joints and bones are in good condition. you can easily exercise and workout.

One of my co-workers tried to lose weight in his 40s and he has a lot of issues, knee problems etc etc. your body doesn't recover as fast etc

If you’re hungry at night, eat something filling but light. Carrot sticks with hummus is a good choice.

What's the update OP?

How many pounds have you lost?

Don't give up!

Anal

[quote]Said it time and again. The only ones that matter:

[quote]1st - Cut out sugar

[quote]Maybe 2nd - limit alcohol

[quote]The pounds will come off. The rest is just extra.

I don't drink or eat sugar. The pounds don't just come off. If only.

increase fiber intake! and protein as well!

Melt Crisco and drink it down. As long as you have no carbs it will go right through you!

Not OP, but I've been following this thread and this time it's for real. I am going to lose these pandemic pounds. I've had coffee with a little creamer so far. Made a salad with spinach, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, hardboiled egg, turkey (lunchmeat) and a little bit of shredded sharp cheddar cheese for later. I think I'm going to try dirty keto again, but this time with fewer processed foods. I'm too embarrassed to go out "jogging", aka the slowest shuffle-run in the world, but I have a treadmill collecting dust and dirty clothes that I'm going to use today.

And I'm not going to tell anybody in real life I'm trying to lose weight again. At least for me, that sabotages me every time.

Good luck to you, R305! Get that treadmill going!

I started in late fall and still going strong. Lost a lot by:

1. Cutting out rice, bread, potatoes, and pasta 2. Cutting back on sugar (struggling with this one) 3. Eating between 11-6 and not after

Its hard to get started but the pounds do start to roll off!

R300 I’ve been bad the past two days. I’m an emotional eater and I was having a stressful week and on Thursday and Friday I just binged on all sorts of garbage. Not proud of that but yesterday I was good and didn’t eat anything except walnuts, water, and black coffee. For today (Sunday) I’m going to try to be good again and just eat a salad 🥗 for my only meal for the day.

Thanks for the good wishes.

Hang in there OP!

Just get back on track. it's a battle and a struggle but you are improving your life!

Drink more water. Sometimes we eat when we're not really hungry. So drink more water and tea, and even broth.

Just drink even broth, not odd broth.

OP, you need some lean protein with every meal as well as carbs that include plenty of fiber (so fruits and vegetables, not starches and sugary stuff). Get some fat in the form of nuts and olive oil and drink lots of water.

How fat are you?

[quote]How fat are you?

How fat are you that you found and bumped this over 2 months-old thread? Who's looking for weight loss threads? You. Probably major projection.

I try and make sure that I really look at the portion for sides when I plate my food.

Rice, potatoes, noodles are easy to heap on the plate.

I find that if I cut something out forever, I don’t sustain.

A simple chromium supplement (e.g. chromium picolinate) will help you enormously with glycemic control and as a result will also take care of the cravings. It's super cheap too, shame more fat whores aren't aware of this trick.

Just be careful with it if you're already on blood sugar medication.

R315 Yep!

wire your jaw shut!

R315 = Pro Tip.

You always feel hungry at first when you cut back. Stick with it, when the pounds begin to disappear it gets easier.

what about celsius drink? i see so many people drink this. does it work?

how are you fatties doing during the holidays? over eating and stuffing yourselves?

stop eating you fat fucks!