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[SerCay]

As I'm typing this now, I'm holding down my urge to order pizza. After finishing this post, I probably will order in anyway. I've been fighting this urge for about 3 hours now, meanwhile I've had a fruit salad and some rice crackers. Still not helping. I want to literally stuff my face.

 

I'm not terribly overweight, but I'm strong build and chubby I could say. I know all the hacks into not giving into the urge, but there's just something wired in my brain wrongly which makes me want to stuff my face.

 

I know all the cliche tips, truly do. Sorry they just don't help.

I need THE tip from a binge eater who has been through the same...HOW do you control the urges, what do you do :S

 

I am recovering from a recent break up and I have a sh*tload of studying to do for exams, also have someone dear to me being ill at the moment so yeah, odds of losing weight are not in my favour..

 

I sometimes wish I was a thin person, a person that could eat and knew when to stop, that didn't have the ''addiction'' wiring...sigh!

[Haydn]

What if you spend all your money on something else, rather than pizza? Or fill up on something liquid, obviously not JD or Millers.

[Turtles]

As I'm typing this now, I'm holding down my urge to order pizza. After finishing this post, I probably will order in anyway. I've been fighting this urge for about 3 hours now, meanwhile I've had a fruit salad and some rice crackers. Still not helping. I want to literally stuff my face.

 

I'm not terribly overweight, but I'm strong build and chubby I could say. I know all the hacks into not giving into the urge, but there's just something wired in my brain wrongly which makes me want to stuff my face.

 

I know all the cliche tips, truly do. Sorry they just don't help.

I need THE tip from a binge eater who has been through the same...HOW do you control the urges, what do you do :S

 

I am recovering from a recent break up and I have a sh*tload of studying to do for exams, also have someone dear to me being ill at the moment so yeah, odds of losing weight are not in my favour..

 

I sometimes wish I was a thin person, a person that could eat and knew when to stop, that didn't have the ''addiction'' wiring...sigh!

 

I will tell you what works for me - I go for a run instead. Any fairly intense aerobic activity - minimum 30 minutes (more if I have time), something that is going to get me nice & sweaty. I have an elliptical at home so that is usually what I go for these days. You would think that would make me hungry but I usually crave healthier food afterward. Plus I drink so much water during the exercise that I end up pretty full anyway.

 

For me it takes care of all kinds of addiction and depressive thought patterns. I love running.

[deathandtaxes]

Go find something to eat that is really filling and will not have many calories. Lots of vegetables fall into this category. Use some good and tasty spices. You can get a whole heaping plateful of stuff for the hit a big slice of pizza will incur.

[contact1]

Take a nap, can't eat if you are sleeping

[Joangel]

Don't deprive yourself. Don't order the pizza. Go to a parlor and order 1 slice with heaping veggies on it, then have a big garden salad on the side. Begin and end with a tall glass of cold ice water with lemon if you can. Stress from finals is probably causing you to crave carbs. Keep some nuts on you desk and munch as you study. Don't skip meals. Plan your meals ahead of time and keep snacks with you at all times. Keep single serving dark chocolate like DOVE in the house for when your sweet tooth is screaming. Make lunch the heaviest meal of the day. Don't worry about proper meal foods, eat a veggie omlet for dinner if you want too. Up the protein. Eat veggies and/fruit in EVERY meal. Cut out all sugar drinks. Water and coffie only on occasion, Crystal Light. Try not to eat out, when you do order soup and salad don't look through the menu. Eat cake on holidays, don't be that freak. If you over do it one day, eat lighter the next don't beat yourself up about it. If you need to drop some quick lbs for an event, substitute town meals a day with protein shakes and have a large salad with protein (fish,chicken) for lunch.

 

All these work for me. After my two kids I ballooned up to 265lbs and wore a size 20! I worked hard but managed to loose over 100 lbs and now fluctuate between size 8-10. These tips help maintain my weigh loss. Also helps if you work out 3xs a week. Anything, even if it's a long walk.

 

Good luck!

[veggirl]

You could make your own pizza. Buy a whole wheat crust and top it with tons of veggies....I did this tonight, homemade pizza with pineapple, jalapeno, onion and red peppers. Delish.

 

Before you eat anything, drink a giant glass of water and then wait 20 min before eating.

 

You just have to force yourself. It's like any other addiction...I'm currently quitting smoking, it's friggin hell!!! I have an e-cig substitute to help, you can substitute for unhealthy things too. There are lots of yummy, healthy foods.

 

Even w/ pizza, you could make pizza on a whole wheat tortilla so its just one serving. You can make pizza-stuffed zucchini! Tons of options, just get creative...or if you're not creative (lord knows I'm not), steal ideas from Pinterest and the like.

 

And DON'T DRINK CALORIES!

[jba10582]

tall glass of cold ice water with lemon if you can.

 

I like this advice above and anytime people say drink more water is typically a good thing.

 

Drinking ice cold water causes your body to raise the temperature of the water from around 32 F (0 deg C) to your natural heat 98.6 deg F (37 deg C) and for every 16 ounces of ice cold water will uses approx 17.5 cal to do that, which basically works out to a free 140 calories burned/day if you drink at least a gallon of ice cold water everyday...a useful metabolic trick

 

Lemon juice is acidic, but when it metabolizes it turns alkaline in the body and this has the effect of balancing your pH, so another good reason to drink lemon in ice cold water.

[FitChick]

I agree that you should go out and buy one slice of pizza. Eating other things you don't want might not help and you'll just eat the pizza later and that will be extra calories. If you can walk there and back you will burn a few calories and clear your head. Don't have a pizza in the house where you will be tempted to eat all of this.

 

I try to practice this as well. I love to bake but instead of baking two dozen cookies which I will eat in one or two days, I walk to the cupcake shop and buy and eat one cupcake. It's huge and sickeningly sweet and I get a stomach ache afterward, but it stops the cravings for a couple of days. As long as the calorie total for the day is within your limit, you should be okay.

 

However, learn better ways to cope with stress. If you can't go for a run, do jumping jacks to music or something else to wear you outl

[lollipopspot]

I thought it was interesting that you wrote this

but there's just something wired in my brain wrongly which makes me want to stuff my face.

 

I can tell you my experience with this. I used to be a binge eater. Mostly sugary things and past the point of satiety, but it still wasn't enough. I was quite a bit heavier than I am now (I'm now around 120 lbs at just over 5'5"). When you have the desire to binge, willpower doesn't really cut it and you succumb at least occasionally in a moment of weakness.

 

What happened to me is that I changed my diet, and along with that my urge to binge went away. I think your body chemistry changes when you start consistently giving your body different foods. For me, I became vegan, and I naturally gravitated towards filling starches.

 

I find that my basic diet is something like this -

The Starch Solution: Eat the Foods You Love, Regain Your Health, and Lose the Weight for Good!: John McDougall, Mary McDougall: 9781623360276: Amazon.com: Books

but I use fats too.

 

 

Starches have been the mainstay diet of all civilizations, but carbohydrates have been demonized more recently. McDougall recommends whole foods starches like barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, wild rice, beans, lentils, peas, and starchy vegetables like carrots, Jerusalem artichokes, parsnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, etc. Added to this are green, yellow, and orange non-starchy vegetables, and fruits. Without adding fats (I do, because I'm not trying to lose weight), he advises people to eat as much as they want from these foods. He finds that dieters do not feel hungry and deprived, and lose weight, while eating to satiety.

 

For me, like I said, my physical and I suppose emotional urge to binge went away (hard to say how they're connected). I did not start out trying to diet or set out trying to change my body chemistry. I went vegan for ethical reasons and found that other things changed too - I lost weight and my cravings disappeared. I do not feel deprived, I no longer have extreme cravings, or a compulsion to overeat.

 

Anyway, that's my experience, if you can get anything from it

[SerCay]

Thank you so much for the replies guys...I already know all this. ''Then why are you not doing it'' comes to your mind now I guess...I lack the will power.

 

I decided that I will cut myself some slack and be done with my final of tomorrow, then start exercising. I'm already eating healthy until I get a ''stuff my face'' craving, so exercising and eating smaller portions will help me lose the weight. The more I lose weight, the more the craving disappear, or become less ''severe''. I eat less during a craving when I'm on ideal weight.

 

I forgot to mention how I gained all this weight, I had the kissing disease last year, too tired to do anything. I stayed indoors for like 5 months..crazy huh. That's when I started getting bored and started eating more and more. Before that I always had cravings but I was in shape so it didn't really matter.

[pink_sugar]

Take a nap, can't eat if you are sleeping

 

This always works for me!

[Always Pondering]

When you order your pizza, under the notes section tell your driver to take the pizza out of the box and smear it on the ground before putting it back in and ringing your door bell. Then you will be disgusted and never order again!

 

On a serious note, I like the water advice and mostly the make-your-own pizza. I've made my own pizza before and not only does it taste more delicious (in my opinion) but is in most cases healthier too and you can make a small size. It takes more effort than punching some buttons on your keyboard or talking on the phone with your local pizza store but it's worth it.

 

I have recently changed my diet, it's mostly motivated through wanting a big change however and also I know I'll feel extremely guilty if I eat something I know I shouldn't be.

 

Best of luck to you!

[The Like Fairy]

Junky food causes cravings, it's the type of carbohydrates, like those found in pizza crust. This craving is as strong as a cocaine addiction. It's not you, it's the food. Junk food causes cravings and it is an addiction, as strong or stronger than any drug. The biggest problem is, you can stop doing drugs. You can't stop eating food, but you can switch which foods you eat. Good reading:

 

http://www.details.com/style-advice/the-body/201103/carbs-caffeine-food-cocaine-addiction

 

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/28/processed-carbs-trigger-brain-reaction-similar-drug-addiction-150188

 

The Carbohydrate Addict's Official Home Page

Edited April 30, 2014 by The Like Fairy

[Smilecharmer]

As I'm typing this now, I'm holding down my urge to order pizza. After finishing this post, I probably will order in anyway. I've been fighting this urge for about 3 hours now, meanwhile I've had a fruit salad and some rice crackers. Still not helping. I want to literally stuff my face.

 

I'm not terribly overweight, but I'm strong build and chubby I could say. I know all the hacks into not giving into the urge, but there's just something wired in my brain wrongly which makes me want to stuff my face.

 

I know all the cliche tips, truly do. Sorry they just don't help.

I need THE tip from a binge eater who has been through the same...HOW do you control the urges, what do you do :S

 

I am recovering from a recent break up and I have a sh*tload of studying to do for exams, also have someone dear to me being ill at the moment so yeah, odds of losing weight are not in my favour..

 

I sometimes wish I was a thin person, a person that could eat and knew when to stop, that didn't have the ''addiction'' wiring...sigh!

 

 

The importance we place on certain foods is the little switch in your brain that keeps you interested. I eat very well now after eating like crap in college. The thing I had to do was stop denying myself the foods I love when I got this craving...so allow yourself one day where you can eat something so bad for you, something so unlike what you know your body needs. One day won't kill your nutrition or your waistline if you vow to eat well every other day of the week. Make sure you record when you do it so you can get back on track.

After doing this, I just stopped craving it because it was allowed food....for some reason that made all the difference in how I viewed it. Might work for you too.

[gaius]

The only person I know who's had success is my mother, who heads to the toilet after every meal to throw up.

 

I usually eat when I want to. It's kind of pointless fighting your body when it wants something, it will always win. The only path to success is figuring out what's making you want to eat in the first place and remedying it. Then your body stops sending you those cravings.

[Haydn]

Your mum used to do this as well.

 

Op maybe you could learn to crave something else? I love Cheetos by the way. Not sure why i added that plug.

 

 

The only person I know who's had success is my mother, who heads to the toilet after every meal to throw up.

 

I usually eat when I want to. It's kind of pointless fighting your body when it wants something, it will always win. The only path to success is figuring out what's making you want to eat in the first place and remedying it. Then your body stops sending you those cravings.

[Taramere]

As I'm typing this now, I'm holding down my urge to order pizza. After finishing this post, I probably will order in anyway. I've been fighting this urge for about 3 hours now, meanwhile I've had a fruit salad and some rice crackers. Still not helping. I want to literally stuff my face.

 

I'm not terribly overweight, but I'm strong build and chubby I could say. I know all the hacks into not giving into the urge, but there's just something wired in my brain wrongly which makes me want to stuff my face.

 

It's highly unlikely that there's something wired wrongly in your brain. The reality is that the majority of Americans are overweight

 

http://img.alibaba.com/img/pb/196/715/669/669715196_832.jpg

 

I single out America purely because when I googled figures for obesity in the West, that's what came up. I think things are that bit worse in the Greed is Good US, but other Western nations aren't far behind. This would indicate that rather than being an indication that something's wired wrongly in your brain, your urge to stuff your face is the norm. In lands of plenty, people will tend to be overweight. Same goes for other animals - they'll stuff their faces in times of plenty too.

 

 

 

I know all the cliche tips, truly do. Sorry they just don't help.

I need THE tip from a binge eater who has been through the same...HOW do you control the urges, what do you do :S

 

 

I don't know that I've ever been a binge eater. I do like food, though, and I don't like depriving myself. When I was in my teens, I ate more of it than I should and like anybody else I still struggle to resist the desire to eat more of what is tasty but bad for you. I'm very sure whatever I tell you will fall into the category of cliché tips...but I'm also fairly sure that most advice that actually works tends to be regarded as clichéd advice.

 

Consider the number of obese people who eat fast food. McDonalds etc. The food itself isn't always that higher in calorie content than alternatives - but nonetheless we rightly associate it with obesity. These are foods which are generally bland and favourless (though they may well have certain addictive additives in them). The fat and salt might make them seem "tasty" but they don't have much actual taste to them. Eat something that isn't nourishing you very well, and that isn't satisfying your tastebuds, and you'll be left wanting more.

 

For me, eating good food is the key to moderation. Not that I'm superslim - I'm at the upper end of the healthy range for my height, but that's because there are certain things I'm just not prepared to sacrifice for the sake of dwelling at the lower end of the healthy range. For instance, I love chocolate. Chocolate can easily be very moreish if you eat the cheaper, more milky varieties. The way to eat chocolate without being a big glutton about it is to buy a good brand of dark chocolate with a very high (eg 84%) cocoa content. I probably eat about 30 to 50gms of dark chocolate most days - but spread over the day. A square here, a square there. Good high cocoa content dark chocolate is too intense to wolf down.

 

Similarly, using a lot of spices in your cooking helps to make the food more satisfying. My mother, I have to say, is a very bland cook - and I think that's why I struggled a bit when I was in my teens. Once I moved home, I lost weight because I was cooking for myself. I use a lot of spices and a lot of sundried tomatoes. You just end up eating less when food is highly flavoured. Your cravings are being satisfied by that kind of food. I honestly don't know of any other more effective, less clichéd advice.

 

If you genuinely think your brain is wired wrong then you need to see a specialist about that. More likely you have behavioural and thinking patterns that are hard to break. Perhaps hypnotherapy could help you to control the urges - but you won't help yourself by falling back on the notion that this is just the way your brain is wired and that the more clichéd advice can't/won't work for you. I know it's horrible to be told "you have to stop falling back on excuses" - but honestly, nothing will change unless and until you do stop falling back on those excuses.

Edited April 30, 2014 by Taramere

[Els]

If you are hungry, then you should be eating. However, there are heaps of alternatives to pizza. If you're craving pizza, you're probably needing some sodium and protein. So get some lean meat with a bit of seasoning, along with veggies and a small helping of carbs.

 

Also, rice crackers sound healthy but are actually very calorie-dense, more so than a pizza slice of equal weight. Worse yet, they're empty calories, unlike fruits or nuts.

[Shepp]

The importance we place on certain foods is the little switch in your brain that keeps you interested. I eat very well now after eating like crap in college. The thing I had to do was stop denying myself the foods I love when I got this craving...so allow yourself one day where you can eat something so bad for you, something so unlike what you know your body needs. One day won't kill your nutrition or your waistline if you vow to eat well every other day of the week. Make sure you record when you do it so you can get back on track.

After doing this, I just stopped craving it because it was allowed food....for some reason that made all the difference in how I viewed it. Might work for you too.

 

Exactly!!

 

Deny yourslef when you really fancy soemthing and you whole health kick will go out the window! Be more flexible and it's easy!

[Imported]

I saw a box of Peanut Butter and Chocolate Pop Tarts two days ago. I could not resist. Saw it, grabbed it, in the basket! Paid, took it home and waited till morning to have it with my cup of coffee for breakfast. I was having peanut butter and chocolate pop tart dreams all night. Woke up, got a cup of coffee from my baddass stainless steel keurig machine and toasted a peanutbutter and chocolate pop-tart. It was OK. Took the rest to work and left it at the lounge for everyone else to try.

 

Sometimes I get an extreme urge for pizza from my favorite pizza place and I go overboard on what I want on it! But, I go with their thin crust so it's still healthy...yep. On top of that, extra spicy tangy thick sauce, extra extra real chedder cheed (I don't like the fake chedder cheese), extra extra extra extra pepperoni (the layer of pepperoni should be three times the thickness of the crust...at the very least), mushrooms, pineapple, bacon, red onion, sometimes salami. That's about it usually. It's usually @$50 to $60 for this pizza, before tip.

 

I eat two, maybe 3 slices. Occasionally as much as 5 slices before I feel stuffed. And then I throw the rest away. I throw it in the garbage in my home, I then throw a bunch of crap on top of it to make sure it is no longer edible and then I take it outside to the outside garbage holder.

 

I make my own from scratch too, weighed and measured to hit X calories/protein/carb/fat per slice...starting with flour. Add tasteless protein powder meant for baking. Super thin high protien crust, a little bit of some sauce I found on Amazon, real chedder cheese, real pepperoni. Throw it my kickass Pizza Pazzaz Pizza Maker. It's not bad.

[jbelle6]

I know this is an older post, but I usually just make a healthy version of what I crave. If I want pizza I will make it on a whole wheat pita with grilled chicken instead of pepperoni and I'll use skim milk cheese. If I want ice cream I'll freeze my favorite yogurt. Works for me.

[The Like Fairy]

Your urges are related to wheat addiction. Google 'Wheat Belly', it is a book (and a website) that explains the science behind modern genetically modified wheat and how it is engineered to stimulate appetite.

 

Its not your fault, its just wheat addiction. Go to the website wheatbelly dot com and read up.

 

Cut out wheat, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, and voila, no more cravings.

 

Good luck!

Edited May 23, 2014 by The Like Fairy

[Speakingofwhich]

Your urges are related to wheat addiction. Google 'Wheat Belly', it is a book (and a website) that explains the science behind modern genetically modified wheat and how it is engineered to stimulate appetite.

 

Its not your fault, its just wheat addiction. Go to the website wheatbelly dot com and read up.

 

Cut out wheat, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, and voila, no more cravings.

 

Good luck!

 

The Like Fairy, what do you think about Stevia? The real thing not the stuff mixed with sugar or artificial sweeteners. Also, I copied and pasted the carb links you posted earlier in this thread. Will share with my kids.

[snappytomcat]

Your urges are related to wheat addiction. Google 'Wheat Belly', it is a book (and a website) that explains the science behind modern genetically modified wheat and how it is engineered to stimulate appetite.

 

Its not your fault, its just wheat addiction. Go to the website wheatbelly dot com and read up.

 

Cut out wheat, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, and voila, no more cravings.

 

Good luck!

WOW,like fairy

I had no idea about the wheat,i love wheat,especially wheat bread I don't eat bread often but when I do that's what I like,i will have to read those links you posted