How to stop eating?

You do need will power. You also need to do some exercise. You also need to eat the right things. Keep away from processed carbs, and stick to decent fats (yes you need to eat fats, but good ones), proteins, fibre and decent low gi carbs. All in a good balance.

Stop snacking, plan your meals, and get into a routine.

Have smaller portions, and with them being richer in fat and protein it'll keep you fuller for longer.
 
A lot of good advice here. I also had a problem with overeating and got a little disgusted with myself when I got to a 38 incher (which is firmly overweight for my build and height, but clearly won't be for everyone - check your BMI people!).

So, I have a new point. Mass marketing - when I watch TV in America I get hungry. Know why? Because every second ad is for food (all the others are for drugs). Coke once trialled not marketing in a region of northern USA - their sales dropped off a cliff. Took them years to regain the market they'd lost.

Bottom line is we drink coke and we eat rubbish because we're told to (sad - I know), so turn the TV off, stop reading magazines and don't expose yourself to mass media when trying to diet. You'll think of food less often.
 
Freefaller said:
You do need will power. You also need to do some exercise. You also need to eat the right things. Keep away from processed carbs, and stick to decent fats (yes you need to eat fats, but good ones), proteins, fibre and decent low gi carbs. All in a good balance.

Stop snacking, plan your meals, and get into a routine.

Have smaller portions, and with them being richer in fat and protein it'll keep you fuller for longer.
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I found denying myself chocolate, puds chrisps and chips (and a few other blatant not good foods) mon - friday but eating anythign I wanted sat/sun helped... I also force myself to eat 4 sticks of celery a day - the celery is partly to fill me up a bit and partly as an experiment... after 4 weeks it does not taste as bad as it did on day 1... so i am getting used to it or its going out of season and the stuff in the shops does not taste so much
 
Cut the carbs - avoid potato, white bread, rice, pasta like the plague, especially after 6pm - it all lines the gut.

Avoid processed foods as they are packed full of empty sugars which jump straight on your belly.

Focus on protien, it fills you up more and combined with exercise builds muscle mass. Each extra kilo of muscle burns 30-35 calories.

If all else fails get your stomach stapled up :D
 
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edscdk said:
I found denying myself chocolate, puds chrisps and chips (and a few other blatant not good foods) mon - friday but eating anythign I wanted sat/sun helped... I also force myself to eat 4 sticks of celery a day - the celery is partly to fill me up a bit and partly as an experiment... after 4 weeks it does not taste as bad as it did on day 1... so i am getting used to it or its going out of season and the stuff in the shops does not taste so much
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Yeah that helps as does cutting out fizzy drinks and drinking a lot more water. That and white carbs (heavily processed) and you're onto a good path.

I did say exercise, that just behaves as a catalyst it's not necessary, but it does help.
 
Freefaller said:
Yeah that helps as does cutting out fizzy drinks and drinking a lot more water. That and white carbs (heavily processed) and you're onto a good path.

I did say exercise, that just behaves as a catalyst it's not necessary, but it does help.
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good point - plus if you want something fizzy I found that sparlking water really satisfies the need for a tingle in the mouth!
 
Find something else to do with your time.

I found back in the day I used to snack if I was bored so I just keep myself busy, never been overweight but I was heading that way before sorting myself out.
 
My gf was really shocked when I showed her that one can of full-fat coke had the same calories as 100 cans of Coke Zero / Pepsi Max. Fizzy drinks are one of the biggest culprits of empty calories.
 
If cutting out the junk is too much of a problem (as it is for me) then you'll have to reduce calories in other ways.

Get a bike and cycle everywhere. I do 27m a day, 5days/week (work commute) and while yeah, I'm a 36w and have a couple of pounds I'd like to shift I stay that way despite eating an ungodly amount of sweet stuff.

Every time my weight starts to creep upwards I knock the 400g blocks of Dairy Milk on the head and the weight drops back off.
 
I often hear that even zero sugar fizzy drinks are to be avoided, can someone sum up why this relevant when you are only concerned with weight loss?
 
Bubo said:
I often hear that even zero sugar fizzy drinks are to be avoided, can someone sum up why this relevant when you are only concerned with weight loss?
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you body thinks its getting sugar because of the *thing that makes diet drinks sweet* it releases ?insulin? which causes your blood sugar to drop lower than it should - you then crave sugar to put things right...

thats my understanding...
 
No1newts said:
Find something else to do with your time.

I found back in the day I used to snack if I was bored so I just keep myself busy, never been overweight but I was heading that way before sorting myself out.
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It sounds as though this is what the OP is doing, but it's difficult to be certain. If you are over eating through boredom or some other psychological reason, then the fad diets you've seen suggested in this thread aren't going to work for you. Even if you do shed some of the excess, you'll more likely than not revert to your previous behavior, and then you'll pile the weight back on.

By all means cut out the chocolate/cake/crisps etc, but try to think about how you're going to transition to a "normal" diet when you reach your ideal weight. Resist the temptation to set yourself overly ambitious targets such as "losing 3lb a week for the next 9 weeks"; all that you'll achieve is misery when you inevitably fail. You need to come up with a sustainable strategy to keep the weight off - there's no point in suffering a 1000 calorie a day diet if you're just going to put it all back on again, because you've not taught yourself how to eat properly. You're not morbidly obese, so there's no need to go all out on a rigid, strict program.

Also, thank you BunnyKillBot for responding to oulton - it saved me the hassle of having to do so myself ;)
 
edscdk said:
you body thinks its getting sugar because of the *thing that makes diet drinks sweet* it releases ?insulin? which causes your blood sugar to drop lower than it should - you then crave sugar to put things right...

thats my understanding...
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Not heard that before, just stuff like this
 
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