What are successful ways that anyone has learned to stop disliking themselves and overeating because of it?
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Well obviously the first step is you need to learn to low and accept yourself.Work with a good counselor or therapist who can help you deal with any underlying issues.If you use food to fill a void,you need to find out what is causing that void in your life.Food can never fill you up,its not your friend.You need to change your thinking completely,food is to nourish your body,give it the nutrients it needs to survive,it is not meant for recreational purposes or as a drug of choice,to fill your emptiness.There are many wonderful self-help books on this subject,look up emotional eating on amazon.com,or go to your library and check them out.You also need to engage in a prayer life,and get to Know the Lord,even if you dont love yourself,Jesus does! Good luck to you :)
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This worked for me.\n\nTreadmill... 55 minutes 3 x weekly, plus a round of the universal weight machines.\n\nChange eating behaviors.  Cook your own food.  Make and eat plenty of broth based soups (rather than cream / flour / corn starch based.  Eat smaller meals.  Cut out all the sugars you can.  Cut back on cheese, bread, and ice cream.  Never skip breakfast.  Use non-stick pans to cook eggs.
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It's a habit, tell yourself not to do it.. of course you will do the same for many many times again, at a very moment you have learned that eating for that reason is not fun and you'll stop doing it. Once you have reached that point.... YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOURSELF.\n\nGoing to the gym is a good thing, but that won't stop your bad eating habit.\nYou should learn that by trial and error.. while never trying to exceed your daily calorie limit.\n\nI lost 84 pound myself, and haven't gained any weight for about 2 years now.. because I got wise from this trial and error game while I always watched my calorie intake as a stick behind the door.
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whoa!!!\n\nI know how that feels.. :(\n\nLimit your food intake and try to exercise. Walking or jogging would help a bit... \n\nAnd I'm not sure if it's healthy, but whenever I feel like I gained a lot of weight and I want to stop it, I try to drink at least 2 glasses of water before each meal to trick my stomach into "thinking" that I'm full, that way I won't eat a lot... It does work.\n\nJust don't do it habitually.
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I just reviewed this book for Amazon that would be great for you.  It's called Ten Habits That Mess Up a Woman's Diet by Elizabeth Somer.  Here's what it covers:\n"The author explains the situational, chemical and emotional contributors to overeating or poor eating. She recommends different strategies that fit the different triggers or causes. Read this book to get the right tool for your situation. Maybe it will be a food journal, healthy munchies, calorie tracking, ways to love veggies, but it definitely won't be a fad diet. \n\nHabit 1: Mindless Eating \nHabit 2: Putting Other's Needs Ahead of Our Own \nHabit 3: Not Being Honest \nHabit 4: Skip the Broccoli, Eat the Fries \nHabit 5: Setting Off Without a Plan \nHabit 6: Excuses, Excuses, Excuses \nHabit 7: I'm Moody, Let's Eat! \nHabit 8: Give Me the Quick Fix, Now! \nHabit 9: Drinking Away Our Waistlines \nHabit 10: The All-or-Nothing Approach to Dieting
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Keep in mind the following when dieting:\n\nDiets and changing your eating to healthy food choices can work but because we know so little about ourselves and our relationship with food, it makes it difficult to win the battle. A lot of us have problems with dieting because we have a problem called "emotional eating" we eat to comfort ourselves during difficult, stressful, sad, etc times in our lives.\n\nYou may experience all those emotions during dieting as we continuously get on the scale hoping to see a big difference in numbers after dieting only for a day or two. Also what is stressful when dieting is that we try to lose a large number of weight in such a short period of time which in most cases is unreasonable. \n\nThis all brings about stress, discomfort and sadness. When we feel this way, we turn to our best friend for help and support which for many of us is food. The diet is now broken and we feel that we can't stick to diets. We then try fad diet after fad diet hoping to lose the original 20 pounds and now we may have as much as 30 pounds to lose because we continue to put on weight as we continue to break these fad diets by binging before starting our next diet. \n\nPlease learn about your relationship with food before your next diet so that you may achieve your goals. To help a little, keep in mind the following:\n\nYou already know how to lose weight. You know that if you eat less and exercise more eventually you’ll see the pounds come off. What’s getting in your way? Why do you usually regain the weight you lost? The answer to all these questions is the same “Emotional Eating.” Simply defined, emotional eating means you eat to satisfy emotional hunger; it means you use food for comfort or as a way to cope with life; and it means you eat for reasons other than what your body needs. Whenever you reach for a boredom-breaking snack despite your commitment, or whenever you eat to quell anxiety, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you binge after a fight, or double up on portions because your day turned sour, that’s emotional eating. Whenever you feel that sharp craving for your favorite food, that’s emotional eating. When we eat during these times while on a diet, we believe the diet doesn’t work or that we lack self control and then look for the quickest way to lose weight (fasting/diet pills, ect) after eating all we can since we already messed the diet day up. Read the information below but remember that emotional eating plays a big part in why we don’t continue dieting and why we regain lost weight and why we binge today and start a new diet tomorrow. Best of Luck.\n\nP.S. After learning about my relationship with food, I was able to drop my weight from 263 pounds down to 151 pounds which is a 112 pound weight lost.
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Well my method is to just exersise and eat low fat foods, it really helps! Dont stop eating or throw-up, nor do pills! Just set your mind to it and you can do it! Good LUCK!
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Tape a picture of a really obese person in front of you.  Everytime you feel an urge to dip in to the chocolate bowl, stare at that picture.  Put some healthy, low cal snacks in front of you & try to satisfy your urge that way.  Hard, but you can do it, use your will power!
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What,,, you want validation that you're too damn lazy and won't stop eating !!!\n\nStop the carb intake and do some damn exercising.  Burn some\nof that fat and use it as positive energy.\n\nYOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.....  JUST DO IT !!
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Try 6 to 8 very small meals a day...Just so that the "edge" of your appetite goes away!
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Practice, and lots of it!  Listen and follow your conscience.  When you know you shouldn't be eating or doing something, just don't do it and distract yourself or replace it with a good habit.  As far as eating goes, start slow and set small goals, and when you develop good eating habits give yourself one meal or one day a week to splurge, so you don't totally neglect yourself.  Same goes for exercising.
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Eat lots of fresh fruits and starches -- stay away from salt (less than 500 mg total per day), and drink lots of water.  This combo will naturally make you feel full, will cleanse your body of toxins, and will give you a crapton of energy.  \n\nNot only will you not feel hungry, you can expect to lose up to 8 pounds a week.  It's the Rice Diet from Duke University -- and it's been around since 1939 -- because IT WORKS!\n\nBeware of artificial ways to suppress your appetite.  Many pills cause permanent heart damage, and deaths have resulted from some.  There are so many controversial products out there.  What works for one person may not for another, and they can be dangerous!  Please be careful -- and don't fall for any hype.\n\ngood luck!
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Dieting sucks. Changing eating habits works. A few tips that have worked for me:\n1. Eat slowly. It takes up to 20 minutes for your brain to register that your tummy is full. If you eat slowly you'll give your brain more time to tell you what your stomach really needs.\n2. Eat fresh. Load up on vegetables and cut down your meat. The fiber will make you feel fuller longer, too. Dress up your veggies with shedded cheese, roasted nuts, stuff like that. Eat out seldom. Their portions are huge and not healthy. As much as you can, fix your own food and avoid pre-packaged meals.\n3. Drink a lot of water. It aids in digestion and keeps you feeling fuller, longer. Especially drink a glass of water about 1/2 hr. before dinner. You'll feel like eating less.\n4. Eat a lot of soup. This will get you vegetables and water, fill you up, and it will do it with very few calories. They can be very easy to make, too.\n5. Don't deny yourself things you really like. Denying yourself of one thing entirely will drive you nuts until you lose control and binge. Instead, allow yourself some of your favorite foods regularly, and portion them out. For example, my husband has a problem with ice cream. His habit is to sit in front of the TV with a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a spoon. Without even thinking, he can polish the whole thing off. It's better to portion it out in advance, enjoy a reasonable about, and stop when your plate is clean.\n6. Walk whenever you can. Walking burns just as many calories per mile as running (running just gets it done faster) and is a lot easier and less sweaty to do. A 150 lb person burns about 120 cal/mile. You'll burn more or less, depending on your weight.\n7. DO NOT drink your calories. That means not only soda, but fruit juice and coffee drinks, as well. They have HUGE amounts of calories and they don't satisfy you like a meal. Avoid Jamba Juice like the plague. Snapple is your enemy. And if you really need a latte, please don't get any of those syrup shots.\n\nRemember- 1 lb of fat = 3500 calories. You could run an entire marathon and only lose a single pound! Don't expect it to be fast or easy. It's hard to lose weight, and only people who've never tried to lose don't believe that. Any diet that claims to make you lose weight faster is unrealistic and unsustainable. Numbers don't lie. But if you take my advice it'll come off nice and steady, absolutely. Good luck!
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Good job in recognizing this as an addiction.  Please get some professional help immediately; almost no one can stop this on their own.  One factor that keeps you addicted is when you consistently undereat.  When you undereat, your body does its best to MAKE you eat -- and that means constantly causing you to think about food and obsess about food!  This sets you up for a binge.  You are fighting your own biology, and you cannot win.  The only solution is to accept your body's natural hunger and learn to eat whenever you're hungry, and treat yourself with kindness.  It is impossible to maintain a weight too low for your body and NOT obsess about food.  Once you're addicted to binging/purging, it will take time and effort to break the habits, but it absolutely can be done.  Hope this helps.  I've been there.
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This works great for me..\nTry do any kind of vigorous exercise 3x a day for 15 minutes. I power walked, went up and down my basement stairs, raked leaves, jump rope, anything to get my heart beating.\nIt takes commitment but it works. It has something to do with keeping your metabolism working. \nAlso I kept away from white sugar products. For me white sugar gave my body an energy burst that doesn’t last and drained me after my sugar high was over. It was very hard for me to get over the sugar withdraw the first 3 days . It took about a week to get my body trained. \nI went from size 14 to size 10 in about 5 months. STAY AWAY from McDonalds, Chips and Crackers.. " these gave me sugar cravings HUGE" I have fallen off the diet wagon and feel low energy but now you have motivated me to get in the swing again. Thanks
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Well, sadly what you have to learn is control! It sucks but that is the only thing that is going to stop you now and in the future. You should slowly work through it...like eat other healthy foods but limit how much eat...Allow yourself some junk food once in a while...You should try to get yourself into the habit! It's all about control in the end! Hoped that helped!
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There is only one way to do it and that is to burn up more calories than you take in.  Now that is the clinical answer but in practical terms, what works best is to do three things:\n\n1. Decide you are going to make a permanent lifestyle change as it relates to food. \n\nThat is, understand that the only purpose of food is to keep you alive.  Not to consume it like it will all be gone tomorrow.  Trust me, it will be there.  Enjoy the taste of the food but don't make a meal out of every portion.  For instance a half cup of rice is a serving. A half a plate of rice is about 6 servings. Then all the crap goes on top. That's too much for a single meal.   Which is typical of what Americans eat.\n\n2. Listen to your stomach.  When it's comfortable, get up from the table.\n\nMost times when you eat, you'll make that big breath sound after your stomach has had enough.  Usually it's an inhale through your nose.  If you listen, you'll hear yourself do it.  Never mind there is more food left on the plate.  Your stomach just told you it's good to go.  Try to listen.\n\nAnd most important is number 3.\n\n3. Portion size.\n\nAll you can eat buffets for 5.95 or whatever they cost in your town sounds like a great idea but the damage you can do to your girlish figure and later on your health is incredible.  No one should eat so much food in a sitting until they can hardly breathe anymore.  A buffet in my opinion is equivalent to the trough pigs lay in to eat.  They don't stop eating until the lining of their stomachs begin to bleed.\n\nEven now commercials are beginning to show up on the tube for Pepso Bismal for children. WTF?  A formation for children?  Kids never eat that much or at least they never did in when I was a kid.  Now if you walk around in any Wal-Mart Superstore, every other kid is at least chunky and some are obese. \n\nPoint is, you can lose weight if you just stop playing the role of a Hoover Vac in your kitchen and get control of the portion sizes and follow the serving sizes of foods.  Most foods put the size on the package so just read it.  Stay away from foods with little to no fiber.  Fiber helps you to feel full and helps move waste out of your body. Foods with NO fiber tend to hang around in your system too long.\n\nHope this helps. Give yourself a year to see a difference.  You will I promise.\n\n-J