Grrrr!
 

I'm wanting to eat everything in the house tonight. WHY WHY WHY do I have that urge every few days???? It is so frustrating to eat out of control. I know I shouldn't snack all evening but I don't seem to be able to stop myself.

Why is that?

Cause you're human, girlfriend!

I do that at times too Gayle. I think, for myself...it would help if I would eat smaller meals throughout the day to stay full. Otherwise I can find all the junk and eat it all night long.

I know how you feel. I've been trying to just not have the things that I like in the house. Lately when I feel really hungry I've been getting some ice chips and chomping them down. It works some times for a short while.

It's been easier since I found out that I was diabetic. I keep some really yummy sugar-free cookies (I can have three) so eating them helps....so no candy or sugary foods. I can't have salt because I just swell up terribly....so no chips or sunflower seeds. It's like.....what can I eat? Fruit, string cheese........and ice chips!! Yay!!!

It think it's hormonal. Being on my healthy kick, I quit buying junk food and desserts. I keep nuts in my candy dishes, replacing the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&Ms. I do still buy popsicles and ice cream sandwiches, but those don't tempt me. Harold bought himself a stash of candy bars to take to work.

I usually snack every night, and I can't help it. For me it's not sweets though, I always eat salty stuff before bed, usually popcorn or chips. It doesn't even matter how full I am, I'll still feel I need to have something! When I lived with my grandma, she would tell me "Grandpa always said you don't sleep well if you eat before bed!" but I sleep quite contently with a full tummy :D

I'm just like you Lindsay, I don't even have to be hungry to want something to eat. Usually it is salty things, but sometimes it is sweets - there's just no telling.

Sandy, usually I don't keep tempting snacks in the house either - but sometimes when I'm in the snacky mood, I can eat plain bread and butter - it doesn't matter, I just have to put something in my mouth.

Sometimes I have so much willpower and I won't snack at all in the evenings for days/weeks. Then all of a sudden it will come on me and it's like I have NO willpower at all and I eat eat eat for days/weeks - I gain weight, then I feel terrible. It takes soooo long now to lose it. But when I'm in the snacking mode, I KNOW it will take forever to lose what I gain and I will be miserable - but I eat ANYWAY.

I think I am psychotic - or irrational, at least. :D

Hey Gayle.....You should sprinkle some sugar on that bread and butter, it's really good :angel:

Girl, you crack me up :sidesplit:

I love you girls!

Last night was my night. I was wearing out the kitchen drawers looking for something to munch on, ate a banana - but that didn't work, played on the computer - that didn't work, finally went to bed!

I was my goal weight, much to my surprise, about 2 or 3 weeks ago. So why is my stomach not flat? Anyway, no sooner did I get off the scale, that I went shopping and came home with all sorts of junk food. I have been eating modified junk food since! It's the carbs I need.

I'm going to join WW online. Now that I'm used to cutting back on carbs, I think I can work with their program,, which I like. I really need to be accountable to somebody!

I snack on Fiber One frosted flakes. I have 2 or 3 bowls during the day. They are sweet, chewy, have some crunchy things in their, and tons of fiber. WW lowers their points depending on how much fiber is in a food. I also use low fat chocolate syrup. I would have had that banana with some chocolate syrup on it Sandy. Much more satisfying. I also make a kind of mousse with fat free Cool Whip and some of this chocolate syrup.

My taste buds are not all that fussy, so these things satisfy me. I do need my bread though. I don't want to cut all carbs out.

I love the way you think, Betsi!!!!! :sidesplit:

ME TOO!!!!

Those are really great ideas, Judy. I do WW in my head all the time - I guess I need to be accountable to someone too - because I'm pretty hit or miss these days with my point totals!!! LOL!

Seriously... my mind is a scary place to be, LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!

No wonder I'm a fat gal....I was raised on butter sugar sandwiches:p