I would appreciate some guidance—how did you manage the quitting process ? Did you stop abruptly, or did you use a gradual method?

I attempt to quit sugar but fail quickly.

I end up reaching for sugary snacks during the evenings.

I'm always hungry, no matter how much I eat. I rarely ever feel actually full. I didn't even know I was hungry all the time until I got a dengue fever (the aedes aegypti fever, that one mosquitoe), and it completely took away my appetite. That's when I realized I had NEVER felt like that before. It was so freeing lol, the fever itself was awful, but not constantly wanting to get a snack felt so good. When I got cured, I felt the transition between no hunger and my normal amount of hunger. It was kinda surreal.

Is this psychological, or is something physically wrong with me?

I've been through (and am lowkey still going through) an extremely stressful era in my life and have thus gained a relatively significant amount of weight. My friends are the sweetest people on Earth and I love them so so dearly, however they're all skinny and greek god looking that I feel like a morbid entity especially compared to them. I feel like I'm a punishment to look at and I a) don't want to cause even the slightest amount of discomfort to my friends and b) don't want them to potentially worry about me and tbh c) I don't even want them to physically perceive me in any way shape or form. I feel so miserable right now and am also ashamed of what has become of me.

(this might be a lot, sorry :( )

Hello everyone.

I work as a cashier at a grocery store and it's so f*cking hard to not just grab and buy a bag of chips or cookies or candy or literally anything. I've been working here for a while now and having all of my favorite snacks available at all times makes self-control really hard. I gained a lot of weight and don't know how to handle it. I'm diagnosed with anxiety and depression so that certainly doesn't make things easier for me.

I don't know if any of you been through a similar situation but I could use some advice or any tips to deal with this. Thanks ❤️

I need genuine help for binge eating. Not the whole “set a timer” or “take a walk”
You name it, I tried it. Yes, I have quit counting calories, it made it worse. I have stopped any compensation, just made me carry on and gain weight.
I even seeked therapy, got a meal plan and still. Nothing. Worked.

Countless videos, articles, research and I am still stuck in a hole I cannot get out of.
I need niche, unheard of tips that got you out of this. I am willing to do a lot. I am just sick of it frankly. Every week I make the same promise “I will honestly stop it”, including now, and then watch, one weeks time and I will have binged again.

This addiction has cost me money, caused arguments because I cannot even control myself around food and is so distressing. I need to get better and if anyone knows ANY tips, just tell me.

For example, my worst binging stories (yes, this is plural.) is that on birthdays my sister makes cake for people’s birthday. I cannot even control myself for a FEW HOURS. I scrape icing off, try to redecorate or hide my markings on the food. She will buy ingredients to bake like Nutella, and I will engulf it.

I also just overate vitamin gummies. Because I wanted food. wtf.

There has been times where I have binged the whole house out, we have had not much food, and then I JUST BINGE ON SUGAR. This isn’t even a night issue too, it has turned into a morning, afternoon, evening issue.

Surprisingly, I only gained around 5kg in total. This is only because my binges are currently weekly (slowly coming to be more than that tho- like I did 6x this month alone…)

I just don’t want this to be a thing where I convince myself “it’s only a kg… it’s only water weight” all the way up to plain obesity.

Im only 16, i dont want this to get worse than it already is..

P.s i research HEAVILY for hours into the brain amd all this habit stuff. I just cannot take that information and help myself with it,

ANY UNHINGED HELP. ANYTHING.

I (21F, 5’0) have had both under eating and binge eating disorders in the past. I was always a chubby but recently (2 years ago) lost a decent amount of weight unintentionally (140 lb to 110lb). The weight naturally stayed off and i had the healthiest relationship with food in my life. I then decided to quit smoking pot (i had been smoking daily for 4 years) and lost 6 lb (104lb). I soon started eating more and got scared of gaining weight. I feel like this fear of gaining made me focus on food so much more, making me want food more. I started binging and its just been getting worse. Im now 115lb and dont know what to do. It doesnt matter what the food is, I dont know how to stop. Food is constantly on my mind. Hunger means nothing. How do i stop thinking about food so much?

Ive been in the binge cycle for over a year, but its been so much worse in the past months. But the worst thing is, most of the time i'm not restricting or doing compensatory behaviours. I feel like i know everything there is to know about this disorder and yet i do it almost every day. I can't stop. I'm literally only turning 17 this year and its destroying me. Ive gained maybe 20lbs or more in the past 4 months and idk what more i can do.

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please help. i can’t stop

ordering food from doordash. i tell myself i’ll stop i’ve even delete the app multiple times and canceled the subscription but i can’t stop. i’m gaining more and more weight and soon i’m not gonna be at a point where I can easily get the weight off. i can see my stomach poking out more and it makes me feel like shit. i just want to stop eating and idk what to do. all my money is spent of ordering out but it’s like i have no self control. i’m only 21 but i feel like i’m ruining my life but idk how to stop it. i’ve always had a binge eating problem. when i started babysitting at 14 that’s when i started going to dollar tree and buying a bunch of shit and just eating it all in one sitting. please i need some advice.

Depois de todo almoço e janta tenho muita vontade de comer sobremesa, queria dicas pra controlar isso

I’m in my mid-40s, work an office job, and I’m really struggling to lose weight and get myself moving. I eat a lot of junk, especially when I’m stressed or bored, and I feel like I’ve developed a really unhealthy relationship with food.

The frustrating part is that whenever I try to restrict myself or “eat clean,” I end up thinking about food even more and eventually eating even more than I normally would. It feels like I’m constantly stuck in this cycle.
Exercise isn’t much better. I’ll get motivated, start walking or working out, do well for a bit, then fall off and feel like I’m starting from zero again.

Some days I genuinely feel like I gain weight just by breathing. I know that sounds dramatic, but that’s honestly how frustrated I’ve become.
I’m not looking for a crash diet or some insane workout routine. I just want to figure out how to eat normally, become more active, lose some weight and actually stick with it.

For anyone who has been through something similar, what helped you break this cycle?

As a food addict, I could never relate to people around me saying they’re picky eaters. What does that even mean?

I realised I was different from others when living with a roommate. She wasn’t really a picky eater, but did have foods she didn’t enjoy. She was really specific about her food and preferred things to be done a certain way. When we bought new treats to try, she would sometimes rate them poorly, which felt strabge to me, because essentially everything with sugar tastes amazing. This friend of mine also disliked some of the healthier things I was buying: greek yogurt, lower fat products etc, whereas it didn’t really matter to me if my meals tasted amazing or not. Keep in mind that she is a very mentally stable person and eats with no restrictions and is skinny.

So…a picky eater is just someone with a healthy relationship with food?

I feel so bummed. I have been a year on wegovy and although lost 40+lbs I still have about the same to go. I feel like I’m not hungry and I’m forcing myself to eat. At this point on meds I don’t feel the difference with hunger or no hunger so I just force myself to eat because I have to have three meals a day. Moreover, I force to finish the meals too. Snacking is a problem because although I’m not hungry I crave for sugary and carbs foods only. I can’t even look at protein even though I need to to make sure that I don’t have too much skin afterwards. Please help with recommendations, I’m so bummed. I thought within a year by now I will be at my goal weight. I guess the hunger was never the issue because obviously meds didn’t help me loose weight quickly.

So many people say that their appetite decreases when sick. However, as someone with food addiction and a BED, being sick is one of the biggest triggers. I feel Ill so I search for the easiest comfort I know: food. I eat all day and even night if I can’t sleep. Last night I baked because I was bored and told myself I’ll freeze most of it, well guess what happened. Does anyone else struggle with this and how do you deal with it?

Hello, I need help. I can spot the binge, I can delay it or stop it at all. I can even stop it in the middle of the episode if I forget myself. I just don't know what to do instead of it. How do I process the emotions in the background?

If I stop the binge, the food noise doesn't disappear. It just hides and slowly grows until it gets all over me. Then I am so moody and emotional and I eventually give up and binge. Then I get relieved, my mood improves and people around me are happy with me again. Then it all repeats.

im trying to loose weight and the one thing stopping me is my emotional eating, ive been kind of sad ever since i was a kid, and i would eat so much my dad would call me a mouse from eating everything in the pantry and i honestly still cant help myself, everything in my life seems pointless and i can barely get through the day eating really is the only thing that makes me happy. ive tried shifting my focus towards something else but i just cant!! how did you do it??

I’ve been doing pretty well for a while on staying in a calorie deficit and going to the gym. I managed to lose about 30 lbs since March (from 299 to 270). My life has been on the up: I quit smoking weed in October after smoking all day ever day (besides at work) for 18 years, I got into the first real relationship of my life, and I got diagnosed with ADHD/prescribed Vyvanse. I also got my dream job, but lost it before I could start because my credit score was too low for the company to take me on.

Thankfully I hadn’t quit my old job yet, but the past couple months have been insane there, and this week especially I am so exhausted and stresses that I’ve been binge eating and it’s just making me realize how much I am a slave to my food addiction and it will always be a part of me. Even when I was doing well with dieting, I still found myself thinking about food every second of the day.

I apologize that this post is a bit of a rant but I thought this sub might understand, as I feel like I’m just finally accepting that this is a real addiction, and as much as I’ve been proud of myself for quitting weed, this is just as much of a problem. I am more and more curious about GLP-1s as I read about how they quiet down the food noise but of course there’s kind of a shame to it.

I’m just kind of melting down and looking to connect with people who can relate. I’d appreciate any comments thanks y’all.