Topic : Overeating

 I know it sounds trite, but that's exactly what you need to do here. You are a valuable, deserving person, just as we all are. How dare those women tell you that you won't make it! We all have different approaches and different speeds of accomplishing goals, depending on where we are starting from. When one of the idiots makes a statement like that, look her in the eye and tell her that it's no wonder the place doesn't get more business with an unhelpful attitude like that! Tap into your anger and use it to fuel an attitude of proving them wrong. Because they ARE wrong.
Get Dr Phil's ULTIMATE WEIGHT LOSS SOLUTION. Ask for it for Christmas or something. Losing weight is about much more than counting calories and exercising. I suspect one of your main stumbling blocks is your personal truth about yourself.

 Well, it's the end of my 4th week of my last diet ever. I have gained back the 5 lbs I lost, but I'm not giving up. Over Thanksgiving week and the week after that while visiting relatives I gained some valuable insights on my stumbling blocks. I do very well by myself at home, but need a plan of action and some boundaries when around friends and family. I also need to schedule my time better when these things come up. (It's all about the preparation and programming!)
Anyway, this is the OVEREATING thread, so I will comment on what I've learned about myself. At my age-almost 49-it doesn't take much to eat more than I need. When I was younger, I could eat pretty much what I wanted and not worry. But as I get older, the amount I need is less and less, and I'm constantly redefining my portions. I've learned not to stuff myself anymore. Thanks to Dr Phil's wonderful books I no longer need to console myself with food. I'm getting a pretty good handle on the combination of food to exercise that I need to lose weight. If I eat too much, I need to work out longer or more intensely, if I miss a work out, I need to eat even less that day. And this is just to maintain weight! To lose, I must do both religiously. However, when I do everything right, the weight does come off readily. It's not that difficult. The hardest part of weight loss is getting past the mind games we play to justify our eating.

are there any teens struggling with weight/food issues? im looking for some support....  i want to lose 10-15 lbs but it seems that whenever i take 2 steps forward, i take 3 steps back. i always revert back to my old habits........sooo frustrating!! 

any advice?? 

Hey everyone.  I am 19 years old and I weigh 145 pounds.  I am 5ft 0in.  I eat about every hour.  I need to not eat as much.  When I get stressed out I eat alot or when I get mad at my boyfriend.  I just want to lose 20 pounds.  I don't like to exercise.  Is there any way I can just change my diet and lose weight without working out? Can someone get back to me on this one.

 Hey how are you?.You can cut out foods with sugar and don't drink any soda pop or soft drinks. Start drinking water in between meals ans about 20 minutes before a meal, That way you won't eat as much. Eat your meals slowly. How about you just start walking 30 minutes a day, to start of with. For any of us to lose weight is that we have to eat less and move (exercise) more. 

Good luck with your goal to lose 20lbs, I need to lose about 30lbs myself. 

See Ya. 

 Happy to report that I DID NOT overeat at the Christmas dinner I went to. My reward was walking out of the restaurant  feeling satisfied but not stuffed and bloated.
I just finished reading chapter 7, Key 4: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating. I've always been a fast eater and I'm going to take some of the suggestions and make them my new eating style. I'm going to stretch my meals out to 30 minutes or more, that way I'll know I'm full BEFORE I've eaten way too much. I also like to eat while watching TV, but the way I do it is to dish up my food and take it to the living room where the TV is. I don't get seconds, but it is rather mindless eating. I may change that habit too. I never eat snacks while watching, I learned long ago that that is a major fat building habit.

  

I get over eat when there is depression negative arguements for small things and no respect love. 

Thats why I need to seperate my husband because of my weight.  

Maybe instead be seperate send me to dr phil and put me on boot camp for weigh watcher. I would be much happier to listened to his advice unless good thing to have my husband to come along we can do it together as team. 

I am currently reading Dr Phil's weight loss book again. I read it about 2 years ago and lost about 15 lbs. My goal was to lose 40. I don't know what happened, but I just quit doing anything proactive to lose weight. Went right back to my problems with bingeing and stopped exercising at all. So, of course, I put on the weight I had lost and then some. I have started walking 45 min. a day, but my eating is still out of control. I plan to clean out my fridge and pantry on new year's and give it another go. I was hoping that there might be someone out there who could offer some support. I am ready to do whatever it takes to lose this weight. I am 23, but I feel much, much older than that, because of all the extra weight I carry around. My hips and knees bother me and I have almost no energy. I'm 5'7" and 190 lbs. I've always had major food issues even as a child, but I stayed active enough that it never showed physically. It didn't become an issue externally until I got pregnant twice in the same year. My kids are 11 months apart and being pregnant made some major changes on my body and I don't think that I have learned to accept this new body I have. I don't know how to have a healthy relationship with food. I am addicted, but it's not like with other addictions like smoking, drugs, alcohol, etc. because you can find a way to cut those things out of your life. They aren't neccasary. But with food, I just can't cut it out of my life. i have to find a way I guess to have balance and devolop a new view on food. That concept just seems so overwhelming. Any suggestions?

 What may have happened is that something came up that distracted you, and since your new thinking and habits were not yet a part of your life, you fell into old patterns. The old patterns are comfortable, but as you can see, they don't satisfy. This has happened to me in the past too. This time I'm really paying attention to the work I need to accomplish with my thoughts and reactions. Go back and read the book again, the second time can bring home information you may have glossed over the first time. Figure out what it was that derailed you last time so it won't happen again.
Good luck, and you're not alone. I'm also reading the book for the second time. I'm taking it a key per week so it has time to sink in. I'm on chapter 7, Key 4 and will be moving to chapter 8 on Monday.

Thank  you for taking the time to respond to my message. I used to go to the message board for 20-somethings trying to lose weight, but nobody goes to that one anymore. I guess in my previous message I shouldn't have said I didn't know why I gave up on my goals a few years back. I know the reason, I just don't know how to get past the reason. The same thing happens over and over again. You think I'd have figured it out by now. How to get and keep the weight off. I have a condition (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)that makes it really difficult to lose weight, but really easy to gain. Not that I have the healthiest eating patterns, but I should not weigh what I do based on my diet and calorie intake. I have kept food journals alot in the past so that maybe it would show me if I was taking in more than I thought I was, but I was eating a normal amount of calories daily. My problem is that I lose like the first 10 or so pounds farely easily and then after that I am not seeing any results and it gets to be very discouraging. You know, putting in all that effort and "sacrificing" what you love to eat and getting no payoff. Maybe I need another mind set. Like I have tried to tell myself this time that it isn't about losing weight and getting skinny, but about being healthier. If I am walking everyday and eating healthy, then even if I don't lose weight then at least I am healthier and will feel better and have more energy, etc. I would love to hear any tips and suggestions that have worked for you.