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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've
never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
"monalza2779" wrote in message oups.com... I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? I wonder how old you are. I didn't like veggies much before I turned 22 and started eating chinese. I looked down on anything that wasn't meat. Salad dressings disgusted me. Veggies were boring. Of course back then all my veggies came out of cans. They were gross. I don't eat that stuff today. Once I started eating chinese (essentially stir fried fresh veggies) I loved the stuff. I eventually grew to like tofu. These days I love greens which are basically boiled leaves. I like creamy dressings. It took years for me change those attitudes, but don't get me wrong the changes haven't been for the good. I'm heavier now than ever. And it's a bad thing to learn to like salad dressings. They're full of saturated fats and calories. So maybe our taste buds change with time. My guess is that a lot of it is mental. On the other hand veggies without soy sauce or creamy dressings are inedible to me. I'll eat them that way sometimes, but it's not enjoyable. |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
On Jul 29, 6:34 pm, monalza2779 wrote:
I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? You have to "train" yourself to like food. You can do it cold turkey, but just refusing to eat high calorie foods...I am not opposed to carbs at all, just fat and high-cal. foods. I simply do not eat them. I prefer them, but you cannot trust your animal instincts where food is concerned. Nature says you should eat lots of high fat foods to survive even though we haven't had to do that for thousands of years for the most part. When you get hungry enough, even the veggies you don't care for are passable. I love ice cream, peanut butter, chocolae chip cookies, pecan pie, etc. etc., but I refuse to eat a small portion cause that would only make it WORSE. I went pretty much cold turkey from your kind of diet and 230 lbs. to very little fat and a vegetarian diet. That was 3 years ago, and I've weighed 135 lbs. for almost 2 years now. You have to count those calories though. That means you can still eat those foods you mentioned, but not so much. I much prefer to eat LOTS of low calorie foods. That's what works for me, but it might be completely different for you, although you have to count calories no matter what kind of diet you are on. dkw |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
hey sounds like me. I didn't like veggies until I was like 25.
veggies are gross, bitter! I also started liking veggies when I eat more vegetarian chinese and thai. You know sooner or later u have to eat veggies. So for starters, u could try cooked spinach or cauliflower. Eat plenty of fibre, like brown rice, wholewheat stuff etc... etc... Some Chinese mock pork are made of mushroom's stem. I swear some are frigteningly real ! (beware though, many contains food additives like msg). what bout steamed cabbage roll? if u cook soup, just add some frozen chopped spinach, and it wont taste like veggie, practically tasteless. Mixture of mayo and sliced carrots eaten with fries are delicious. There are 'healthy junk food & soda' from organic stores u could try for your cravings. There's even high quality vegetable extract in liquid or powder form. On Jul 30, 11:26 am, "po" wrote: "monalza2779" wrote in message oups.com... I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? I wonder how old you are. I didn't like veggies much before I turned 22 and started eating chinese. I looked down on anything that wasn't meat. Salad dressings disgusted me. Veggies were boring. Of course back then all my veggies came out of cans. They were gross. I don't eat that stuff today. Once I started eating chinese (essentially stir fried fresh veggies) I loved the stuff. I eventually grew to like tofu. These days I love greens which are basically boiled leaves. I like creamy dressings. It took years for me change those attitudes, but don't get me wrong the changes haven't been for the good. I'm heavier now than ever. And it's a bad thing to learn to like salad dressings. They're full of saturated fats and calories. So maybe our taste buds change with time. My guess is that a lot of it is mental. On the other hand veggies without soy sauce or creamy dressings are inedible to me. I'll eat them that way sometimes, but it's not enjoyable.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
thank you for all your replies. I will try some of your suggestions.
I am 28 years old, 5'5", and about 225 lbs. I recently broke up with my boyfriend, who i believed, would sabatoge me and my diets. He was very controlling and jealous. He also didn't have very good eating habits and we both didn't like to cook so I think I developed some bad habits from him as well. I'm back at my parents house now and hopefully I will be able to afford to move out on my own in september. For now, I eat whatever my mom makes for dinner, which is usually a healthy meal but once the weekends come...it's over..mcdonalds it is. I also drink beer. Which I need to stop doing, not only for my weight, but for other reasons. |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
wrote in message ups.com... On Jul 29, 6:34 pm, monalza2779 wrote: I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? You have to "train" yourself to like food. You can do it cold turkey, but just refusing to eat high calorie foods...I am not opposed to carbs at all, just fat and high-cal. foods. I simply do not eat them. I prefer them, but you cannot trust your animal instincts where food is concerned. Nature says you should eat lots of high fat foods to survive even though we haven't had to do that for thousands of years for the most part. When you get hungry enough, even the veggies you don't care for are passable. I love ice cream, peanut butter, chocolae chip cookies, pecan pie, etc. etc., but I refuse to eat a small portion cause that would only make it WORSE. I went pretty much cold turkey from your kind of diet and 230 lbs. to very little fat and a vegetarian diet. That was 3 years ago, and I've weighed 135 lbs. for almost 2 years now. You have to count those calories though. That means you can still eat those foods you mentioned, but not so much. I much prefer to eat LOTS of low calorie foods. That's what works for me, but it might be completely different for you, although you have to count calories no matter what kind of diet you are on. dkw I did that once - train myself to eat healthier foods, totally gave up ice cream, pizza and chips. It worked for less than five years and this is very common with diets. One day I was at the beach. I was thin. I saw these kids buying hot dogs and having fun and I never wanted a hot dog so bad in my life. I could have cried, lol. I got tired of not being able to eat what I wanted. I went back to pizza and chips. I ate more veggies. I'd eat spinach pie (lotsa cheese) and pretty soon I was fatter than ever. I don't mean to be negative. That's just the way it was. I fell off the wagon. Of course that's not the end of the story. The weight came back on unbelievably fast. I went from being in total control to being out of control. It was very depressing. I felt it was something happening to me, but at the same time I knew if I was good enough, I could control it so the blame was all on me. |
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I think I'm addicted to food and alergic to exercising!
On Jul 30, 2:37 pm, "po" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... On Jul 29, 6:34 pm, monalza2779 wrote: I think I'm addicted to food - correction - carbs and junk food. I've never been a good eater my whole life. I hate most vegetables! I really do wish I liked veggies and liked healthy food. Has there been a study done about people's taste buds being different?? cause I don't get it! healthy food tastes gross! is it just me and the way I taste things? or is that really how they taste?? I have to choke it down half the time and it's really an awful experience. Sometimes I think I'm just crazy and to suck it up and force myself to eat it and I'll get use to it but that only lasts for so long and then I can't take it anymore. Back to eating the same junk/crap as usual. I feel so guilty and hopeless when this happens and I don't know what to do. I feel hopeless. I feel I have no control. I've tried starving myself before because I hate food so much but that doesn't last long at all...it's almost as if as soon as I think about starving myself, I go to the cupboard and start eating.....can anybody help me? or am I a lost cause? You have to "train" yourself to like food. You can do it cold turkey, but just refusing to eat high calorie foods...I am not opposed to carbs at all, just fat and high-cal. foods. I simply do not eat them. I prefer them, but you cannot trust your animal instincts where food is concerned. Nature says you should eat lots of high fat foods to survive even though we haven't had to do that for thousands of years for the most part. When you get hungry enough, even the veggies you don't care for are passable. I love ice cream, peanut butter, chocolae chip cookies, pecan pie, etc. etc., but I refuse to eat a small portion cause that would only make it WORSE. I went pretty much cold turkey from your kind of diet and 230 lbs. to very little fat and a vegetarian diet. That was 3 years ago, and I've weighed 135 lbs. for almost 2 years now. You have to count those calories though. That means you can still eat those foods you mentioned, but not so much. I much prefer to eat LOTS of low calorie foods. That's what works for me, but it might be completely different for you, although you have to count calories no matter what kind of diet you are on. dkw I did that once - train myself to eat healthier foods, totally gave up ice cream, pizza and chips. It worked for less than five years and this is very common with diets. One day I was at the beach. I was thin. I saw these kids buying hot dogs and having fun and I never wanted a hot dog so bad in my life. I could have cried, lol. I got tired of not being able to eat what I wanted. I went back to pizza and chips. I ate more veggies. I'd eat spinach pie (lotsa cheese) and pretty soon I was fatter than ever. I don't mean to be negative. That's just the way it was. I fell off the wagon. Of course that's not the end of the story. The weight came back on unbelievably fast. I went from being in total control to being out of control. It was very depressing. I felt it was something happening to me, but at the same time I knew if I was good enough, I could control it so the blame was all on me.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - There are always signs that you are off your diet. Things like NOT weighing yourself and not working out are 2 of them. Also, you know from the moment it starts that you are off your diet. Diets fail when people cannot make some transition from dieting to maintenance and this is common. If you make the transition reasonable and monitor any changes, you'll be OK though. I weigh myself every day. I did get up to 140 a few weeks ago and so I reduced my calories from 2300 to 1800 and lost the 5 pounds. I never intended to eat 2300 cal, but realized after a few months of gradually gaining the 5 pounds that I was using a nonstandard Tablespoon to measure my farina and grits, so was getting a lot more than I thought. Now I am at 135 and consume 1900 cal. This is very reasonable for me and has to do with the quantity of food, not the quality. My diet consists of oatmeal with blueberries, egg beaters for protein, lots of salads without dressing, nonfat pudding, toast with the Promise fat free, a bowl of farina mixed with grits...a really big bowl. I eat a lot of oats and reducing the calories involved just decreasing the oatmeal by 3 bowls-ful a day. I am single so I don't have to feel guilty about not eating someone's cooking or going the their fav. restaurant which might leave me with nothing much to eat. I always go to the same few restaurants that have good salad bars. My daughter is also vegetarian, so it makes it a lot easier, though, because she likes the salad bar restaurants, but usually gets cheese pizza. I do not eat cheese because it is too fat. I know this is a boring diet, but I LOVE it and get a lot of good food to eat. I will NEVER be fat again. Like I said it has been over 2 years and it is not really difficult for me at this point to maintain my weight. I also work out 6X a week, am 61 years old and in the best shape I've ever been...not counting my older age of course. BP, heart rate, cholesterol are all LOW. I agree it is difficult to maintain a routine if you were ever overweight cause you tend to slide back into old habits...but once you are commited, really commited to weight loss AND then maintenance, you won't gain the weight back. That's where I am. There are lots of different ways to diet and maintain your new weight successfully. My way would not work for many people perhaps out of boredom, pressures from work or their significant other, etc. etc. ....but, once someone makes the commitment, it does and will work PERMANENTLY. dkw |
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