[geez]

I am an overeater and look to food for comfort - typically. I have been eating well and exercising for almost a year now and I'm much healthier and I'm no longer obese. My problem lies in this: At times even when I'm full I want to keep eating and I try to eat foods that are sweet or what I think would be comforting (which isn't much these days because my home is almost 100% free of these temptations - but the urge is still there).

Because I have such a healthy diet my tastes have changed and what used to be comforting for me is now gross (isn't satisfying in any way). What I have been doing is eating what used to be comforting foods and I don't feel that satisfaction I used to have. I do this over and over again hoping for that same old feeling of comfort and it doesn't work.

Has anyone gone through this? Do I try to replace the need for comfort from food with something else?.... or is the real answer to find the why I need the comfort from food. What am I seeking comfort for??

Anyone grapple with these types of questions and what where the answers for you?

[Ygrec23]

Originally Posted by geez

I am an overeater and look to food for comfort - typically. I have been eating well and exercising for almost a year now and I'm much healthier and I'm no longer obese. My problem lies in this: At times even when I'm full I want to keep eating and I try to eat foods that are sweet or what I think would be comforting (which isn't much these days because my home is almost 100% free of these temptations - but the urge is still there). Because I have such a healthy diet my tastes have changed and what used to be comforting for me is now gross (isn't satisfying in any way). What I have been doing is eating what used to be comforting foods and I don't feel that satisfaction I used to have. I do this over and over again hoping for that same old feeling of comfort and it doesn't work. Has anyone gone through this? Do I try to replace the need for comfort from food with something else?.... or is the real answer to find the why I need the comfort from food. What am I seeking comfort for?? Anyone grapple with these types of questions and what where the answers for you?

Hey, geez!

Yeah, I've grappled with those question but haven't solved them yet. I still love starch. However, there was an article somewhere last week about how imagining your eating forbidden food (really seriously imagining) can give you the same satisfaction as actually eating. Sounds weird, I know, but look for the article and maybe it will help. I'll look too and if I find it I'll post the URL here. Take care!