Why is my feel full signal turned off?????

I really do know why. My metabolism is shut down & my stomach is completely stretched out.

Why can't I get a grip on my emotional bored eating? Every night I eat & eat & eat. I don't want to do this but I do.

I wish that I could just get motivated to start exercising & eating properly. Sometimes, I excuse myself by saying that "right now I am focusing on my emotional issues & when the time is right I will work on my outside". The problem with this is that years are passing by with no change in my eating habits. This is all taking a toll on my emotional & physical wellbeing.

I completely understand this. I'm totally not motivated at all and eat and eat and just sit at the computer for hours on end. This has been going on a few years for me as well, minus the points where I went weight crazy and started eating little and excersizing crazily, but that just stopped when I had more time. So you're not alone, if that helps!

It takes 20 minutes of eating before you will get any signals; I sometimes use my breakfast cereal flakes as "chips" and eat them one at a time when I'm just feeling like munching. They're good vitamins/fiber (Kellogg's Complete Wheat Bran Flakes) and large enough so I can fake myself out; they're both sweet and savory.

I think you have to come up with something else to do if you don't want to do the computer/eat thing? Can you change venues and get books/read in your bedroom or something? That's what I do, go to bed with a good book for my Nook reader and read for 2-3 hours at night. I try to force myself to go out, somewhere, each day; it only takes 22 minutes of "exercise" a day to be healthy so I go grocery shopping or to the library or some other shopping or chores each day and that's helping me a lot. Being "out and about" I call it; gives me new ideas and I see "new" things and it helps my mood as well as my body.

Hi Kelsey63,

I am so sorry you feel the way you do and I could not have explained it any better than you just did! Somebody actually understands!!!

P.S. I just started a thread requesting to join this group if that's okay w/you all (?)