How do I stop eating so much?

[Anonymous]

I eat a lot and I want to stop but I don't know how to. I'm overweight and I feel fat and disgusting because my weight is really starting to show. I'm 5'2 and I weigh 170lbs. I'm 17. I have 3 chins and its so embarrassing. I look at all the other beautiful skinny girls and I just feel awful. Someone please help.

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Also I'm a really picky eater and I don't eat vegetables because I don't like them. Fruit is okay to me but I just don't take the effort to eat it. I know its very unhealthy but I just don't like veggies.

[Anonymous]

Start finding good tasting, healthier foods to replace with the junk food! Lots of people picture losing weight as a fad diet that consists of salads as meals and handfuls of raisins as snacks. No. Eating like that isn't sustainable, or enjoyable, and any weight you lose from that will be quickly regained when you inevitably go back to eating normally.

Lets say a typical dinner consists of fried chicken and fries. How about you have grilled chicken with jasmine, brown, or wild rice instead? Of course it's important to control your portions, but your portions really don't have to be as tiny as you may think. For example, this is an example of a nice balanced plate:

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That's a decent amount of food, and there's many healthy substitutions and variations for things you don't like. Not a fan of chicken? Get some fish! Not a fan of plain ol green beans? How about some carrots boiled with some honey and cinnamon?

For snacks, things like sticks of cheese or nuts would be a good substitute for candy. You can have nuts with some dark chocolate or apple slices with some peanut butter or different flavored yogurt. Just don't STRESS about constantly eating only the healthiest of options or the tiniest of portions. Gradually start replacing the bad with good things THAT YOU ENJOY.

One important thing to do is cut out the sodas and juices. Buy sparkling water instead! Comes in so many flavors and many brands have zero calories and sugar, not to mention you can get several bottles for super cheap.

Don't forget exercise! Check out Blogilates, I love her. If you don't enjoy what I call formal exercise, start riding a bike or walking around the neighborhood or going for hikes. Find things that you can enjoy!

[Opinion Owner]

Just saw your update. From one picky eater to another, I understand. I'm actually the opposite though, I love veggies and don't really eat fruits! Since you like fruits, though, I suggest the apple slices with peanut butter (or you could even get a dark chocolate spread, just go easy on it). I also suggest putting fruits and nuts in your oatmeal and/or cereal.

[MITCH8]

1) Record everything you eat as a base line for 1 day. On the second day, cut down form the first by only eating the right proportions for 3 meals/ day and a healthy, nourishing, filling snack in between.
2) Exercise helps. If your not into that, at least go for some walks. Doesn't have to be power walking, but just to help boost your metabloism and burn some unnessary calories. This will also help you fell good.
3) Change what you eat. NOTE: this is hard, so you have to take it slow. Lets say for example you eat a 6 chocolate bars / day. This is what you need to cut back on -slowly, if you take it out of your diet completely in one day, you will have the ultimate craves and just lose the battle. So, try eating 5, to 3, to 1, to nothing, and replace that snack with something that has more fibre in it - this will fill you up.
4) Drink lots of water or tea.
5) If this doesn't work, keep in mind that it doesn't matter what other think about you. Life is too short and precious for thoughts like this. But, good luck.

[ChyadChadington]

Caffeine pills, don't be around snacks, walk, lift, eat lean meats and put down the cheese, salad, and fried foods. DONT EAT SALAD. salad has no nutrition and you're just gonna load it with cheese and bacon and ranch. The best option is to eat lean meats (chicken, steak, porkcuts, turkey, and tuna) and whole vegetables or fruits AND to make sure that they are prepared in healthy ways.

Dont fry your chicken
Don't throw cheese on x thing, cheese is horrible
AND DONT FRY YOUR CHEESE

also only drink water

you dont need to eat less. you need to eat BETTER

[redeyemindtricks]

People fry cheese? LOL

Like, often enough to justify a warning in all caps?

[ChyadChadington]

@redeyemindtricks
mozzarella sticks = fried cheese
quesadillas = fried cheese
grilled cheese = basically fried cheese
Jalapeno poppers = fried cheese

[redeyemindtricks]

Ah okay, so, non fried cheese, with fried coating.

Incidentally, you ever tried using parmesan cheese, as the ACTUAL fried base for something?
If yr doing the srs low-carb thing (but have room for high fat, or are actually trying to go ketogenic), then, parmesan cheese makes an awesome "crust" when you fry it. You can even use it as the base of a ≈0 carb "pizza".
Lots of calories, but, delicious.

[ChyadChadington]

@redeyemindtricks my mouth seriously dropped like... why would you even want to cut carbs like that? i can't even comprehend

[redeyemindtricks]

oh there's tons of legit reasons to drop carbs down to near zero, tons and tons and tons.

especially for women who play for #teamestrogen (as opposed to #teamprogesterone)... but there's plenty of reasons for boys to low-carb, too, at least for periods of a few weeks at a time.

I mean, basically EVERYONE should low-carb for at least a couple weeks every few months, just to reset insulin sensitivity if nothing else.
but, i'm surprised to see a question like this, considering there are like 18,570,432,650,874 other reasons for short-term VLC diets as well.

[BertMacklinFBI]

quesadillas is frying cheese? tf :P i thought frying cheese was literally letting it fry. cheese just melts when making a quesadilla xD

[ChyadChadington]

@BertMacklinFBI
Fry
- cook (food) in hot fat or oil, typically in a shallow pan.

[BertMacklinFBI]

yeah the cheese isn't sitting in hot fat or oil, not my quesadillas at least lol.

[madhatters4]

it's just about will power and healthy eating

dedicate yourself to eating 3 square meals and make sure you are getting at the very least the daily recommended amount of veggies (for me a green smoothie with fruits mixed with spinach or kale is an easy way to get more than your daily requirement of veggie).

limit your snacking and find healthy alternatives to snack on

[BertMacklinFBI]

you know what they say actually helps?

using smaller plates.

[Sexualchrist]

Start off reducing your intake to 9 cheeseburgers a day, then 8, then 7 and so on.

When you get down to the 3 cheeseburgers a day mark, replace one with a salad and stick with that for a couple of days and then replace another one of those cheeseburgers with some kind of lean meat, like grilled chicken or fish then finally phase the last cheeseburger out with some fruit and from then on only have cheeseburgers as a sometimes food and only 1 at a time.

[Anonymous]

no short cut, eat less and move more , google how many calories your body needs daily and eat at least 200-300 less, space the meals to feel more full and drink more water also cut the snacks and sweets , worked for me and many others and will work for you.

[Sojex]

No outside influence is gonna make you stop eating the way you do. No one can flip the switch for you. You need to look within and find that thing that's gonna make you want to start living your life differently. Only you can wake yourself up.

[oldanddecrepid]

Lock/timer on the fridge! Prepare just enough food with no leftovers.

[Anonymous]

eat the healthy food before you get cravings for garbage. You need to eat better, not less.

No vegetables is going to make healthy eating -nearly impossible-.

[Anonymous]

I have an idea, how about you stop putting food in your mouth and put my cock in your mouth instead...>I'm sorry I had to XD

But seriously I used to have the same problem, i totaly get where you're coming from

[Polocrew]

Relax, Make a plan, divide it in short term goals, kill short term goals, make more goals. It's really easy OP

[rgb008]

Work out and eat satisfying healthy meals.

[bustas]

coffee usually make me eat less..

[KBob93]

Trololol

[Asker]

What's that supposed to mean?

[CarryMeAway]

Wtf.

[apple24]

eat whole grains!