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I'm wondering how people deal with this sort of unhealthy eating? (I haven't added flair or anything, but I want to move from 195 lbs to 165 lbs, which is a touch overweight to normal weight.) One of my motivations for losing weight is how blindingly clear to me that my weight is driven totally by unhealthy eating. I need to, and have, accepted that I'm attractive, healthy, active, but it's not exactly that I'm overweight just by technicality either and I have had some relatively minor but real health problems correlated with poor eating habits.
I tend to overeat from stress, when food is just really distracting and much better to focus on than whatever difficult thing I'm supposed to be doing. I also tend to fixate on indulging so that my primary relationships to food are withholding or indulging. If I withhold I'm likely to drift into a lower-appetite state, but at some point an inner spike in the feeling of just "letting go" works its way over my resistance, and there is nooooo going back. It's also really hard for me to lose more than 5-10 lbs because I become fairly happy with my body then and the motivation doesn't compare to the newfound availability of junk food.
I've tried pretty restrictive diets, like no dessert / low sugar which I actually stayed on for over a year. It cut about 5-10 pounds but they drifted back since I adapted my poor eating to starches and fried food, then at some point I just felt, what's the point staying off sugar now.
I'm wondering if anyone's confronted these sort of withhold, stress, indulge patterns. They're painfully psychologically driven (I'm in therapy and just recently explicitly "working on" weight). I think much deeper changes in how I think and relate to food are needed than just incisive diet rules that won't really be long term.
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