Thinking about food too much
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:22 am
I feel that I am always thinking about food.
I find that I am always thinking about my next meal. I even look forward to bed time so that I can wake up and have my coffee and eat breakfast. I feel like I'm wishing the hours between meals away and the days between S days away. I don't want to rush my days, I want to enjoy them. The good news is none of my 'food thoughts' are negative but I still do not want to think about food all day and all night.
It's not physical hunger either, I have no problem lasting 5 hours between meals which is shocking since 4 weeks ago I thought I would die if I had to go more than 3 hours without eating.
Maybe I just haven't figured out how to replace the time that I use to use for snacking as yet. I literally use to snack from lunchtime until I went to bed, skipping dinner on most days because I was never hungry enough for a real meal but I could still keep on snacking. I guess I can't expect to change a lifetime of habits in 24 days but it's starting to annoy me.
I'm a little concerned that food is one of my biggest joys in my life since it appears to be what I look forward to all day long. I've been food/weight obsessed since I can remember so now that I have taken away snacking I am having a hard time figuring out what else I enjoy doing. My whole life was eating, cooking, baking, baking for family and friends, reading cookbooks, reading fitness magazines, planning a diet, giving up on diets and snacking, snacking and more snacking. I'm starting to see the problem now that I have typed this out. Yikes!!
Has anyone else experienced this and if so does it eventually fade?
I find that I am always thinking about my next meal. I even look forward to bed time so that I can wake up and have my coffee and eat breakfast. I feel like I'm wishing the hours between meals away and the days between S days away. I don't want to rush my days, I want to enjoy them. The good news is none of my 'food thoughts' are negative but I still do not want to think about food all day and all night.
It's not physical hunger either, I have no problem lasting 5 hours between meals which is shocking since 4 weeks ago I thought I would die if I had to go more than 3 hours without eating.
Maybe I just haven't figured out how to replace the time that I use to use for snacking as yet. I literally use to snack from lunchtime until I went to bed, skipping dinner on most days because I was never hungry enough for a real meal but I could still keep on snacking. I guess I can't expect to change a lifetime of habits in 24 days but it's starting to annoy me.
I'm a little concerned that food is one of my biggest joys in my life since it appears to be what I look forward to all day long. I've been food/weight obsessed since I can remember so now that I have taken away snacking I am having a hard time figuring out what else I enjoy doing. My whole life was eating, cooking, baking, baking for family and friends, reading cookbooks, reading fitness magazines, planning a diet, giving up on diets and snacking, snacking and more snacking. I'm starting to see the problem now that I have typed this out. Yikes!!
Has anyone else experienced this and if so does it eventually fade?