I want to eat all the time !!!

Most of us don't need to learn how to eat. We need to learn how NOT to eat. We use food for comfort, to allay boredom and to avoid facing our feelings. Using your pouch correctly -- eating meals quickly, eating mostly protein and veggies, avoiding liquids with meals (water-load the hour before you eat) will keep you full longer. But in the past, being full was never a good reason to stop eating, was it? If you want to shed your old habits, you need to be conscious of WHY you eat. Stop and think about what you're feeling when you reach for that between-meal protein bar. As author Geneen Roth puts it (with my minor revision), Eat whenever you're hungry and feel what you feel when you aren't. This is the big fight. Good luck.

Sometimes if im having head hunger i also drink.  but i love hot tea so i will make something like that full of flavor, or broth if i want something savory.  then by belly is super full feeling and i feel like i "gave in"  when really i didnt.  take that head hunger!!! lol

good luck to you 

It is most likely all the low fat carby food you eat that finally affecting you. 

That's why most of us try to eat more preoteins, fats, and skip on starchy carbs. As nice as "bowl of brown rice with beans" may sound, meal like that is full of carbs that may stimulate insulin response and hunger... 

Nice meat, with a helping of some non starchy veggies,  a few slices of an avocado... And I am full for hours. 

Using high fat nuts as a snack keeps me full. 

I think it might be a good time to talk to a therapist. It is not easy when we have head hunger. I have when I read a recipe or watch the Food Network.

Try to figure out what triggers you wanting to eat all the time. I would journal my food and write down what I was feeling when I ate it. Was I eating it because it was time to eat which we are taught. 

I am sorry you are going through a rough time. 

Thanks for your kind sympathy Bassethounds (((())) regarding the head hunger .  Its SO WEIRD to feel not hungry at all physically and still crave excess food and calories ... so obviously a desire to stuff feelings . 

i've been working VERY hard on normalizing my life - reducing stress particularly economic stress... looking at self-hurting or just my needs unheeding  choices I've made in the past and attempting to make far better ones now.

I'm picking low-hanging fruit economically which is surprisingly abundant - seems like I set up the framework for success long ago and then abandoned myself.  

I'm finishing rental units now and actually showing them .. COOL :) I'mn proud of myself .  Regarding my non-hungry overeating habits ... not so much 

This was in my mail today.

While in the grip of my disease I tried many things to deal with my compulsive overeating. I tried many, many diets, fasting, exercise programs, treatment, therapy, church and even resorted to weight loss surgery. I did the same thing over and over again - I tried outward solutions to fix an inward problem. And the sad thing was I somehow thought that I would get different results: a permanent change of my compulsive overeating. But it did not work that way. It was acting with insanity. I was frustrated and very, very sad. All along, I knew there was something wrong with me, that I was not "normal", but I didn't know what to do about it.

Then the blessing of the program came to me. I learned about Step Two: "Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity." I came to believe that was true. I finally was doing something different. Never before had I approached my compulsive overeating on three levels all at the same time. I had never seen my disease as a physical, emotional and spiritual disease that needed addressing at the same time, one day at a time. I began to slowly learn how to do this through the steps and the tools, with the help of sponsors and friends in the program. I found myself doing something different and getting different results. I found my sanity returning, piece by piece.
One Day at a Time . . .
I will do something different, knowing I will get different results.
Sharon S.
A TRG Member
The Recovery Group

Are you seeing a therapist?  

Absolutely