"Just eat the whole box of spaghetti and the entire jar of sauce. Deal with the fallout later."

[amaguri]

There are specific foods that do this to me. One of the worst offenders is pizza, because I always want another slice, especially when it’s at the perfect “not too hot, not too cold” temperature. Unlike most people, I don’t like leftover pizza (in fact, I don’t much like leftovers at all) and so I could quite easily polish off a large pizza by myself if I wasn’t thinking clearly.

[Kropotkin]

Boy, does this OP register. And the suggestions from others are useful. I am trying to change our family motto, which is “Eat past the pain,” to little avail.

[Guinastasia]

@gigi

Or two boxes of orange mac and cheese and a package of hot dogs.

Wait – you mean, you eat all of that at once? gigi, I mean this in all sincerity, and I’m not trying to be nasty, but that’s heading into serious eating disorder territory.

[Skammer]

CK Louis: “Full? The meal is not over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”

[TriPolar]

@kanicbird

Does the voice ever tell you ‘good things’ to do, like don’t have that quart of ice cream? If it does both encourage the good side and thank it if you listen to it.

I hear directly from the food, and food always wants to be eaten, just like motorcycles want to be ridden.

[BeeGee]

@SpoilerVirgin

I spent 25 years fighting those feelings, and blaming myself for not have more willpower and self-discipline. Then I finally went to therapy, and learned a lot of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques. I can honestly say that it’s been over seven years since I’ve heard that voice. People commend me all the time on my fabulous willpower. I used to try to explain to them that I don’t have a lot of willpower, I just no longer have food urges that need fighting. But no one wanted to hear it, so I stopped explaining.

The bottom line is that if it’s really important to you, you can make those feelings go away. But it takes a ridiculous amount of work. You have to figure out better ways to deal with the feelings that are making you want to eat.

I also used to tell everyone who had food issues that they should try therapy. Then I realized that we all have different issues that need different solutions. But if the issue is what’s going on in your head, then the only way to resolve it is to address your thoughts directly, and CBT is the best way I know to do that.

I endorse this message. As a kid, I had a mother who wanted to control how much I ate, a grandmother who tried to convince me to become bulemic so I’d lose weight (I was 12), and then a husband who berated me* for even wanting to eat.

Yeah, I got food issues. I learned to eat when no one was looking so I’d stop and get a hamburger and fries after work and then cook dinner and eat a meal while I was cooking and then eat a meal with my husband-- but a very small one. Yeah, that didn’t work. After I divorced, I became a frequenter of all you can eat buffets. Many tears and much work on how and why I felt, I don’t do that any more. Sure, the little voices come for a visit every once in awhile, and I secretly feel superior and proud if I go all weekend without eating at all. But overall, that is my past, not my future.

*cursing, screaming, 2am wake-up calls to stand up and hear everything that was wrong with me.

[QuickSilver]

@BeeGee

*cursing, screaming, 2am wake-up calls to stand up and hear everything that was wrong with me.

…JFC…

[gigi]

@Guinastasia

Wait – you mean, you eat all of that at once? gigi, I mean this in all sincerity, and I’m not trying to be nasty, but that’s heading into serious eating disorder territory.

I passed serious eating disorder territory years ago. But I don’t eat like that all the time, mostly because there is another person in the house observing me.

@amaguri

There are specific foods that do this to me. One of the worst offenders is pizza, because I always want another slice, especially when it’s at the perfect “not too hot, not too cold” temperature. Unlike most people, I don’t like leftover pizza (in fact, I don’t much like leftovers at all) and so I could quite easily polish off a large pizza by myself if I wasn’t thinking clearly.

Pizza is my worst trigger food. If one piece is good, eight is better. Oh yeah, no leftovers here either because every binge is the last binge and I clean up after each one – because tomorrow will be clean and new and different. Until it’s just like yesterday.

[purplehearingaid]

No I never had that happen to me , I get about 4 meals out of a box of spaghetti,
I have a salad with my spaghetti .

[tim314]

I have had that urge, I have listened to that urge, I have regretted listening to that urge, and I’ve drowned out that regret with more food.

[Bam_Boo_Gut]

I can’t buy a weeks worth of groceries, I’ll snack on the way home from the store, ok it’s grapes, but can’t I just not? Then the urge is to have a little taste of everything so all the easy stuff is gone quickly and I’m down to the lentil soup, better not make a big potful of that either.

Pasta makes me sleepy, but bread I can go through, so I’ll have to not have any bread in the house for a few days a week. I’m now moving back into a less urgey phase and what a relief it is.