I live a relatively active life but I struggle with eating too much. I feel like there is no diminishing returns when I eat something. Each chip tastes just as good as the last one. So I will be craving food but know it’s not healthy for me to eat more. I’m trying to find ways to ignore that feeling or dismiss it.
Are there any tips or methods you use to help with that? Impulse control is the hardest thing to work on sometimes.
My therapist told to try this thing recently where you suck on a candy or snack that you really like, don’t allow yourself to crunch it. Suck it until it dissolves.
Resisting giving into the frustration but of not being able to crunchit helps you with emotional regulation, feeling the emotion but not immediately reacting to it
Resisting crunching it because you want to taste that explosion of flavor helps you increase your ability to not only resist temptation but also to increase your ability to have the will to do the things you want to do.
It also interacts with that same oral fixation as eating, so you’re helping qualm some of those binging urges.
I do it with sugar free werther’s originals, it works surprisingly well
Candy sticks or canes are great for this. Lots of flavors, low calories, and they’re fun to eat.
I like doing it with M&Ms, for the texture change once you get through the shell. It’s a nice payoff for waiting.