Story: No Way to Stop

How was it then?

If I started to eat, then there was no way to stop. I would try to start eating as late in the day as possible so there was a better chance that I could keep the total amount that I ate in a day from being too much. But it didn’t matter. As soon as I started to eat, I would be hungry for the rest of the day. For example, I would skip breakfast, but then I would get hungry at around 10:30 am and would start looking around my office for things to eat. At that time, it wouldn’t make sense to eat my lunch, so I would keep various snacks in my desk such as crackers, granola bars, chocolate bars, cookies, etc., and I would eat one of those. But then I had “broken the seal” and I would continue feeling hungry until lunchtime. Then I would eat the lunch that I had bought from a store at lunchtime, and it would be too many calories, and not the right foods, and I would still be hungry. In order to force myself to stop eating, I would often eat a chocolate bar, because I noticed that after I ate a chocolate bar, I tended to stop eating. But then that stopped working, and I found myself wanting another chocolate bar.

~ A Food Addict

How is it now?

I eat my meal, which is enough to fuel me to my next meal. When I am finished eating my meal, I stop eating. Then, when it is time to eat the next meal, I eat the next meal.

~ A Recovering Food Addict