Sometimea you might not realize that you’re actually thirsty. Drink a glass of water and see if that helps. Meds cause dehydration.

Ready to eat quick food that is relatively healthy. Bananas, carrots, celery, rice cakes, chewing gum, water. Short circuit the junk snacks with fruits and veggies that are more easily accessed or at least as easy. I also had premade meals delivered. Make it to where it’s a hassle to get access to unhealthy food. Hard to go through the trouble to get the junk food when the healthy stuff is readily available.

I managed to wire myself with a trigger to answer my inner dialogue of “I can’t …” with “Well what CAN you do?”

In case of the escalating snacking, I realised that I can’t just switch them out with something healthy. But I CAN make a plate of raw carrots, apple slices, cucumbers etc. and set it up at my desk. Surprisingly, that was already one big leap forward. Even my sloth mind - especially my sloth mind - would rather chew on a carrot right now than get a chocolate bar from the kitchen. Beat it with its own weapons.

Pre-measure your snacks into a reasonable portion size. Go ahead and refill the container if you want more. It gets tedious pretty quickly which stops you from eating, and helps you realize just how much you’ve had so the disgust kicks in and you realize what you’re doing to yourself.

Overeating has been my thing. I’ve done two main things. First, exercise. Exercise has been so helpful. I like to exercise in twenty minutes bouts and so do two session. I’ve known this about myself for a while and couldn’t do it. Two things helped. First, doing something at home. And second, taking creatine. Exercise has been difficult because of not having enough energy and creatine has been helpful at a low dose.

The other things that have helped is taking a digestive with my meal. I always felt tired after a meal, but the supplement helped. Finally, ending the day with psyllium. It just topped me off so I wouldn’t eat at night.

So far it’s been good. Let’s see how the next few weeks go.

Through the almighty power of amphetamines I no longer require quaint human things like food. Also does anyone know why I feel dizy and shakey?

Joking aside, before I was medicated the only things I found that worked to prevent snacking were strict keto or strict intermittent fasting. The keto worked much better but it’s miserable and hard to keep up for the first few weeks before your body kicks into ketosis. Once I was in ketosis though it was a breeze.

Outside of those something that helped was just keeping healthy snacks around. I’d still snack all the time but I would just wind up eating a ton of of grapes or dried fruit instead of a whole bag of chips. I still have several bags of dried fruits in my cubbord and a bag in my van.

i have only just now considered that my adhd could be contributing to my binge/restrict eating disorder…wow

that aside, it has been a long time since ive had an binge episode and my greatest tips are:

HYDRATION!!! – NOT JUST DRINKING WATER, EAT IT TOO! i find it hard to chug a lot of watwr in a day, so i make sure to eat veggies and fruits and other drinks that have a lot of water in them, wet food satiates in ways dry foods cant

change the order in which you eat certain foods…if you can, during meals, eat greens and veggies first then short chain sugary stuff like fruit, and carbs, then long chain protein…you might find it slows down your eating and fills you up quicker, as well as its main bonus: improving digestion and regulating fat storage

during movies or sitting to wait, busy your hands with something like folding laundry, knitting, a fidget tool, SUDOKU, clip your nails, etc. get creative, planning ahead of time what you might fill your attention with besides a snack

but to be real, the best thing that has helped me from overeating is not to shame myself when it happens, to be kind with my habits and behaviors, not become dogmatic about rules or shoulds/shouldnts and let myself go toward what im allured to more often than not

sometimes our inattentiveness is due to shame and not actual boredom, we are ashamed to be still, to relax, and be content, so sit with your feelings and see if that is true at all for you, then you might be able to implement some things that would communicate to yourself that relaxing is okay in this situation, like soaking your feet while you watch tv, get a handheld massager to use on your legs and arms and body or one of those ones you can set on your seat and back to massage you while you watch, or any other relaxing thing you can think of…

hope this helps someone ♡

Get some multigrain snack (like a bun not chips) or an apple. You eat less after.

A low-sugar (Monster, Nightwatch) energy drink can be a temorary substitute. Zero-sugar just get me more munchies(?) long-term.

What i noticed:

• less pasta/potato in my diet: less appetite for snacks
• two meals over the day is better than 3, as long as they are not too far apart, or else you can’t trick your wish for a snack with “i’ll cook in a hour anyway”.

Install some phone games that you can play without sound or text. Antiyoy is a good pick. When you’re bored and watching tv, do a sudoku puzzle. Put it down for action, pick it back up for boring dialogue.

I don’t know if it would work for anyone else, but chewing gum keeps me occupied when inattentive and watching something, or any activity where I’d be snacking without noticing.

Other comments mention many other options. But sometimes, none of the tricks work, and that’s usually due to a stressed+bored combo.

Same. I have to put snack foods in a bowl, I can’t eat them out of the bag or I’ll eat them all.

I’ve noticed sometimes I run to snacks when I haven’t actually drank anything all day.

I notice that if I eat a couple of pieces of fruit, I’m less likely to go overboard with other snacks, or even feel like snacking a lot. I have no idea what that’s about. Do I then snack on fruit at least once a day? That sounds like the smart option, but no. I try. But I’ve also gotta be in the right mood for a food, and I get a bit sensory about fruit sometimes. It also has to be zero effort, sometimes I don’t even have the energy to get into the fruit. Sometimes food has to be hand to mouth, no other effort or I won’t eat, but I will walk to the fridge and open it a thousand times, hoping it’s refreshed and stocked differently since last time. Which is more effort than just bloody cutting up or cooking the food! I think that’s when I’ve left it too long to eat and gone into deficit of energy.

I started making a banana bread with blueberries on top and adding a couple of different fibre and protein powders. And then I cut it into little squares and I can eat it cold from the fridge or warm it up, it’s zero effort all week, after making it… Which I rarely do because effort.

I’ll get there. Gotta keep plugging at it.

Don’t shop hungry and make sure you only have healthy food in the house. Celery and hummus work for me.

Have you tried being more stimulated?

Try building something. I’m putting together a bike right now, in between office work and dad duties. My fitbit is screaming about my cardio load and I forget to eat.

A couple of people mentioned sparkling water, and I want to join the train.

I got an off-brand sodastream. That and some Aarke flavor drops (https://aarke.us/collections/flavor-drops), and I have an infinite supply of la croix-esq bubble water.

I keep 2 bottles of (fridge-filtered) tap water in the fridge at all times and when I get the “I’m bored and don’t know what else I want” pangs, I go there first.

I also generally try drinking more water, especially at the start of a meal, to push back against the tendency to over eat.

Finally there’s the “just buy healthier snacks” but I struggle with that one the most

I drink alcohol instead.

I am not a good role model.