The problem with overeating is that it feels really good

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m the opposite. I enjoy shoveling food in my face hole, but do not enjoy the feeling afterwards.

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  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, and when I have the munchies but feel full already I’m a bit sad :(

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• CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it’s harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you’ve got a problem with.

  Imagine if to “stop smoking”, you had to smoke 3x a day?

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  • fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I desperately wish I could go cold turkey on eating. It is such a difficult thing to regulate for me, I want to simply give it up like I did for nicotine.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mmm cold turkey.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve quit a nicotine addiction of 11 years cold turkey. That was the easiest because I self regulated most of the time and never reached pack a day. More like pack a week max. Urge to smoke faded within a week.

      I’ve quit a cannabis addiction of 8 years cold turkey. That was harder, because I vaped every hour I was conscious. So widthdrawal was pretty fucking awful, but I managed.

      Food is crazy hard for me. I was in a 7/11 after every work shift. I got into a really bad delivery food habit during covid lockdowns. I hadn’t cooked my own meals regularly for over 12 years. It was fucking up my health and self esteem severely. I wasn’t a ham planet only because I’m abnormally tall. Still, ideal for me is 220lbs and my worst was 290lbs.

      I did extended fasting. You can quit cold turkey, it’s the hardest thing I ever did. Had to give my roommate my pay cards to hide from myself when I was on work week or I’d keep breaking early. Deleted saved pay info from web browsers. First three days are the worst. I’d go 2-3 weeks in a row and then take a month break. Longer is too dangerous or I’m too risk adverse. Either way. Repeated until goal weight. Yadya Yadya drank mineral slurry to not die, not getting into it here.

      After that the addictive urges to buy a bunch of candy, carbs, and junk food slowly faded but I had to learn new habits. That’s also very hard for a depressive person. I’ve managed so far to buy raw unprocessed foods for lunch (I don’t do breakfast) and my roommate and I take turns cooking calorie wise HelloFresh dinner meals for now. Slowly getting better at cooking. Eventually I’ll wean off of this service. I’m just trying not to relapse for now.

      My mindset until I’m feeling confident is anything highly processed is an evil virus of capitalist satan and I have to avoid it lol. It’s easier since it’s in combination with boycotting American owned/imported everything that I can.

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• Ging@anarchist.nexus ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Are you familiar with ' jouissance’?

  The drive continues past satisfaction into compulsion.

  Pleasure is mixed with pain, shame, or guilt during/after the act.

  It’s symbolic. Eating can act like a shortcut for dealing with other feelings or wants — it fills a need that words or thinking don’t fix.

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• gilokee@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I despise being over full! Glad I’m not the only one in these comments. It just makes me feel sick.

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  • dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah it feels good for about 5 minutes then its terrible for several hours

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• falseWhite@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hate the feeling. But I do overeat sometimes, because I love eating tasty foods and can’t stop even when I’m full.

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Feeling boated and about to puke and also incredibly sleepy is good?

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For some people, yes.

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• Logh@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah, the ‘itis!

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• __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be honest, this just sounds like sugar shock. If your blood sugar rises too fast for insulin to be able to counteract it, then you start getting symptoms like drowsiness, fatigue, and “high-ness.” This can feel good, but it is basically doing damage to your brain, so I am not sure that this would be good long term. Then again, I suppose the same can be said for (hard) drugs.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a survival mechanism.

  We human animals were designed to live in the wilderness with no available food. We had to constantly be on the search for food or preparing it in order to survive. And when we found food, we gorged on it because we knew that there might not be another supply of food later.

  Humans lived like that for thousands of years.

  It’s only been very recently that the majority of us had a steady supply of food. There are starving populations but not as much as there was in the past.

  We are designed and conditioned to be starving because we are not supposed to have freely available food all the time.

  Maybe in a few thousand years we will adapt to having food around all the time.

  But right now and for the foreseeable future, we’re going to have problems with our diet and health all the time unless we really apply our knowledge and self control to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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  • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes there’s also a mechanism in our brains that if a food is high enough in nutrients like calories, fat, etc. we don’t feel full and just keep eating. In the past such sources were few and far between, so when one came upon them, we needed to eat as much as physically possible. The issue is, these days we have a lot of food like that. Our brains can’t handle it, so we overeat very easily.

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• jonesey71@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Relevant comedy bit: www.tiktok.com/…/7196224312251092230?lang=en

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