Overeating

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Food is likely my main weakness. I'm deathly afraid of becoming diabetic. I need to exercise too.

The best way to control overeating is to be aware of portions. It's easy to chow down on a whole bag of a favorite food without realizing it. If I'm eating popcorn or a package of something that contains multiple servings, I usually measure out one serving and put the rest away so that I won't eat too much without realizing it.

My problem is I'm too picky. I overeat the foods I like and undereat everything else. I'm a pasta lover. I eat way too many carbohydrates, mostly because I like them a lot and don't like much else. I don't enjoy lean meat or veggies much. If they're not heavily seasoned and/or marinated they will taste like bland muck to me. Fish is good and healthy, but it's also expensive and hard to prepare. Making healthy food taste good is kind of a pain when you don't feel like dedicating the time.

This is my daughter's special interest, not mine. We are trying to find a way to alter the interest, rather than combat it. It is quite difficult, actually, when everything she thinks about revolves around food. Sometimes it makes me sad thinking about it, as I know her weight is another issue she would prefer to do without. Kids are mean. Adults are too. She just can't stop. SHe is forever thinking about when or what the next meal will be. When she can have what treat. how often she can squeeze in a snack. Boredom=hungry. Outside=hungry. Inside=hungry. With family=hungry...you get my drift.

Sometimes I feel like she fears our response when she "plans" her meals aloud and asks stuff like "can I have 2 chocolate mint girl guide cookies on Thursday?" She even whispers softly and tries to hide it from daddy, in fear that he will be angry (no matter how much we support her and make every attempt to understand her interests). *sigh*

At the moment we are learning all about the Canada Food Guide in my house and all the ways to make healthy eating habits...what else can a mother really do? *sigh*

for me i would not classify it as a special interest but i am addicted to sweet foods, like chocolate cake. peoples keep telling me to stop eating them (parents mostly) but i just couldn't i knows i should.

Ok yes im fat and its more that I cant control myself and that I never really feel full and I eat to much and have stomach pains and then I have diarrhea which ive researched shows up alot more often in people with autism.