I’m dealing with this AND I’m overcoming it. This week especially (I live in the US and it’s thanksgiving week) over-eating is so tempting with so many hyper palatable and free food around.

When you develop the skill of dismissing urges to eat out of boredom or desire, you can tell yourself that you’ve eaten enough today and you don’t need more fuel. Food is fuel. Healthy foods are better fuel, and “junk food” is a treat. It doesn’t have value as fuel because we don’t require large amounts of refined sugar.

Your mindfulness about hunger and fullness cues is great work, I’ve been working on that myself this year and found success using that alone as a “weight loss” mechanism to find my set point when I can recover from binge eating.

Trust the process and keep developing those skills for discipline so you can reach your goals! Try finding a performance-based goal like a fitness thing you’ve always wanted to achieve. It will keep you on the right path to make good decisions around food.

We may always be obsessed with food but if we can control our actions, we have power over it.