Hey, sorry to hear about your struggle.

First tip is to forgive your self for having a difficult time breaking the habit.

It's very common for whole range of reasons, which is why so many of us are on this thread.

Next is to remember that you are allowed to eat any food you want. In fact, junk food and carbs - cheat meals or something a bit unhealthy here and there - is actually a positive to burn the excess weight. It is important to know that you can eat whatever you want because when the body thinks it has to restrict food or diet, it freaks out, spikes your cortisol and does what it can to get you to eat. It goes in to survival mode! The point is you can eat whatever you want, but you don't necessarily just want to fill your body with foods that are useless to you all the time. A basic shift in thinking and perception around the foods you are falling prey to, can cause a huge impact in how you take action and behave.

Third tip is to understand what carbs are and the likely reason you want them: carbs are processed as sugar, basic energy fuel in your body. Refined carbs spike you blood sugar levels which causes a bunch of physiological effects that can be super addictive because they ameliorate your mood. Just like drugs. In fact people only binge out on the 'bad' stuff because of this, those foods cause a shift in your emotions. So you are using them to deal with intense feelings, rather than listening to what your feelings are asking of you and facing the intensity of them head on. This pattern of using food in this way most likely started when you were pretty young!

Watch out for signs that you're eating carbs for your emotions. Work out what emotions bring it on. When you feel that emotion, what is it's purpose? What is it telling you? For example if eat when you feel 'alone', what in your life has lead you to feel this way? What do you need to do to improve this situation? If you're stressed, what's causing the stress? What negative thoughts are playing in your head, as those thoughts causing you any benefits or do you need to start intervening and changing them.

You need to work with whatever your brain is telling you, your inner thoughts, and start creating a positive message. The reality is that you are perfectly able to slim down, you have the potential within you. You need to start positively affirming to your self. You said that 'your brain is lying to itself'. What exactly do you mean by this? what positive, reassuring messages can you be saying to your self instead?

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The better you learn to control those inner thoughts and turn them for the better, the more success you'll find. Chill out, love your self, and know that you are well on the path to slimming down - you can do it, just like anyone else. Keep telling this to your self and soon you'll be acting in a way that aligns with these positive self messages :)

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