Putting weight back on after you managed to get it off is so depressing. I know the situation well, having done it all my life. I am making yet another effort since I am in danger of making myself permanently disabled if I don't get my weight down and keep it down. I am hoping that chatting to other people on this site will help me overcome my tendency to eat when bored, fed-up, etc. We all know the issues, and ignorance about food is not really our problem, so the best thing we can do is support each other and be around for a chat when things are hard.

Hey you...next time think of HALT..hungry angry tired lonely..if you're anyone of these don't eat..start a mental precedent and try to recognize when you do what was the motivating factor..it works for me most of the time..but then I do allow myself treats..awesome job I am on the weightloss express as well

I have never been obese but I've been overweight. I have found that fasting, especially intermittent fasting, to be the easiest way to lose or maintain my weight. Intermittent fasting is done by restricting eating to only a few hours per day. Usually I do it by waiting until noon before I have my first meal. After the first meal, I snack lightly until 6 or 8 p.m. Dealing with the feelings of hunger isn't very hard if I apply a few mental techniques. First, I acknowledge that the hunger is uncomfortable, but not too much so. It is more easily tolerable when I focus on it while letting all thoughts about it drift away. Essentially, this is a meditation on hunger. The "intolerable" part of hunger comes from thinking about it, having thoughts like, "this is too much," or "I can't stand it." So with meditation, feeling the hunger without eating is more easily possible. Also, with the meditation, I don't think of making any moves to get food. Before we eat something, we make a move toward the food which is preceded by a thought of doing so. If I have no thoughts of getting food, then I don't eat.

Odd, @jperlow is no longer active.

You need to get all the carbs and sugar out of the house and when you want to snack you have to go for proteins and fats. So cheeses, nuts, meats, protein snacks.

You may think I'm nuts. My wife started making peanut butter and broccoli sandwitches, and they are good. The peanut butter more or less smothers the broccoli flavor, and it is crunchy.

I like peanut butter and dried cranberries or dried blueberries better than the broccoli. They are sweeter, but good for you too, in moderation. However, I believe short breads have too much salt, and yeast breads are too rich. Whole grains, like brown rice release sugar into your body slower than bread and jelly.

Thus, next time you think of a PBJ, make a bowl of brown rice with a table spoon or two of peanut butter and a few dried cranberries or blueberries for sweetener. We cook a cup of rice and leave it in the frige, cooked. That way, putting together that bowl of rice is quick. But, we eat rice often.

Weight loss is simple but not easy. Change is the biggest challenge. A friend passed 2 months ago, months before he admitted it was easier to accept death over change.
I found over watching films like super size me, fat, sick & nearly dead and even my 600lb life kept me focused

That's cool. Writing on a post here helped you get through the urges

If I get the urge I just decide to drink a cup of water or diluted fruit juice (usually 20-30% fruit juice, the rest water), works most of the time.