makes it much easier to not eat anything sweetened in the first
place...

i

I try to eat four meals a day but in all honesty, my biggest meal of the day
ends up being at night. As much as I try, things get so busy here at work
that sometimes I just can't eat. I eat a roughly 300 calorie breakfast
consisting of tuna and a piece of fruit. The thing that screws me up is the
cereal cravings, once I start I polish off a whole box in one sitting. Then
the guilt hits, then I go running to work it off. I guess I will have to
follow the advice of a previous poster and just ban the stuff from my house.
(My roommates will not be happy)

Great job logging to fitday... I looked at Jul 12 and 13. Scary stuff.

I also love turkey breast, by the way.

It stands very obvious to me that your low fat approach is not working
at all, for you, in that it does not control your appetite.

I think that you basically have a health emergency and, first, need to
try to find some pro who knows about these issues specifically.
Personally, I would find someone who does not have psychology as the
primary qualification.

Secondly, it would be worthwhile to ditch your cereal completely and
dramatically increase the amount of fat you eat. Try starting the next
morning with a small fruit, like an apricot, and 2-3 ounces of olive
oil. Not the tastiest breakfast, but, you may well find that you are
not ravenous after a few hours.  Snack on a few tomatoes between
breakfast and lunch. For lunch, eat some turkey breast with a small
fruit again, make a cabbage salad with olive oil, and eat maybe some
good quantity of unbreaded fish for dinner. Don't obsess with
calories, it would beat your 7,000 calorie days that you have with
cereal. You'd probably end up at 2,000-2,700 calories.

Give this a try, for a few days, you have nothing to lose. Aim for
about 100 grams of carbs. See where it leads you.

I know that I cannot maintain my weight or eat sanely with sugary
foods, sweets, cereals etc. Myself, I eat about 150-170 grams of carbs
per day, and feel some hunger and food thoughts, but, it is not
terrible.

And, again, you probably need to find some doc or whoever, who is
actually qualified. I could be very difficult to find one like that,
but, you need to spend some time on it. I would prefer a doctor and I
would spend a long time asking people for referrals etc.

Try visiting two more newsgroups, alt.support.diet.low-carb and
misc.fitness.weights, they have some people with relevant
experience. You can always post under fake names if you want to.
Take the good stuff and ignore the flames. Good luck.

i

28 servings of cereal?  11 servings of fruit bars??  You need to ditch the
carbs and eat more fat.  You may even benefit from a atkins-type induction
of eliminating carbs for a few days, to get off the carb addiction.  Try
eating 100g of carbs or less per day for about a week.  Then gradually add
back in low glycemic carbs (veggies, high fiber breads and cereals, whole
wheat products) to a point that is well balanced - probably not more than
40% from carbs.

And it looks to me like you're binging, I'm no expert there, but you need to
address that issue.

det