Got the exercise part. Can't get the eat less part.

[Offthegrid]

With all the excercise I get, if I could stop stuffing my face I'd be skinny in no time. I'm an all or nothing kind of person, so I can go weeks eating clean, but then once I stray that's it.

This is so me!!!!!!! I'm exercising 5-6 days a week (twice a day on swimming days) but I just love to eat and preparing food in advance is tough. Then I'm driving home from work or the gym or whatever, and I'm just SO hungry. Stomach is in full protest. It literally hurts. And I either stop and get junk or make waaay too much food because I feel so hungry, and end up eating it all.

I think, too, my mentality is that I exercised, so I deserve all the food. In fact, nutrition professor Brian Wansink is studying this mentality now. He has people go through an unlimited buffet, and those that exercised eat more and way overcompensate. (I read about it in the NY Times, but now it's marked as a Select article, so linking is kinda pointless.)

[Squeaky]

I think, too, my mentality is that I exercised, so I deserve all the food.

yep yep yep! That too. It seems like you should just be able to say to yourself not to do it and have some will power. I'd really love to learn how to stop doing this. I mean, I know I'm going to get to eat again and it's not like my previous meals were that unfulfilling. Granted, there is a difference between eating a Healthy Choice frozen meal and Chiptoles (um, how can you not pig out on that), and I know I can have Chiptoles another day, yet I must eat the whole thing right then.