You have a couple of options if the carby/cookie/candy monster is still lurking around your life
You can keep feeding it on “cheat days” and any other excuse that comes up
You can starve it out and kill it, before it kills you
If you need to kill it to be free of it, then you have to, have to, have to starve it to death.
Need to change up what you’re doing. Stop buying cookies/candy/sweets to keep in the house. Easiest way to not eat something is to not be near it.
Consider a 24 or 48 hour fast to break things up. Try OMAD or 20-4. Start working out. Take a week off from fasting to reset your mind and body.
Embrace some change. Get out of your comfort zone. Good luck.
It’s never easy! Congratulations on your progress. Keep up the hard work!
body dysmorphia is real, the mirror can’t always be trusted.
sweets are my downfall too. Stay away from things you can cut bigger slices of (cakes,pies,fudge). For me, it’s better to have some than none, that keeps me from going crazy and over indulging. I get a bag of the pre-packaged wrapped single squares of Ghiradelli chocolate. The Lindt truffle balls work too. Limit yourself to one or two and it helps me a lot.
Good luck!
I don’t know your life or situation, but my advice, ditch the negativity. It was never enough to sustainably drive change for me. Even when I had success for a few months, I inevitably always hit a point where I loved the food more than I hated myself. I made even better progress after getting away from that.
Obliviously it’s not a switch you can just flip, getting into the right mental space is hard. I think you need to retake control off the whole process, but break that up into manageable amounts that you can build on. Maybe start by just making a small goal for yourself, something challenging but achievable. No sweet for one day or something. After that get after another one, then another until you’ve got yourself built back up.
It sounds like you’ve made progress, so you know the how, just need to get back on track.
Good luck on your journey!