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i feel like a huge fat glutton. is this horrible?

okayyy. i eat like this all the time.. i eat healthy foods, but then i eat a lot of sweets too..i always crave them. i'm afraid that i'm eating wayyy too much over my calorie range. i'm 5'2 1/2'' and weigh 105. i do not want to lose weight, but i don't want to gain it either...this is what i ate today..how many calories is this & is this in my normal range? breakfast: 2 bowls of golden grahams cereal, & cup of oatmeal, slice of lite wheat bread with peanut butter & jelly.. lunch: didn't really eat lunch cause I was so full from my breakfast.. but when I got hungry I ate an apple & then some apple slices (prob like 10ish) with a little bit of caramel dip dinner: 2 very small pieces of chicken wings..(baked not fried)..some roasted potato wedges (prob around 12), cup of green beans with almonds, & a cup of chicken noodle soup with a handful of low fat cheese snacks/desserts: this is when I start to go crazy & get hungry. I ate 2 cheese cubes, a hershey kiss, a piece of banana dove chocolate, 2 cinnamon rolls (660 cals), 2 cups of coffee with sugar, & a little bit more of chocolate morsels i know you're prob gonna say..'' you can afford those calories & you can eat like that once in a while''..but i eat like this prob everyday. this is how many calories i intake daily..however many this is? i need a nutrition expert who can tell me how much that is & if thats normal for me. thank you

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1. I used to do the same thing. It gave me a headache to think about how many calories I was eating. But I was a thin girl so no one realized how I was binging. Which it sounds like you're doing. The issue here is habits. It's really what most eating comes down to. Do you eat when you're hungry, when mom's made you something, when you're bored... etc. Different people have different triggers to eating, mine happened to be everything. It helped me greatly to use something called HabitCal, which I found online. It helps you build better habits by creating a calendar that visually shows you how well you've been keeping them. Building habits takes about a month, so if you work on your habits now, you won't have to worry about this again. It's just a tough month. I am a fan of the "No S Diet" which is hardly a diet- just no snacks, no sweets, and no seconds. This means you just have three (or four) square meals a day without snacking in between and minimizing sugar. For you I would say just make your habit eating a set number of meals a day and get in the habit of not snacking in between. I'm guessing you didn't sit down and set up all those items for breakfast before you ate them- you probably had one, got up, had something else, etc. If you knew you were going to have lunch and dinner you would make sure you'd still be hungry for lunch too and choose a reasonable portion. And you wouldn't be eating the cheese cubes or desserts (unless you left a spot on your dinner plate for something a little sweet, like yogurt and fruit, or had tea like I do afterwards). That's the other thing- drink as much tea and water as you want! You may be dehydrated when you think you're hungry. Drink lots in between your meals. The other thing about the No S Diet is it gives you days where you don't have to follow it perfectly. You can have a dessert or a snack-- not a free for all, but a treat. Choose those days ahead of time too! Some people like to do that on the weekend, I choose birthdays and some Fridays. It all comes down to habits- your sweet cravings are reduced when you're body's not expecting them anymore, so do your urges to snack when you are used to it not being an option. Just tough it out for a couple of weeks and you'll be fine! Best of luck.