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Oh hey, I used to do the same and also had to stop when parenting eliminated free time. I also have a tendency to eat as much as possible as quickly as possible.
The solution for me was, believe it or not, to eat less. I still want to eat like I used to, but I don't. I just make a mental effort to assess how much food I need and then I eat that much and no more. If I accidentally overeat, I skip the next meal. It's unpleasant, but better than growing fat.
I'm not saying this to dunk on you, "git gud scrub". My message is more like...life sucks, don't wait for a perfect solution, just take the hit and live with the pain and do what you know you have to.
Yeah that's what I'm trying to do at the moment. I've never been a very conscientious person though, and this is a major weakness. It just takes up so much daily bandwidth. Some asshole has just brought in a packet of gummibears to work, and plonked them on a shelf right next to my desk. I feel like semaglutide might help me to ignore them.
Go cold turkey. Just stop it with the sugary crap, entirely, no exceptions. Think of it as "not something that I eat". Sugar gives you cravings for more sugar. Cut the loop by not consuming sweets at all, categorically. You don't need sweets to live.
My office break room is stacked to the roof with cookies, chocolate, candy, gummi whatevers. I walk in there, see a pile of shit-that-messes-you-up, and walk past it to get at the can of unsalted peanuts, cashews and almonds I keep in there. You can snack without screwing with your appetite. See sweets as the horrible drugs, the makers-of-the-obese that they are.
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