Attitude is everything

I don't need to tell you that attitude is everything.  If you're happy or cheerful, you have a tendency to eat til you're full, and feel quite comfortable in feeling a few hunger pangs - assuaged perhaps by a couple of carrots - before you go to bed.

If you're sad or depressed, you think, why bother, and you chow down on that comfort food.

It's important, therefore, that you realize why you should lose weight. It shouldn't be because you want to look attractive to someone else. You lose a boyfriend or can't find a boyfriend and you start eating to feel better since "no one cares." But if you're doing it for your own health and well-being, then just because you don't have a boyfriend doesn't matter. You're doing it for yourself.

Of course there's plenty of other reasons to be depressed - your work is getting on your nerves, you've lost your job, etc... and at those times you need to cheer yourself up somehow.

I always find that going for a bike ride and expending energy cheers me up. You could also put a punching bag in your basement and pound all your frustration out on that (MUCH better than taking it out on an innocent person) and so on.

What you want to get away from is using food for comfort. Or if you do use it for comfort, just a little bit at a time! No pigging out on two candy bars - stick with one a day, at the most!