I like making smoothies for breakfast, or sometimes just oatmeal with lots of cinnamon. Started out with just fruit smoothies but now they are mostly vegetables, with flavored soy protein powder. It's got to taste good or you probably won't continue, so get a good smoothie app or look at youtube videos. You can probably keep most of the ingredients in your room. They say a good breakfast will help the whole day, I find it definitely helps. If I get too hungry then I eat bad, and too much. So I also use healthy snacks throughout the day, like cliff bars or rice cakes (there are some really good ones out there). I also am vegan, I got started by just trying it for three days. I never thought I would make it, I didn't think I would get enough to eat. But it turned out to be a lot of fun and I never went back. I think what I have learned from switching that would help you is to start looking for tasty yet healthier alternatives, get out of the rut of ordering the same thing at the same places and try something different. You might be surprised at how much better you can eat and still be happy. Try different restaurants as well: subway is an excellent choice (go light on cheese, meat and sauce, just enough so it still tastes good, mustard gets you a lot of flavor and oil vinegar is good as well), baja fresh (skip the chips), chipotle (black beans instead of pinto, sofritas instead of meat), etc. I guess my point is you can still eat very tasty food that is much healthier, you just have to look for it.
Recently the biggest change I have made is portion control. I am literally eating half what I was eating before, and much to my surprise I'm not dying. Granted, I supplement with vitamins and soy protein, but it's still shocking how much I ate was just overeating and mental addiction to eating. I've realized I'm at an age where I need to eat much less, and it makes me very sad, I loved getting stuffed. But that's another idea: I find vitamins help keep the appetite down a tad.
Exercise: I think what really helped me the most was an indecent about a year ago. I love the couch as well but would remember fondly the days when I was young and running felt great, but the few times I would try it again I would feel like crap and never get very far. But one day I had to run to get the car so I could get my wife somewhere on time, I literally ran 1/2 a mile really fast in my jeans. I felt like crap as usual most of the way and had to push myself really hard, but towards the end I suddenly felt great. A light went off in my head, the problem was I always stopped to soon. I started running again, and I told myself "you are going to feel like crap for a while, but then it will get better." Sure enough, I push through the crap and usually each run ends with me feeling great, and overall the runs feel better with time. If you try it progress slowly with two or three days in between and don't push too hard, you don't want to get injured. If running is not your thing try swimming, or the gym, even walking is excellent. Just remember that it will feel good, you just have to get there.
I mention exercise because it really seems to help me with this addiction, and it tends to motivate me to eat better. And I'd say at this point it's becoming a replacement hobby for this addiction. That's kind of my logic, if I'm going to eat out and eat tasty food, at least it can be healthy, if I'm going to be addicted, at least it can be to something healthy like exercise.
My wife uses myfitnesspal.com to track calories and steps, I'm not into it but it really helps her and you might find it motivating.
Hope this helps.
Recently the biggest change I have made is portion control. I am literally eating half what I was eating before, and much to my surprise I'm not dying. Granted, I supplement with vitamins and soy protein, but it's still shocking how much I ate was just overeating and mental addiction to eating. I've realized I'm at an age where I need to eat much less, and it makes me very sad, I loved getting stuffed. But that's another idea: I find vitamins help keep the appetite down a tad.
Exercise: I think what really helped me the most was an indecent about a year ago. I love the couch as well but would remember fondly the days when I was young and running felt great, but the few times I would try it again I would feel like crap and never get very far. But one day I had to run to get the car so I could get my wife somewhere on time, I literally ran 1/2 a mile really fast in my jeans. I felt like crap as usual most of the way and had to push myself really hard, but towards the end I suddenly felt great. A light went off in my head, the problem was I always stopped to soon. I started running again, and I told myself "you are going to feel like crap for a while, but then it will get better." Sure enough, I push through the crap and usually each run ends with me feeling great, and overall the runs feel better with time. If you try it progress slowly with two or three days in between and don't push too hard, you don't want to get injured. If running is not your thing try swimming, or the gym, even walking is excellent. Just remember that it will feel good, you just have to get there.
I mention exercise because it really seems to help me with this addiction, and it tends to motivate me to eat better. And I'd say at this point it's becoming a replacement hobby for this addiction. That's kind of my logic, if I'm going to eat out and eat tasty food, at least it can be healthy, if I'm going to be addicted, at least it can be to something healthy like exercise.
My wife uses myfitnesspal.com to track calories and steps, I'm not into it but it really helps her and you might find it motivating.
Hope this helps.