My roadblock to weight loss is always my (21F) emotional eating- any advice from those who conquered theirs?

Hi loseit community! I’ve struggled for years, like since middle school years, to eat and exercise in a healthier fashion ultimately to become less overweight. During the last couple years in college, I’ve made a ton of great muscle gains by lifting weights, following a cardio regimen, even gaining the endurance to run a full 20 minutes without stopping. I feel like i’m beginning to get a hang of the routine exercise-part of a healthy lifestyle.

However, whenever I really try to commit to losing weight I feel I can’t move forward where my diet is concerned. It’s been an issue since my fad-dieting in high school, but I have long had issues with compulsive eating and binging at times. My coping skills have gotten better since I was at my worst, binging on a thousand calories a night, 4 years ago- probably just bc of the emotional maturing that comes with living alone/college and I saw a short-term counselor for a semester that gave me some coping techniques. Yet, while it’s better than it was, I’m still struggling to push myself to eat <1500 cal/day or so to lose weight. Whenever I get the urge, I just snack on whatever junk food is nearby. If my family takes me out to dinner, I give in and eat dessert...and then continue cheating into the next day. If I have the thought of “oh there’s leftover pizza in the fridge...” I don’t stop thinking about said pizza until i’m devouring it. I find myself obsessing sometimes about finding/researching the “perfect diet.” I know there isn’t one- but I think occupying my mind with thinking i’ve found one will help motivate me to actually stick to something. I’ve gone weeks with healthy eating, only giving in here and there, but always end up succumbing and going back to my compulsive eating behaviors to end back at sq 1. I’m not sure how to end the cycle!!!!

If there’s anyone out there who feels like they’ve found some success in coping with/beating their emotional eating- please share!

Tl;dr Working on weightloss but can’t get past my emotional/compulsive eating ruining diet- advice??

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