The hardest time of the day?
#11
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 1
Definitely!! I do well all day long,,,,,,,,,,,,and then 800 hits and I want to sit and eat chips!! I dont even really like the taste so I have no idea what this is about??
I really wish I could get a handle on it cause I know its not doing me any good at all
I really wish I could get a handle on it cause I know its not doing me any good at all
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 7
My biggest problem is not necessarily a certain time of day, but the weekends is when I make the most eating mistakes. The problem with the weekends is that my g/f and I use going to restaurants a form of our entertainment instead of doing something else and eating good at home. When I go out to eat, I feel that I have to order the biggest item on the menu and also to eat the entire portion. Also if my g/f has any left of hers, I need to have a "taste" of hers. It is a struggle to eat correctly when going out, so I have tried not going until I can control myself. As a plus, it has saved us some money!
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Parlin, NJ
Posts: 17
I find my witching hour is between 10:30 am - 11:30 am and I find I want to put a quarter in the company candy machine to get 5 chocolate covered almonds. 85 cals only but they are addictive. Yesterday, I was good and I replaced this temptation with a 60 cal Lit & Fit blueberry yogurt which was satisfying and gave me an extra calcium boost. Also, I didn't work out last night so I as up later than 7pm. I was very tempted to eat some of my daughter's cookies and I even eyed her BF's home made biscuits. But I stopped myself and put my scale in the path of the kitchen. I knew today was our weekly weigh in so I just went to bed. YIPPIE!
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 171
I just wanted to say, that after a month of eating healthy, the late night cravings are so much less!!! I have made a habit out of leaving myself a couple hundred calories for late night snacking and now I don't use them half the time!! Which isn't good in itself as some days I am only consuming 1000 calories, and not even feeling deprived at that!! I am going to allow myself 1400 calories on a bad day, making 1200 my goal. If I do get the late night munchies, I can go up to 1400 but at least by supper time I will have eaten 1200.
It has gotten easier for me, rather than harder. Sugar cravings are gone. Junk food cravings are gone.
It has gotten easier for me, rather than harder. Sugar cravings are gone. Junk food cravings are gone.
#16
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 22
Wow...
Hey guys, looks like evening is a common denominator in cravings!! Me too. It's bad, the later I'm up the more I will try to eat! I scour the cupboards for "interesting" foods (where's those choc teddy grahams???)
Plus, my dinner tends to be beyond what's good.. I usually eat a ton and go back for more (habit)
I'm doing well most of the time lately...
Plus, my dinner tends to be beyond what's good.. I usually eat a ton and go back for more (habit)
I'm doing well most of the time lately...
#20
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 154
I also found that once I was 'off the sugar/salt/fat' for a week or so, the wild cravings for them did subside. What I am doing differently this time, as opposed to other times I have 'dieted', is that I am avoiding the processed, and so called low-cal foods that were full of artificial sweeteners. I swear they made me crave more more more!!! I still struggle in the evenings and weekends too, I think out of habit. Weekends to me are (were) somewhat of a 'free for all', and I need to get that belief out of my head. Trying to keep busy and away from the TV in the evenings. I play guitar which helps, trying to pick that up every evening now. And going to bed a little earlier helps me too. 10-11pm is the difficult time zone for me.