Reply With QuoteI tend to do the same, but my time is 5 in the afternoon. What I did was start putting all the 'bad' stuff behind the 'good' stuff, so when I open the cupboard or fridge, I see the good stuff first because usually I tend to grab the first thing.
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Compulsive eating
I must stop.
How do you curb your overeating tendencies?
I've started exercising and am determined to keep going, and gradually increase it, kids allowing, but I really have to stop eating everything in sight in the evenings. I'm ok for the rest of the day, but once the kids are in bed and I have my unwind time... I must eat..... everything
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I tend to do the same, but my time is 5 in the afternoon. What I did was start putting all the 'bad' stuff behind the 'good' stuff, so when I open the cupboard or fridge, I see the good stuff first because usually I tend to grab the first thing.
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If you buy lots of calorie negative foods you can go nuts eating them without gaining much weight (if any).
Try to eat more during the day (I'm such a hypocrite lol).
Try a multi-vitamin if you're not taking one. Food cravings can be related to vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
Make sure you're hydrated. It can be easy to mistake thirst for hunger - a few cups of herbal tea will help you hydrate and provide a low cal flavour hit.
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I know how you feel, I'm the same of an evening too!!
My weakness lately is those little bags of mini caramel creme cadbury eggs.... they're deadly!!
I will be losing weight once this baby is out!!
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Are you using food as a reward? It sounds like a ritual...could you start a new ritual of the evening...like a nice herbal tea and a piece of fruit? If you're breastfeeding a lot in the evening it does make sense you're craving high calorie foods though...do you eat protein with dinner?
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Thanks!
I think maybe it's a ritual thing, yeah. But I'm also really, really tired, so that could be part of it. Maybe I'll look into a vitamin to see if it helps.
I do drink, drink, drink aaaaall day.(and wee wee wee too)
Ok, herbal tea. I think we might have some of that. I'll give it a go.
Lol Shanti - that's what I told myself too ;p
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Great thread!
I would eat myself out of house and home if ever given the opportunity. I have sort of got myself into the habit of drinking a large glass of water just incase its me being thirsty rather than hungry. But i think i will opt for herbal tea as well and maybe doing the trick of hiding the naughty foods.
can someone give me an idea of which foods have negative calories?
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If you google it you can find lists but the basic theory is that some foods have less calories than your body uses to digest and excrete them.
Celery, cucumber, apples, grapefruit, lettuce, watermelon.......
I'm not 100% sure if they really do use more calories than they provide but they certainly won't make you gain much weight.
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Thanks heaps. i eat a lot of those already but will try eat alot more instead of opting for the bad foods.
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Aren't you still BF? I'd say it's normal then! And by the look of you just after the birth of your DD at the last meet up, I don't think you have anything to worry about
Ive done a lot of dieting over the years though and my thing is to 1. not have too much junk in the house or if the junk is required, it's packaged up and saved for guests, BBQs, etc (eg chips, dip, etc) and 2. allow myself a treat once a day but only one. I also have healthier things to snack on like rice crackers, Chinese rice crackers, healthy dips and veggie sticks, etc. That helps.
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I found I was eating 1 or 2 sandwiches of an evening because I was hungry to the point of tummy grumbling hungry but that was just too many carbs so switched it to having a hot milo or some carrot/capsicum sticks with hommus and a herbal tea.
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Carrot and brocoli are 2 big negative foods... blueberries (in fact most berries) and watermelon are too.
Eat more during the day. If you are starving and snacking heaps at nighty your body needs more food during the day. This is my downfall, eat barely anything during the day and i get soooo hungry at night! Lunch should be the biggest meal of the day so try having a big lunch with some carbs, protein and lots of veggies, then have some fruit too... See if that makes a difference?
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I eat at night because I am bored, took me ages to realize this, but my days are so full that in the evening when I get to sit a relax I couldn't switch off properly, I was bored withTV and DH woukd be too tired to interact with me, so I would 'entertain' myself with food iykwim.
It's hard to break the cycle, but I started to DO things in the evening, like tried to sew, read a book, something for me (not fold washing) that would keep me occupied do I didn't feel the need to eat.
Didn't always work, but it helped
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One of the pre-season tasks we had to do on the 12wbt is to take our bin into the middle of the kitchen floor and throw out ALL no-no food, the snacks that are bad for us etc.
You don't have to have 3 main meals a day, you can graze or have 6 smaller meals. Sometimes I don't feel like 3 main meals, so I spread things out throughout the day, yesterday was a good example, breakfast was supposed to be muesli, yoghurt & fruit. I had the fruit, then an hour later the muesli, an hour after that the yoghurt, all my meals ended up being split up and spread throughout the day. Dinner was cooked about 4pm and I don't eat anything after about 7:30pm, if I feel peckish later on in the night, I have a low cal hot chocolate or maybe a piece of fruit.
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What time are your kids in bed? Is it possible to have something like a Horlicks (hot milk and malt if no horlicks in the house) and then go to bed and read to unwind?
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My problem isn't one particular time of the day, it's alllll the time! I think i'm obsessed with food, seriously! All I do is think about what i'm going to eat! I'm bf, and everyone told me i'd lose weight, uh no. I lost 13kg while pregnant and have put 10 back on. I exercise to lose weight and it makes me hungrier. Can't win! I had gdm and was insulin dependent , my gp just tested me and said i'm type 2 diabetic, now I have to find all good food to be obsessed with , i have 4 children, am tired all the time and don't know what to do! Not fun at all
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