Since starting the diet I parsed out the food to ensure that I have something for dinner. I am afraid that I am going to eat everything during the day and have nothing to eat at night, so I have been ending up with three products to eat at night. I actually enjoy have the food at night because I am a night eater.
I think it started when I worked graveyard. My shift would start at 10 pm and I would eat at 9 pm. I would usually have a snack around 3 am when it was quiet and no customers around and grab something on the way out in the morning when I left. I wouldn't eat again until 9 pm the next day, unless it was my day off and then my friends and I would usually go out for dinner about - 9 pm (unless it was with K then it would be more like 2 in the morning).
I haven't lost the desire to eat at night. When trying to diet I can easily stay on the diet during the day, but night time it is a free for all. No matter how often I will tell TH that I want to eat at 5 or 6, I still end up eating (snacking/eating) well into the late night. Even to getting up and getting something to eat at 11 pm if I am still awake.
I know I am suppose to eat early and go to bed on an empty stomach, but here is another habit that I find hard to break. And on top of that if I want to eat with TH I would have to wait until 8 or 9 and then if I eat a meal at that time I just get sick at night. My digestion is not what it used to be and it is hard to go to bed just after eating a full Indian meal.
My three products left at night are eaten at 5 - 7 - 9. That makes me so happy. But I know that I can't do that in the future. Those 5 - 7 - 9 meals total 480 calories. Not the 1500 + calories I would normally eat. So I have been thinking about eating nights which I am not going to give up, and I have come up with a compromise with TH - it will be about 500 calories for dinner and it will be between 6:30-7:00 and nothing after that. That is going to be the test. If I can only eat 500 calories in the evening, I can keep to my 1200 calorie day. And if I keep to my 1200 calorie day I can continue to lose weight.
Here is to early dinners.
I think it started when I worked graveyard. My shift would start at 10 pm and I would eat at 9 pm. I would usually have a snack around 3 am when it was quiet and no customers around and grab something on the way out in the morning when I left. I wouldn't eat again until 9 pm the next day, unless it was my day off and then my friends and I would usually go out for dinner about - 9 pm (unless it was with K then it would be more like 2 in the morning).
I haven't lost the desire to eat at night. When trying to diet I can easily stay on the diet during the day, but night time it is a free for all. No matter how often I will tell TH that I want to eat at 5 or 6, I still end up eating (snacking/eating) well into the late night. Even to getting up and getting something to eat at 11 pm if I am still awake.
I know I am suppose to eat early and go to bed on an empty stomach, but here is another habit that I find hard to break. And on top of that if I want to eat with TH I would have to wait until 8 or 9 and then if I eat a meal at that time I just get sick at night. My digestion is not what it used to be and it is hard to go to bed just after eating a full Indian meal.
My three products left at night are eaten at 5 - 7 - 9. That makes me so happy. But I know that I can't do that in the future. Those 5 - 7 - 9 meals total 480 calories. Not the 1500 + calories I would normally eat. So I have been thinking about eating nights which I am not going to give up, and I have come up with a compromise with TH - it will be about 500 calories for dinner and it will be between 6:30-7:00 and nothing after that. That is going to be the test. If I can only eat 500 calories in the evening, I can keep to my 1200 calorie day. And if I keep to my 1200 calorie day I can continue to lose weight.
Here is to early dinners.
We still haven't compromised on 6:30 or 7:00pm - I suspect 6:45 will be where we end up. Be big change for me too since I get to work at 10am & usually leave about 7-7:30. Tuesday is teaching day, so can't get home before 7:45 - somehow we'll work it out.
ReplyDeleteYou know I am still a nite time eater. I don't like eating early. With Donna working graveyard, I am eating like I am still working graveyard at Hoagys. At least I am not eating cream cheese bagels with roast beef and BBQ sauce! Keep up the good work. I am behind you all the way!���� K
ReplyDeleteBoy, Ms. "Unknown" aka "K" - a hard roll with roast beef, cream cheese, horse radish & BBQ sauce sounds pretty darn good - probably a lot better than BBQ chips, ice cream & animal cracker cookies (the pink & white ones). I guess "green M&M's" don't count as a vegetable. Graveyard at Hoagys was a long time ago for both of you.
ReplyDeleteI like how you set boundaries on eating time, and parsed out your food at night. I think that helps a lot because then we are purposeful and aware. My prime time eating times are between 2-6, so afternoons are the worst for me, and I tried doing the same thing you did...deciding what I will eat when. I think it works!
ReplyDeleteWith Jack's schedule we never get to eat before 8. It's bad, I admire that you are changing your eating lifestyle.
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