Diets & Weight Maintenance Support Group
Chat about how well your latest diet is -- or is not -- working. This group is a great place to find support and accountability as well as share success stories and valuable lessons with the community. From where to start to weekly weigh-ins, get help from others to reach your dieting and weight maintenance goals.
my diet goes fantastic during the day. i can exercise stick to healthy foods and snacks and all is very good. then come after supper when i am relaxing and watching tv all hell breaks loose. thats when i crave the sweets and all the junk. and it is SO hard to resist. i dont know why i can go all day and easily resist the cravings and urges but cant seem to at night. any one have similiar experinces?
Personally I have no will power. I keep all the temptations out of the house. I make my daughter keep her junk food in her room. I haven't gone in there since she hit double digits and started doing her own laundry so staying out of her space is well established.
It is tough to control the snacking. Evenings are a hard time and also afternoons for me too, as I am retired and always around food.
I am working on portion control. There is no easy solution, it is the balance I am looking for.....
Also I have medium size zip lock bags of fruits and of veg.'s. Seedless white grapes mixed in green leaf salad : )
Enjoy.
If it's not in house! When others eat, go watch tv in another room while they eat.
Fill up w Fiber one ( dry ) cereal, ice flavored water, I like Crystal light zero cal. flavorings.
I go bonkers on n near 3PM, 11 PM 2AM 4AM 9AM. but after I have morning coffee I don't want nor think of food until 3PM.
sigh.
I've accepted that, for whatever reason, evening munching is in my life...reducing my intake of calories is the best I can do...microwave popcorn in 100 calorie bags...fat free pudding cups = 80 calories...hummus & pretzels combo for under 150 calories...
Goal = acceptance and coping.
down side, give me cabbage, lol, I will sky write,lol
I like pretzels but I can stop until I eat a whole bag within same day n during night I will finish eating rest, sigh.
breads and bread type foods and pasta are my weakness.
I'v been staying stuff on leaf salads. I also like grapes and/are drained beans in leaf salad. 1 leaf of head of luttace is suppose to only be 15 cal.'s. I also use It. lite salad dressing. that is 15 cal.'s spoon.
I use pie pan as a salad dish. after dressing is on salad do not refg the left over. it will turn mushy, yuk.
yesterday I brought a 2 servicing bakeing dish for salad. I also decided to use measureing cup off medication bottle as a way to measure salad dressing amount.
Sigh, pretzels, sigh
Oh ya, I love chocolate covered pretzels. the good new is that I will set out 5 so pretzels and toss rest dow disposal r down toilet. do not lesve sweet out, toss out as soon as possible qs inb freeze it r toss it down the drain without keep one more bite n more bites.
The best thing to do is to keep foods off grocery list and out of our homes/cars pocket books... so we won't tempt our self.
I can only share what works for me and what little I know about life styles.
Diverting the "idle hands" thing may work; doing hand crafts or work on crossword puzzles during TV time may help. If you have a pet that can fit on your lap then perhaps some pet time may work.
Replacement is good too, as others have said here. Fresh veggies without salt or dip or salad dressing is good. Likewise for unsalted air-popped pop corn.