Worst time of day for dieting, and how to cope
I'm in the kitchen most of the time (putting groceries away, or making the dog's dinner or cooking our dinner.) For some reason, I am starving then!!! I try to cope by saving all of my snacks for then. But now the problem is when dinner is ready...I'm no longer hungry, but eat because I know I need that last meal (I do NOT eat after dinner...ever!) Each day I tell myself, ok, that was too much, you can't do this anymore. But the next day rolls around and bammo! I do the same thing. This hasn't seemed to adversly effected my diet, but it just doesn't seem right. When is your worse time...and what do you do to ease it? |
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| Deb, when is the last time you eat before this 4:30 time? All the material that I've read on eating says that a person's best bet in not over eating is to eat steadily through the day to keep you from getting to this starving point.
If you were to eat your snacks (which you normally save up) at the 'normal times, like say 1 and 3, are you still starving at 4:30? It could also be from habit. I know that I like to snack my way through cooking dinner, but the last 3 nights I've been painting the dining room and my husband made dinner AND cleaned up and I didn't eat nearly as much. Could you try, for like a week, to not make dinner, or only a minimal preparation meal, so that you wouldn't be in the kitchen for very long? That could be enough to break you of the cycle. |
| I hate to suggest this, but try exercising for a bit when you get home. It does kill the appetite for long enough to get dinner started. Also, have a small snack around 3 pm.
My worst time is after dinner. I can have dinner and an hour later start snacking. And snack until I go to bed. |
| I've never been an after dinner snacker. I guess I'm lucky. Tony and I will be sitting watching tv and he's munching everything in the house. I'm never even tempted. My food day is so stretched out. I have breakfast at 5:30 am, I do have a snack (string cheese and cucumber) at 10:00. Lunch at noon, I skip my afternoon snack, cuz I know I'm be wanting to munch when I get home. Then when I get home, I'm starvin' Marvin! Then dinner at 6:00-6:30-7:00 whenever Tony gets home. Then I'm done. |
| Can you try splitting up your snack? Like have some of the 3pm snack and save the rest and then have that at home? That way you aren't eating as much at once near dinner so hopefully you won't ruin your appetite then.
It sounds like habit eating, especially if you forego an earlier snack so you can eat when you get home (starving). |
| I have just started the "Insulin Resistance" diet.
There are several rules but, one of them is to eat all day! I know it sounds silly but when you eat the right combinations (necessary for the diet to work) all day, it keeps your sugar level and tells your body to burn fat and not store it. I am eating more than I did before and am losing weight! |
| The South Beach diet is designed for insulin resistant people. I bet they are similiar. Where did you find your guidelines? |
| If you are lucky, your library will have the book.
If not, I think you can get it on Amazon, most book stores or health food store. It is, The Insulin-Resistance Diet : How to Turn Off Your Body's Fat-Making Machine (Paperback), by Cheryle R. Hart M.D., Mary Kay Grossman I made up a chart and a food list to make it very easy to follow. My brother-in-law calls it the diet game. I would be happy to send copies of the guidelines and my charts to you or anybody else that wants them. Just send a PM to me with your e-mail address. |
| It's a killer time for me too. Here's what I do:
Pack a cooler with a treat you can consume before you get home. Add the blue ice to keep it cold. You may have to eat in the car before heading home, please don't eat and drive. Make the snack about 2 ounces of protein and either a piece of fruit or some carb......like cooked sweet potato. Drink about 8 ounces of water. You are experiencing a natural sugar drop. Don't compensate with sugar! The protein will counter the fruit sugar, but really the carby sweet potato is better........as would be some carrot and celery sticks. Water rehydrates you which you also may misinterpert as being hungry. |
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