Eating Too Much Dinner/Hungry

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  • socrmommy
    socrmommy Posts: 31 Member
    kdblpn wrote: »
    socrmommy wrote: »
    kdblpn wrote: »
    I start my calories at 3pm so i can have the extra calories for dinner..then i adjust what i eat the next day for breakfast and lunch so i can stay under my calories for the 24 hours


    Can you explain further??!? That sounds really interesting

    I work night shift so i get up at 3pm. I start my calories for the day at 3pm. That is the reason I started logging like this. However i soon realized when i would switch to logging from midnight to midnight on my days off that i would be over on calories. Reason being, i love dinner meals and a snack around 10pm. So at 3pm everyday i start counting my calories for the day. I eat dinner with my family...usually whatever they are having but healthier versions or smaller portions. Then if i am feeling like a bedtime snack i have one....Then i go to bed and when i get up the next morning i have a small breakfast (i dont care for breakfast foods to much) and then i see how many calories i have left for snacks and lunch. I adjust my menu accordingly. Even if i dont have alot of calories left for a decent size meal for lunch, my calories start over at 3pm so its not that big of deal to me. It is alot easier for me to distract myself from food in the middle of the afternoon then at night. Remember if u r going to log this way then you log dinner and any snacks you have on todaya diary and the next morning when u wake up and eat breakfast you have to go back and log it on yesterdays diary, same with lunch. Then your evening meal will start your new diary.

    Thank you so much! That makes sense!!!
  • ridge4mfp
    ridge4mfp Posts: 301 Member
    When you come home starving for dinner, I suggest a packet of string cheese or a mini-babybel. The protein will help the big hunger pains until you get to dinner. It should also help you to have a smaller portion of dinner (with more protein, which is good for satiation). Try to train yourself to eat your dinner until you are no longer hungry, rather than stopping only when you are full. Take leftovers for lunch the next day.

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