Cannot believe how addicted i am to food

jgnatca

Knowing that your big meal is important, you can reduce say, your lunch to a soup or salad with sides (making sure there is sufficient protein) to reduce the calorie count for the day. Pre portioning your daily snack allowance can help too. At home the refrigerator and pantry are simply too handy.

There is boredom eating to consider too. You may need to disrupt your old habits by building new ones, say, a walk to the park or the library every day.

RoxieDawn

gabbyo23 wrote: »

Thanks all. Roxiedawn I do think a rebellion aspect is a factor, I have a pretty big self destruct button, but also genuine hunger.

I'm 5ft 4, and 13St 1. I have lost a stone so far...and I've lost 4 stone previously (pre twin pregnancy) on 1500 cals and I don't remember it being this hard. For background, I gained 2 stone during pregnancy, then 2 stone after through stress eating and too much junk.

My diet is very simplistic as I find it hard to find time to eat...but I try to make it filling.

Breakfast is either cereal with yogurt and banana or eggs and toast/omelette at weekend.
Lunch is usually a ready meal to be honest, or baked potato and salad at weekend. Snacks and would be 10cal jelly, low fat yogurt, light cereal bar or small portion of chocolate/biscuit if I can work it in. I need a snack every couple of hours so I try to use stuff very low cal per portion so I can have a few of them.
Dinner is pasta or stir-fry or something out of freezer with veg and rice.

I am more than aware of all the downfalls of my diet, but I find it really hard to stay on top of calories when I have ten minutes to make and eat a meal so I try and keep it to things I can take out of a packet and just read the calories off the packaging- like salad bags and a ready meal.

Is this why I'm so hungry?

Is there a way that you meal prep one day a week. Like on Sunday or a day off where you can cook up some things like a crock pot meal, grill up a bunch of chicken breasts, pre-make salads, pre-make chicken salad, egg salad, make a big pot of spagehhit sauce (you can do a lot with like make homemade pizza, throw over whole grain pasta, serve with chicken breast and Parmesan cheese, ) pre-make zip lock baggies with raw veggies, and nuts and nut mixes, I can think of a 1000 things that you pre-make throw in the fridge or cabinet and grab and go.

On this day weigh your foods and even pre-log for the week what you plan to eat each day. I eat the same things Mon - Fri breakfast and lunches and snacks (my dinners vary with my husband).

I make sure I eat protein and a healthy fat with almost all my meals. My carbs are anything like potatoes, yogurt (no dry cereal and milk, these make me hungrier), sweet potatoes, vegetables and fruits and berries, etc.