When You Want to Eat Healthy, Then Don't.

kshama2001

AnnPT77 wrote: »

kshama2001 wrote: »

JennFit5K wrote: »

The honesty is appreciated. It helps me to reflect on solutions when I've seen angles I can't see on my own. It's a great community here. When you're ready you do it right? My period came hard and early which explains the recent bloating and cravings but not the long term. Which would be me just not being ready. Long term health wise, I do need to be more mindful about my nutrition. I've gone years of good eating, but lately I've been lazy and it's catching up to me. I start great in the morning and afternoon, then I tumble downhill in the evenings. The herbal tea trick works and it's a small habit I can start with. I've been striking a much better work life balance that I plan to continue in September so dinners have been getting more homemade and less take out. I've been working on a long term plan for better dinners and much less take out. But now to work on the after dinner boredom binges.

Often when women say they start great and binge in the evenings, they are not eating enough earlier in the day (or not eating macros that are satiating to them,) which easily triggers a binge.

Like this, only Wed, Fri, and Sunday is every day:



https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/1200-calorie-diet/

Yes. Or possibly there's a sleep quality/quantity, over-exercise, or stress management issue causing fatigue.

Fatigue can trigger appetite (energy seeking) while lowering inhibition to over-eating.

Shooting for fast loss can be a trap, counterproductive in various ways.

@JennFit5K Speaking of fatigue, and hard periods, any chance you're anemic? That certainly caused crippling fatigue and demotivation for me.

Do get your iron levels tested rather than jumping in to supplementing. If you are anemic, it's important to establish a baseline, and if not, too much iron has problems of its own.