Erratic eating times

iluvsparkles

Ok, so does anyone else have horrible eating times?
What I mean, is that I am HORRIBLE to barely eat anything during the day, and then gorge myself at night. I am really having trouble breaking the habit! My appetite is nonexistent during the day, then I work out hard, and so I am starving and eat a ton. I fully understand that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and is what gets your metabolism moving in the morning but for some reason I have really been struggling with this.

For example, today I woke up and (I have 1 year old twins) changed and fed the babies and promptly started playing with them (of course I didn't forget my coffee! but that feels to early for me to eat for some reason). I had some yogurt and granola with blue berries around 11 (should be about to eat lunch!) and now it is 5:00, I have to teach zumba in 2 hours and I still haven't had lunch!! I will probably go eat a bagel and banana or something now, and then go teach, where I will go WAY into a calorie deficit and then come home and eat a super high calorie dinner. What is wrong with me?!

dlaplume2

Maybe you should listen to your kids and eat when they are eating. When you feed them breakfast sit and eat with them. When they want a snack eat with them. You will be setting a good example for them to eat healthy and you will get to spend quality with them. It will help boost your metabolism and keep it fired up all day.

Best wishes.

dlaplume2

PS I have to do the same thing. I work in a restaurant and I need to make sure I eat before lunch rush so I am not startving and gorging myself when I do sit and eat lunch.

Bristle82

Maybe you should listen to your kids and eat when they are eating. When you feed them breakfast sit and eat with them. When they want a snack eat with them. You will be setting a good example for them to eat healthy and you will get to spend quality with them. It will help boost your metabolism and keep it fired up all day.

Best wishes.

I agree - I am only 4 days into this fitness plan and have had to totally change my ways... breakfast is the most important meal of the day and your body needs it. Once you get into good habits you will not binge eat because your body won't be starving.

**Change is good - embrace it**

curvyteacher1979

I understand. I am a teacher! Have you tried protein shakes? With me having the summer off, I have more time. When school starts, I am going to have to do shakes. Also, keep fruit and nuts(the food not the people) around. Don't give up. I know you are trying. Keep pushing.

Teemo

Nothing is wrong with you. If you aren't hungry at "traditional" mealtimes, then don't eat. If you eat all of your calories for the day after you workout in the afternoon, then so be it.

There's no reason to restrict yourself to set mealtimes. Eating all 1500 (or whatever number) of your calories at breakfast, or 1500 at dinner, or 1500 via 5 installments of 300 calories has no effect on your weight loss or gain. As long as you "eating a ton" doesn't mean "overeating in relation to your calorie goal" I don't see a problem at all.

Teemo

I would also add that consistency, whichever way you go, will help with so-called "hunger pangs" (which are hormonally regulated based on what your body is accustomed to). If you never eat breakfast, you won't be hungry at breakfast time... but since you always eat large dinners you'll be hungry at dinnertime.

As long as you're consistent it's not a practical problem. If you bounce all over the place though, you may find yourself starving at breakfasttime (even when you don't plan on eating) or not hungry at dinnertime... even if you hadn't eaten anything all day.

DancesWithHooves

Discipline yourself to make sure you get off to the right start in the morning by eating a breakfast within one hour (and NO MORE than 2 hours) after you wake up.

When I started my journey to better health and healthy eating, the first thing I taught myself to "get over" was the fact that I hated breakfast. I never was hungry at that hour and my tummy didn't always enjoy getting something in it that early, either. Over time, however, I adjusted to the new routine of eating a healthy breakfast, and that's one of the best first steps you can take to prevent yourself from over-doing it later in the day or into the evening!

You can do it!!!

sandwraith

You dont want to eat all your calories at once. you need to divide your meals up over the day. by only eating once a day you train your body to constantly struggle with this feast-famine routine. your body can only absorb so many nutrients at a given time so if your body is use to knowing its not getting fed again for a long time it will store the excess nutrients as fat. if you eat every three hours then your motabolism will keep working to burn the excess nutrients and will waist anything it doesnt need instead of storing it. Also if you eat more often you will starting getting hungry more often than once a day. Most like during the day when you have no appetite you are actually hungry but you have just trained yourself with a busy life to ignore it. Another problems is that when you dont eat for a while and then finally eat something you will cause an insulin spike in your body. this is bad because the insulin will also cause you to gain fat. just right down your eating schedule on a daily planner and set an alarm on a watch for your eating times....then eat even if you dont feel hungry. trust me at first it seems counter active to eat when your not hungry and trying to loose wait but after even just a couple days or a week your metabolism will kick in and you may not need the watch anymore. Just make sure you are eating the right foods and you exercise. diet alone is not good, neither is exercise. i believe this is why most people fail, because they only do one and not the other. remember its not just your body you want to change, its a lifestyle you want to change, and it takes a life time commitment.

iluvsparkles

thanks everyone! I have just been having a frustrating time trying to 'get back on the wagon' so to speak. I'm such a roller coaster when it comes to watching what I eat! Time for me to buckle down!