No more late night snacks challenge

dewpearl

Hello, MPFs,

I thought I'd follow the trend here and get me motivated by batelling this not on my own, but with other people. It just occured to me I just can't be the only one in this kind of trouble.

My context: The aerobic classes that I afford (and enjoy) attending are around 7pm, so since I should not eat big less than 2hrs before, I've got to eat something at some point after! Which means I get home at 8:30 - 9sh and I have a little bit of this, a little bit of that, while surfing the net and writing posts in the latest threads on MFP :happy: . This means I still have a little bit of this and a little bit of that even at 11pm :explode: .

Time to change that, since the watter weight is still a figure on the scale :grumble: and I must say, I am a scale addict! :embarassed: So I'm challenging myself to stop eating after 9. :drinker: (watter and tea only)

Game rules are easy. Following the idea of the binge thread, we count the days when we've stuck to our plan. Every time we fail, we go back to day 1. It's up to each of us to decide what's their acceptable hour for the latest snack or for dinner.

Anybody in? I'd be sooo happy not to be alone in this :flowerforyou:

dewpearl

Hello, MPFs,

I thought I'd follow the trend here and get me motivated by batelling this not on my own, but with other people. It just occured to me I just can't be the only one in this kind of trouble.

My context: The aerobic classes that I afford (and enjoy) attending are around 7pm, so since I should not eat big less than 2hrs before, I've got to eat something at some point after! Which means I get home at 8:30 - 9sh and I have a little bit of this, a little bit of that, while surfing the net and writing posts in the latest threads on MFP :happy: . This means I still have a little bit of this and a little bit of that even at 11pm :explode: .

Time to change that, since the watter weight is still a figure on the scale :grumble: and I must say, I am a scale addict! :embarassed: So I'm challenging myself to stop eating after 9. :drinker: (watter and tea only)

Game rules are easy. Following the idea of the binge thread, we count the days when we've stuck to our plan. Every time we fail, we go back to day 1. It's up to each of us to decide what's their acceptable hour for the latest snack or for dinner.

Anybody in? I'd be sooo happy not to be alone in this :flowerforyou:

msblondy16

HI! I'm totally in, what a great challenge! I also have the problem of getting home late from the gym or the lab but I need to try all that I can to lose as much as I can (healthily!) in 5 weeks. I am going to set my time for 9 p.m. as well. I am hoping today will be day 1 for me. Yesterday/early this morning I had to eat late into the night because I was up until 4... boo.

Ok away with the water weight!!! Yay let's do this! :bigsmile:

HEALTHJUNKIE

Count me in! My kids activities usually keep me out until around 8, so I eat dinner, then desert and go to bed. I then usually wake up around 10:45 and munch out on whatever I can find that has sugar in it! I'll set my time for 9pm too. I may not sleep well for a couple of days, but I REALLY need to cut out the middle of the night snacks! Thanks for putting this challenge out here :-)

gmukris

Hey, I'm in for this challenge! I'm setting my cut-off time at 7:30 PM because I usually go to bed around 9.

haleyk

Not eating after 7pm has helped me lose 5lbs in the last 2 weeks. I guess I didn't realize how a few snacks add up. I do feel hungry at times but the weight in day is my reward.

ACastle1

I'm in for this challenge. I tend to want to eat if I am up later. I will set mine for 8:30pm.

Good Luck everyone.

dewpearl

Yeay, I'm so so so happy. :flowerforyou: for all who joined - you are lovely!

Now today isn't gonna be my day no 1, but I am surely encouraged that I can do this, now that we're all in it together! And, hey, not a good time to panic (if you know the Chubchubs :laugh: ), but Christmas is so near (heh, who hasn't noticed, just by going to the grocery :ohwell: )

So yeah, let's do it. Today is my day 0, hehe :embarassed:

rainbow118

I'm in, i normally end up snacking while i'm watching tv or on the computer even if i'm not hungry. I'm going to try and set my cut off time at 7:30 as i normally go to bed between 9-10. So only water or caffeine free tea for me after then. Its gonna be hard to do at first but i'm gonna try and stick too it. So today is going to be day 1 for me.

dewpearl

Welcome, rainbow, and good luck to you too :flowerforyou: . If this was easy for me, I wouldn't have started the thread . But hey, as haleyk put it, the weigh in day will be the payback time! :happy:

LifeChanges42

I am so totally up for this challenge. I am a late night binge eater... I have a son with severe food allergies and I wait to eat the things he can't until he goes to bed. I hate myself after I eat everything I can think of. My hardest thing is that I love to eat and play pokerstars on the computer. I need the support not to eat this late at night.




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zaza54

Good morning-
Too bad I didnt see this last night BEFORE I finished the pumpkin bread and quiche! This is a great challenge. Eating at night is definitely my downfall. By then, my resolve has weakened and I don't even bother to count the calories (like last night). Sometimes I actually am hungry and know I won't get to sleep if my stomach is growling, but mostly I just wander in search of something satisfying. (What does that mean?:laugh: )
So, I think I'll make my cut-off time 9:30 p.m.since I never go to bed before 11:30. This way I can have a little something if I'm starved, but then it's over. I may come here looking to see who's awake and try to distract myself chatting with you instead of eating in the kitchen.
Have a good week-end. Hopefully today will be day 1. Will let you know tomorrow.
Zaza

zaza54

I just had an idea to keep from eating after cut-off time. How about teeth-whiteneing strips? Can't eat anythign with those in your mouth. Lose weight AND get whiter teeth! Or, just floss and brush teeth at cut-off time. Who wants to floss twice?!

busdriver

This is a great post. I have no problem logging into the diary for breakfast and lunch. But dinner time and late night snacks are my downfall. After dinner I just have to have something in my mouth. I am setting my cut off time at 7:30 pm. I read somewhere where eating to close to bedtime is not good for the stomach. I'm in!! :happy:

dewpearl

Zaza, brushing teeth at cut-off time is a very good idea. Makes us aware of the commitment, right? Will try this myself.

wlhanisch, the computer is also the :devil: keeping me up late and it goes so well with snacking, doesn't it :grumble: ? Will it help if we both challenge each other into either reading books and telling each other what's worth reading next or into beginning tidying up the house (and pretty soon decorating ) for Christmas? How's that to you?

PurdyMommy

I AM IN! NO FOOD FOR ME PAST 8:00pm. I will keep drinking my choclate milk before bed though! Thats 9ish.

kirstina_23

Im in 10:00 pm is my cut off im in bed around 12 12:30.

Like everyone else im big night time eater. I usually dont eat my first meal till 3:00-5:00 i get up around 9-11:00 am. So by the end of the day im trying to eat all my calories and extra ones. Today will not be day one for as its 10:30 and well i have my vanilla pudding wating for me!

gmukris

Today is day 2 for me!!!

dewpearl

Today is day 2 for me!!!

Way to go! This one's for you:

I'll count today as my day 1, since I'm staying strong after going out with friends, but making sure we meet early enough for me to have my drink before 9. Well, I finished it shortly after, but today definitely counts as day 1 (since I'm typing here with bare hands :laugh: ).

Good luck everyone! :flowerforyou: Love to see this place getting crowded, hehe :glasses: .

dewpearl

I just remembered how this feels like. Instead of waking up in the mornings with a bitter taste in my mouth and thinking "I don't deserve breakfast after easting so much last night, but I am hungry, phew :grumble: ", it'll be "YEAH! Breakfast time!". Hehe, guess we'll be dreaming the first couple of nights, huh, guys? :laugh:

zaza54

I have managed so far not to eat past my 9:30 cut-off. :happy: Unfortuantley, I think it's because I ate half a quart of pralines n cream at 7:30. :grumble: My husband went to rent a video and detoured to B & R. :devil: I can't remember the last time I had ice cream. The only good thing about eating so much of it is that I don't think I'll want to eat it again for a very long time.
I'm going to bed so I can count today as Day 1 of no late night snack. Thank you for starting this thread. I obviously need the help.
Good night.

HEALTHJUNKIE

sadly, today is going to have to be my day 1. We went out with friends last night and didn't get home until almost midnight. The lowfat frozen yogurt was calling my name, so I ate the rest (1/2 pint) and then some sweetened dried mango. Now that the frozen yogurt is out of the house, I won't have the temptation I have now officially gained back 5 of the 35 I lost over the last 3 years, so it's time to get serious again! Happy Sunday!

dewpearl

Today will be my day 2. Chewing an Orbit, but I stopped eating even before 9. I don't see any danger coming my way . I think I'll get over my impatience and start counting the days in the mornings, the day after .

How's everyone else doing? Good luck, everyone :drinker: .

LifeChanges42

Dewpearl,
I like the whitening strip idea. I have never used them but I should. Tonight will be night 3. Last night we were at a wedding and all I had after 7:00pm was three M&M's and that was before 9:00 so I am good.

My sister-in-law was 100lbs (she's 4'10") before she had her last two babies. She started having supper at 6:00 sharp and no snacks afterward. Within three months she went from 140 down to 105. That was more than 10 lbs a month. She still ate everything else the same.... no diet foods or smaller portions... just NO snacking after supper. Not even when she makes her middle child a snack a 8:00pm...
She wants to get down to 95lbs and I think she can do it just by not snacking late.

I hope I have nearly as much luck.

hmo4

RIGHT ON! This is so my downfall! The teethwhitening trick can only be done for a couple weeks though or they will be super sensative. But maybe that's the trick-too sore to eat, haha. Today will be Day1 for me and 8-830 will be cut off. So how are we to keep each other posted or looking for support? What are we calling this Challenge? I'm in so many now, I can't remember who to report to!:huh: Add me as a friend and put late night eaters as subject. Here's to tea and water.:drinker: hm4

phatchic91

hey i'd luv 2 b in. hope i'm not 2late. i'm gonna start my time at 8:15 or so starting 2morrow. best of luck 2 u all!

ladybug2

Hi, I'm in night snacks are my downfall will start tom cut off 8:30

zaza54

I'm just checking in. This is Day 2 for me. I was tempted, but I was already out for dinner earlier this evening so I'm avoiding temptation and writing here instead of scavenging in the kitchen. Good luck everyone. Talk to you tomorrow night.
Zaza

kirstina_23

Ok last night i missed my cut off by 20 mintues cause i had to get some more calories in i was way off but i had a small piece of cake and wheat toast with some low fat turkey. Nothing oh wait then hubby came home at 11 30 and had some almonds so scratch that i lied ok still havent gotten to day one yet! To all the others that are doing well congrats and keep up the good work.

gmukris

Tonight will be day 4 for me! I am finding that it's easier to say no, you don't need or want that snack because of this challenge, which is really helpful!

PurdyMommy

Last week I did good and this weekend I messed it up! I will do good again this week.