No late night "junk"snacking - March 8 - 14

teetee1281

Oh no, how did I miss so many post? I'm fighting sleep, but I just had to check in briefly. For the last two nights, I completed my dinner way before my cut off time. Actually today, I ate dinner at the mall with my buddy and had oven baked pizza and we just chatted away. I didn't get home officially until 930, but I know we ate well before 7. I will have to read the previous post to catch up on what I missed. I see there are some new faces on here. Happy to have you!

Good night to all! :yawn:

lulabellewoowoo

I'm going to count last night as a success. Once I got home from y bible meeting, I realized I was pretty deficient in my calories for the day (exhaustion makes me less hungry), so instead of falling into the ice cream I was dishing for the kids, I had some frozen grapes (already prepackaged by me and waiting in the freezer for me). Of course, my son ate all of his ice cream and then half of my grapes (gggrrrrr). So calories and cutoff on junk - 5/7.

Tonight will be a 9:00 cutoff for me, and Sunday is family dinner, so probably 8 for that one. Then back to 7:30.

Have a great day everyone! Hope it's sunny where you are.

dewdrop

lulabelle :flowerforyou:! Awesome job!!!
I'm also back on track, so far

rosemary10

I'm on night 5 out of 6. Been kinda sick with sore throat, cough and headache. Just gonna rest up and hope I'm good enough to work on Sun. nite

lulabelle - love the smiley devouring the choc bunny and cute that your son ate up your grapes. You're a smart mom - that just might help him when he's an adult and wants to get healthy.

Good job dewdrop, zaza and teetee!

jeh - don't you just love those aha moments? It seems that MFP (my fitness pal) does that to a person. It does that to me. Plus you get the benefit of other people's insights.

dewdrop

Good job, ladies! Zaza, you are inspiring.
Rosemary, first of all, well done! and hope you feel better by tonight - maybe a hot tea can calm your throat. Secondly, guess what? I had another good night! :happy:. So THANK YOU! :flowerforyou: (and also the others for being encouraging and motivating).

nicola_743

Hi,

What is the challenge? Is it not to eat junk food in the evenings for all week long? I tell you what is great. I crave chocolate sometimes and crisps and I've started eating a packet of Kelloggs Special K Minis in chocolate flavour. They're great for nibbling and only 99 calories per packet. They go fast though if you don't take your time and nibble them but they're great and filling and chocolatey! X

dewdrop

What is the challenge? Is it not to eat junk food in the evenings for all week long?

The challenge is rather to not sabbotage ourselves by doubling the caloric intake in the evening .

It's cute to see how each week we have one person that gives us tips as to what they eat in the evening to cope with the cravings. When I first started this, I had in mind the following situation: I usually start with an apple after dinner (really healthy). Then the apple makes me hungry and I want something salty. From that point onwards, it's a downhill road. So my strategy is: NOTHING past dinner, water and tea excluded. Not saying that's the only road there is, but this is working for me and it turns out the next morning that I was fine without the apple.

dewdrop

What is the challenge? Is it not to eat junk food in the evenings for all week long?

The challenge is rather to not sabbotage ourselves by doubling the caloric intake in the evening .

It's cute to see how each week we have one person that gives us tips as to what they eat in the evening to cope with the cravings. When I first started this, I had in mind the following situation: I usually start with an apple after dinner (really healthy). Then the apple makes me hungry and I want something salty. From that point onwards, it's a downhill road. So my strategy is: NOTHING past dinner, water and tea excluded. Not saying that's the only road there is, but this is working for me and it turns out the next morning that I was fine without the apple.

rosemary10

Good job dewdrop! 4 is good. And thanks for the hot tea idea, I brought Raspberry Zinger to work and I need to go fix it so I don't raid the Snack Box again (had a small bag of cheetos- my fav). I'm going to walk away and check on everybody and see if anyone needs help. Everything is pretty calm tonight though.

I'm 6/7

lulabellewoowoo

I completed this week with 6/7 for no late night eating (last night, I was just hungry), and 5/7 with staying within my calories. Weekends are hard because I don't have any spare time to exercise on Saturday and Sunday. I have started running outside, but it poured like crazy both days. Next weekend will be better.

How did you all do?

dewdrop

Well done, ladies! Please keep on counting and post the progress for this week at
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/86393-no-late-night-snacking-march-15-21

nicola_743

Lol I didn't mean to encourage people to eat. To be honest, I didn't mean for snacking in the evenings, I just thought I'd add that I've discovered these great snacks. They're more an afternoon thing at work.

I'm going to get on the challenge from today although I don't eat a lot in the evenings but my weakness is the weekends or if I'm at a friends house she snacks a lot and I'll join her so I'm going from today!