How to not kill your calories after being good all day

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  • theresmynapkin
    theresmynapkin Posts: 183 Member
    only every day.
  • SDkitty
    SDkitty Posts: 446 Member
    So I have a bad tendency to be so hungry when I get home from work that I start picking while I'm making dinner. I did good yesterday, but then started eating some crackers, some croutons, and some olives that we were adding to our meal.

    This used to happen to me on a daily basis, I am usually in the office my 530am so by the time I'm driving home I am famished! Since my boyfriend doesn't get home until 5 or 6 I wait to eat dinner. My solution?

    --I always have my liter water bottle at work and drink lots of water in the final hours of work.
    --I always have a portion controlled filling snack to munch on for the drive home in my bag like a planters granola bar or fresh fruit . Someone mentioned cucumbers - those are excellent to snack on in traffic!
    --Get those damned devil dogs out of your cabinets! If you are a habitual snacker like me, you can't keep junk like that around. You will eat it,
    --Always have an available healthy snack in the fridge. If I buy celery but don't chop it up right when I get home I won't eat it. Make the good food ready to eat so when you're dying for a "before dinner" the easiest thing to grab is something that won't kill your day.

    :flowerforyou:
  • Kimdbro
    Kimdbro Posts: 922 Member
    This was a huge problem for me... once I saw the numbers were in red, I'd go all or nothing mentality and "well I'm over anyway" - which is truely insane.... anyway, I have now the habit of drinking an extra bit of water and eating an apple or a cheese stick on my way home, kills the 'hunger' I feel so I don't gorge myself at supper or snack while making dinner.

    The other thing I did is cut myself a break on the calorie counter, and upped my daily intake goal by 150 calories, ironically the trick has worked and the ticker stays green, I'm usually finishing the day with an easy 200 calories left to go. So "really" 50 under. Something just clicked in the brain as long as the number stays green.

    I have also started deliberately leaving something on the plate, even drinks, just drink 3/4 of the specialty coffee, or 3 bites of the lasagna... whatever, bits and peices here and there make a difference of up to 250 calories, or I take a 20 minute walk for the extra 80 burned calories. Hope that helps
  • JLHNU212
    JLHNU212 Posts: 169 Member
    I too have the same problem and am glad you asked this question, because some of replies are GREAT!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    I usually leave too many calories for dinner, so if I want a treat after, I can. It works for me (unless I'm starving, but then I do another workout after dinner!).
  • gollyd
    gollyd Posts: 15
    This is my biggest battle....I will do great all day for a week straight...then one day it'll strike me....and I'll eat, then eat some more....pretty soon I have gained the 3lbs I lost the week prior. SO all of this advice is helpful to me. I go week by week. If my life is a little less chaotic one week, house is clean, kids behaving....then I don't tend to snack when I get home. When I come home to an overwhelming scene....I'll plop my butt right down and just eat. I don't want to cook around a mess or if the kids need my help I tend to do that before cooking dinner......then we are all starving. So I have made it a point to create an envirnment that will help me in this battle. With my job, I am off at 2:45....and I tend to want to snack then. So I have allotted my workout time to be in the afternoons.....keeps me away from the food. Then when I get home I am hungry....my sister told me to eat egg whites.....so I will make a few egg whites (low in calories and high in protien) WORKS WONDERS!

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