STARVING after work

Plan ahead - either have your dinner prepared so that you can eat it quickly, or have some healthy snacks available to tide you over while you cook.

It sounds like you aren't getting enough calories during the day. You shouldn't be "starving" if you've properly fed yourself. I would evaluate what you are having for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack.

Try keeping something very healthy, either in the car or in the office fridge for the drive home. Carrot sticks, celery sticks, grapes, or even pop some popcorn for the ride home. That way when you walk in the door, you aren't attacking the fridge.

Eating after work and before dinner got me to my starting weight. I would recommend a healthy snack as you prepare dinner and a good dose of self control which will be easier due to the snack. A piece of fruit, string cheese, and a tall glass of water will do wonders. I also do a granola bar if I'm going to workout in the afternoon.

I have the same thing every day & even the health snack doesn't work at 6pm on the train on the way home. What I've found is that a big glass of water & some slices of ham or a mini babybel light make me feel less deprived and I can make it through to dinner then. It works for me & I know that the reason the healthy snack doesn't satisfy me is that I'm after mouth feel & salt more than calories.

Keep strong & find a strategy that works for you. Listen to your body - if you don't want carrot sticks when you walk through the door (I sure don't after I've worked hard all day!), have a big glass of water and a low fat protein based snack like me and if that doesn't work for you have some nice low cal high flavour crisps or an individually wrapped flap jack. Just have one & promise yourself that you'll not have anything else for at least 20 mins so it has time to hit your body and deal with your starvation sensation.

Trial and erro but you'll get there! :happy:

Fail to plan, plan to fail!

I am the same way and always shove an extra protein bar or oatmeal that I fix myself when my day is over, before I head home. I need something to tide me over! That also helps since I choose to work out right before dinner. I can't wait THAT long!

I'm always hungriest after work too! Drives me bananas! What really gets me through is to make sure my afternoon snack is high in protein and healthy fats. I'll have a greek yogurt or protein shake with nuts. That keeps me satisfied until dinner. Also, I make sure to eat my afternoon snack right before I leave work (around 3 or 4). That buys me plenty of time until dinner.

I'm always hungriest after work too! Drives me bananas! What really gets me through is to make sure my afternoon snack is high in protein and healthy fats. I'll have a greek yogurt or protein shake with nuts. That keeps me satisfied until dinner. Also, I make sure to eat my afternoon snack right before I leave work (around 3 or 4). That buys me plenty of time until dinner.

Whilst were on the subject of bananas.....

You could eat a banana.

Have you tried a snack about an hour before going home? I used to have this same problem, but a small handful of unsalted almonds does the trick for me. It keeps me full through an afternoon workout too!

All great tips! This is the worst time of day for me where I just want to eat anything and everything. Some days I don't even know what I"m craving whether it be sweet or salty so I try it all. LOL If I exercise when I get home then have a protein shake it does help though. I wish this was easier.

I do really good at work controlling my calories, but when I get home I am STARVING and just want to grab whatever is in my face. Most days I can just throw together dinner and be ok. But some days when dinner takes longer I end up grabbing a bunch of junk and then I'm not hungry for dinner.

Does anyone else have this problem after getting home from work/school? I don't know if this is a habit (I used to come home from school when I was younger and eat) or if I need to find a new strategy to keep from blowing my calories the minute I get home.

Any suggestions are much appreciated!

I run into the same problem from time to time! I normally try and drink a lot of water at the end of my workday to control hunger or bring a healthy snack like celery or almonds to munch on after lunch and before leaving. I also try and do my workout as soon as I get home which for some reason makes me not eat as much after. One of the easiest things though is to plan your day the night before, plan out your dinner and have as much ready as possible so all you have to do is through it in the oven,pan, grill, whatever and your set!

You really need to evaluate for yourself if this is truly hunger or if it's habit. My husband and I both struggle with this habit of wanting to eat something the minute we walk through the door. I, too, used to come home from school and the first thing I did was have a snack. It's like ingrained in me now....come home, have snack. I've even noticed sometimes that we'll come home from eating out and I will experience that urge to eat when I walk in the door. I'm obviously not hungry since we just finished eating at a restaurant, so it's clearly habit kicking in. You need to be able to tell the difference between when you're really starving and when you're just responding to triggers that make you want to eat. If you're really hungry, have a protein rich snack like others have said. If you're not, find something else to do until the urge to eat has passed.