Eating Too Much Dinner/Hungry

I'm pretty sure your "biggest" meal of the day should be breakfast then healthy snacks through the day. Then there's your lunch & dinner. Maybe try finding recipes that are more filling but less your calorie in take?

Nothing is wrong with the time you eat your allotted calories. I do the same thing, i love a big healthy dinner. In 42 days of logging I'm down 10.6 lb, with occasional overages and sporadic exercise.

I live a big dinner, and eat lightly through the day to make room for it. It hasn't stopped me losing weight! I really believe the key to success is to make it work for you.

I have been trying to include protein in my afternoon snack and I think that helps. I also love to cook and dinner is my favorite meal as well. I know it seems simple but sometimes I pop a piece of gum in my mouth or brush my teeth before I cook dinner and it helps me not eat while I am cooking!

I save about 1000 calories or more for the night time. I've had to learn how to eat during the day to stay full to do so. Breakfast is coffee with cream and sugar, lunch is around 1:00 and is usually a can of tuna with a whole box/bag of lettuce, laughing cow cheese, and hot sauce for dressing. I get a second coffee around 3:00 and if I'm training at night, I will have a protein bar around 4 or 5. The key for me is the volume of my salad. I eat a stupid amount of lettuce. I like it and it's worth it to me.

You just need to find a little balance. Meal timing isn't important for weight loss, but if not eating during the day is causing you to go over your calorie allotment at night, then you really should eat a bit more at lunch. Plus, you'll likely enjoy your dinner a bit more if it isn't causing you the anxiety of overeating.

What you eat...that english muffin and popcorn, would leave me really hungry. Those are snacky things I leave for discretionary calories. Not how I stay satiated.

You could reset your goals to a 1 pound per week loss and have enough calories to allow for snacks and suffer less frustration. @rankinsect is bang on in his comments. Most aim for too aggressive a goal.

I've always had issues with eating huge dinners and still do. I just drastically reduce my cals during the day. Eggs, and salads work best for me during the day. This does not always happen tho, but I still end up having large dinners. So, what I know about myself is no matter if I eat more cals during the day or less cals during the day, I eat large dinners. So, I am for less cals during the day. Yes, I think you may want to try for more veggies and a lean protein at lunch. I would eat alittle cheese and/or raw veggies while u r cooking. Just try different things and eventually u will find what works best for you. And drink water with your snack while cooking dinner. It seems to help me. Good Luck!

I'm pretty sure your supposed to have breakfast though I usually don't as I always end up as hungry or hungrier if I do. I completely relate to big dinners. I've lost quite a bit of weight but this habit made that just that bit harder but it comes down to how much you eat and overeating is what causes weight gain. You do metabolise differently when you sleep though so it is a good idea to not eat heavily before sleeping.

Definitely ditch the 2 lbs/week. You need sustainability above all else. I just adjusted my goal recently from 1.5 to 1 lb/week and the 200 extra calories makes all the difference. I have been unintentionally letting myself get too hungry before dinner and have been running up a couple hundred calories snacking while cooking. It's dumb really... if I just ate an 80 cal. greek yogurt, I'd be good and it wouldn't cost me near as much as the snacking. I'm with you on the big dinners, though

socrmommy wrote: »

kdblpn wrote: »

I start my calories at 3pm so i can have the extra calories for dinner..then i adjust what i eat the next day for breakfast and lunch so i can stay under my calories for the 24 hours

Can you explain further??!? That sounds really interesting

I work night shift so i get up at 3pm. I start my calories for the day at 3pm. That is the reason I started logging like this. However i soon realized when i would switch to logging from midnight to midnight on my days off that i would be over on calories. Reason being, i love dinner meals and a snack around 10pm. So at 3pm everyday i start counting my calories for the day. I eat dinner with my family...usually whatever they are having but healthier versions or smaller portions. Then if i am feeling like a bedtime snack i have one....Then i go to bed and when i get up the next morning i have a small breakfast (i dont care for breakfast foods to much) and then i see how many calories i have left for snacks and lunch. I adjust my menu accordingly. Even if i dont have alot of calories left for a decent size meal for lunch, my calories start over at 3pm so its not that big of deal to me. It is alot easier for me to distract myself from food in the middle of the afternoon then at night. Remember if u r going to log this way then you log dinner and any snacks you have on todaya diary and the next morning when u wake up and eat breakfast you have to go back and log it on yesterdays diary, same with lunch. Then your evening meal will start your new diary.

If I understood correctly your problem is starving by the time you get home and then snacking while making dinner.
My advice would be to have some healthy low calorie snack ready to grab when you get home. Some fruits, or veggies with some yogurt. If you eat a low calorie snack you won't have to lower your dinner calories too much, and you won't be going over your goal.