After dinner food regret

amandaeve wrote: »

After dinner I tend to make food decisions I regret. Sometimes I overeat, eat something I flat out didn’t want to eat what I ate, or I eat food so close to bedtime I worry it hinders my sleep. I am wondering if anyone else makes similar decisions and what they did to improve. It’s not so much about what I end up eating, it’s that I want to make eating decisions with confidence and health in mind.

Prelog.

Around lunchtime each day, I prelog most of the rest of my day so that I know what will fit into my calorie limit. And I always include evening snacks.



Also for this one ...

“I am so tired. It’s too close to bedtime to nap, but too early to go to bed. I'll stuff my face until I forget how tired I am”

Drink a large cup of hot, black coffee ... or if that's going to give you too much caffeine and keep you up too late, drink plain a cup of rooibos chai or lemon-ginger tea. I suggest those two in particular because I find those teas are sweet enough I don't need to add sugar.

Also drink a glass of cold water.

The feeling of fatigue is often a symptom of dehydration.


You might also opt to do something in that time like ... go ride that bicycle you've got in your profile photo.

I struggle with this, too. I agree with the above suggested glass of water. I've got a 48 oz mug that I fill with ice water before bed every night. I don't sleep well, or much, so to try to keep me from getting up and snacking, I drink some of it while playing games on my phone. (And yes, I actually get out of bed when playing with my phone.)

Good luck!

My evening snack is prelogged at breakfast.

Sometimes fatigue means you need water. Sometimes it means you need.to.go.to bed.

amandaeve wrote: »

“My boyfriend is so relaxed and carefree. He is handing me a lovingly-made sundae/milkshake/cookies/cake/mixed drink. I don’t really want it, but I don’t want to be uptight, so I’ll eat it and try to be more fun”

I am sorry. I'm just too much of a *kitten* for this scenario to ever fly -- I'd be calling him out for passive-aggressive sabatoge thankyouverymuch.

I just posted this in the "how many times a day do you weigh yourself thred"...I weigh myself twice a day, once in the morning and then again before I go to bed. I found that weighing myself in the evening made me much more conscience about the pre bedtime snacks. Just the thought of facing the scale right before bed makes me think twice and I'll reach for a sensible snack instead. Strawberries and cool whip been the most recent go to.

I try to eat around the same time and trust me before the diet I ate huge portions and snacked alot. I found limiting my diet soda intake helped alot and I don't allow myself any snacking after 8 but sometimes I have to eat dinner a bit later if working late. When I get frustrated I remember how much better I look and feel so I don't feel the urge. You can do it.

amandaeve wrote: »

“My boyfriend is so relaxed and carefree. He is handing me a lovingly-made sundae/milkshake/cookies/cake/mixed drink. I don’t really want it, but I don’t want to be uptight, so I’ll eat it and try to be more fun”

About this ^^

My husband and I both have yogurt as a mid-evening snack. And we each have our own yogurts. His is a higher calorie coconut flavour that he really likes ... mine is a lower calorie peach or vanilla.

We both add things to our yogurt ... I suggested he could get full cream or custard or whatever (he likes that stuff), but he is happy with my low-cal whipped cream. And I have a few lower calories things I add to mine while he adds a few higher calorie things, if he's feeling hungry.

So there's no problem at all with having something yummy in the evening ... but a higher calorie version might be his, and a lower calorie version might be yours.


Also, I don't have much time to bake, but with what little time I do have, I have found some low calorie versions of normally higher calorie baked goods. One was a banana loaf.

I'd never been able to do a successful banana loaf ... they always go flat. But just a few months ago we ended up with a whole lot of bananas which we froze and I decided to try another banana loaf to use some of them up. Most banana loaves tend to be rather high in calories, so I found a low-cal version, and made the banana loaf. I didn't hold out much hope of it turning out ... never had any luck before ... but to my surprise, the low-cal version worked! And it tasted good!! So my husband and I were both able to have slices of banana loaf with butter each evening for a while, as a break from our usual yogurt.


So there are options out there.

prior to eating, drink a glass of water

Maybe a late night snack should be part of your meal plan? I'm thinking strawberries and whipped cream or a nice fruit Popsicle? Yogert, or maybe some raw nuts? If you plan for it and account for those calories it wont be a problem. If you really feel like you must eliminate that 4th meal then try brushing your teeth right after dinner, then you wont want to eat again.

I don't eat after dinner, period. It does help that dinner is around 6 and I go to bed at 8 (to watch a show then asleep around 9-9:30). I'm not hungry after dinner, and I almost always eat to my calorie goal AT dinner so there isn't room to eat anything anyway. Even when I'm in maintenance and not counting calories I'm almost always satisfied with my dinner till I go to bed. As for drinks, I usually drink before dinner and maybe one with dinner, after that there's no point to me in continuing drinking unless I'm out for the night with friends.