Evenings are thee WORST enemy!!

OMG I have the same problem! I know I'm not supposed to eat after 6pm and I def try to eat dinner with the family before then. But since this is my first week, I give myself a little lee-way. After dinner, I keep drinking water. I literally have a bottle of water with me wherever I go in the house. If I do get the urge to snack on something, I eat a piece of Werther's candy which is like 15 calories and I suck on it for as long as it lasts. While I'm sucking on it, I drink tons of water. After a while, the time goes by and you have to go to bed. It is a struggle, for sure, but maybe that will help?

Idle hands are the devil's playground!:devil:

Find a hobby, learn to play guitar, read a book..........boredom eating is very common, one of the reasons I'm glad my kids keep me running around like a loonie with their soccer.

Idle hands are the devil's playground!:devil:

Find a hobby, learn to play guitar, read a book..........boredom eating is very common, one of the reasons I'm glad my kids keep me running around like a loonie with their soccer.

THIS. I've always enjoyed arts and crafts. In order to stop boredom eating at night, I picked up knitting again! It keeps my hands busy and I stay focused on something else, so I forget about food. And it's another goal to work toward - I'm trying to finish a blanket for my family before the end of June!

If I have a really strong urge to chew on something, I usually have a pack of sugarfree gum nearby. It's chewy, it's flavorful, and I consume about 5 extra calories. Also, keep a glass of water nearby. If you drink a little water when you first feel hungry, it will reverse the feeling in a healthy way.

One more thing - try eating more during the day, it will make you less hungry at night! This used to be a HUGE problem for me, but someone suggested having a protein bar between lunch and dinner, and it made a WORLD of difference! It was the kickstart I needed to start really losing. You can do it!!!

the last time i ate sugar free jello when my stomach was growling at night...the think i had a rude awakening. my stomach slapped me.:laugh:

evenings are hard for me too. What can i say i like to eat while i watch my evening shows. So i purposely make sure i have 200-300 cal left for a snack. I usually eat fruit/veggies/nuts/yogurt something like that. Its gotten easier since i've been doing this since June last year but it was tough for probably 3-4 months, i just wanted crackers or chips or something snacky like that.

I try to eat small frequent mini meals to keep me full and satisfied. I need to do it this way for the diabetes any way but after it has gone away I plan to keep it up to avoid overeating. I also eat airpopped popcorn! Great to snack on and crunchy! Try changing your plans for that time of the day. look up this website http://newsinhealthe.nih.gov/issue.Jan2012/Feature1 see if this information helps you if it does share it with a friend!! I would post the whole thing but don't know how to do that

I have the same issue. Luckily, lately, I'm not getting home from the gym until 7:30 or 8:00, so I'm not eating dinner until 8:30. The key for me though, is spreading out my food. I have breakfast at 7, snack at 10, lunch at 12, snack at 3, sometimes a half banana and glass of milk before my workout, then dinner at 8:30. I don't eat MORE food, I just spread it out. This means my lunch and supper portions are on the small side (not necessarily small in size, but small calories...it's amazing how many veggies you can eat for very few calories). But, since I eat pretty frequently, I'm always stuffed. It's only if I stay up well past my bedtime that I get hungry again. And in that case, I try to have a couple of nuts, half a glass of milk, or something else around 50 calories that has protein in it.

You know it is better to have a mini-meal or snack than to go to long without eating. If you go too long you usually will overeat! I try to eat something every 3-4 hours . This avoids the hunger that yoiu get from waiting for 6 hours or more to eat. Thionk of your body as a furnance you have to have fuel for your furnance so you have to have food for your body! Hope this helps !

Helloooooo, I am new to the site however, i agree evenings are the wordt for me as well. The other night i pigged out on peanuts, lays potato chips with dip, and even a Suzie Q. they were on salwe 10 for 10. Which is a buck.. OH YEA. I kinda felt bad so what I did was Before bed I burned a candel and put on some fast music and danced through 4 songs I felt great and tired.

I went to bed woke up like when ever I get BORED I will put on some music and just shake it out... I work swing shift so I get home after 11p.m. who wants to eat that late right? So I drink a slim fast or its equivalent ( generic brands):drinker:

Hey ya'll-

I need some tips/help/support or whatever for the evenings.. They are the absolute worst time for me. I usually end up failing. And I hate to admit it, but I don't track it either... I sometimes get bored and want to find something sweet and salty or one of the other. But on the flip side I'm really good all the way up till then hence the evening are the worst for me. And I dont wanna starve myself till dinner cause I'll just make bad choices anyway.. Anybody got anything tips???

Oh my, you sound like me...you shouldn't be starving at any point through this weight loss journey. Many times the calorie deficit we impose upon ourselves at the guidance of MFP "I want to lose 2lbs" is just too steep. You are probably eating under your BMR, which means your body has slowed it's metabolism to conserve energy because you aren't providing it enough to meet basic functions to breath laying in the bed for a 24hr period. You should start at a cut of TDEE - 15% (TDEE total daily energy expenditure) and then make sure to NET your BMR on workout days.

Hun, I tried eating 1200, 1350, 1500 and had the hardest time..I would binge eat, feel guilty, felt horrible, then do it again the next day or two...it is just not sustainable. I then started reading some topics about women eating, actually eating 1800 and up, and losing! Man, off I went...started researching...and I have never looked back. I started a group that is now over 1300 people strong...it isn't necessary to eat under BMR to achieve your goal. I now eat 1900 cals daily and more on workout days and am losing fat, have way more energy, LIFT WAY HEAVIER then I could before, am not agitated, and just feel down right great!

Anyone can join just to read about what I could only touch on hear...it works...and the best thing is now the group is all of about 7wks old so there are women that are seeing the results and just too excited because you can "EAT MORE TO WEIGH LESS"!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3817-eat-more-to-weigh-less

They are the worst for me also.
Especially since our family eats dinner at 5pm. And I go to bed ~11pm.
So I had started a bad habit of snacking at around 8pm. The problem is that I never would want to eat the healthy Greek yogurt (full of protein), etc, but would snack on chips or chocolate covered almonds, etc.
Those extra 100-500 calories every night nullified all the calories I burned while killing myself at TurboKick or Zumba, etc.

So I now do 2 things (I’m on Day 4 of it, so let’s see how long I can keep it up):
1. I split my dinner into 2, so I would eat half w/ the family at 5pm. Drink 2 cups of water. And then eat the 2nd half at 7:30pm after I put the kids to bed.
2. Right after my last bite, I brush my teeth and put in my nighttime mouth guard (like a retainer, to prevent nighttime teeth grinding). It’s part of my bedtime routine; I just do that part a lot earlier.
It’s been working so far.

(My friend is funny: she says she could suck melted ice cream with the night guard in. So this method wouldn’t work for her. Or she could just take it out!)

Hey, the snacking at night became a habit over time, so why can’t wearing a mouth guard (to deter me from snacking) become the new habit?

Amanda

Very good advice, IMO.

Referring to the "watch micros somments above, 40/30/30." SOrry posted this in the wrong manner

Save yourself some calories for the evenings and use them when you snack. I eat lightly during the day but my appetite really gets going in the evenings, so I just make sure I have enough left over for a snack after dinner.

Think yourself thru it. Are your really hungry? Do you really need it? Your not starving you just ate.
Cravings have a name.
Hunger is a physiological state.
It takes at least 30 days to starve to death
4 A's
Avoid
Alter
Adapt
Accept

Put your energy in a different project!

I hear ya, you get all settled in, watching a tv program and a doritos commercial comes on. I try to leave the room for commercials, throw a load of laundry in, unload the dishwasher, let the dogs out, something to keep my mind of munchies. So far, so good but I am only on week 2 :ohwell: