My cravings start right around dinner. I enjoy my dinner immensely, and and hour or two later I'm fighting back wanting to stuff my face with pizza, bread, candy, and the list goes on x.x
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And my last trick, is telling myself that it is good to be feeling hungry, because that means I'm losing weight. Instead of feeling sorry for myself for being hungry and having to punish myself, I praise myself for being hungry...I use positive self-talk to make it a good thing instead of a bad thing. I can't tell you how much this helps me...I just have to remember it and focus on it when I get those hunger pangs.
And I do the same thing! This really helps me fight those cravings off!
very rarely do I win the night time eating battle. Luckilyy cravings aren't too unhealthy. Usually its a banana with peanut butter. Now that I'm maintaining its not a big deal once in a while, but if the scale starts to creep up I gotta suck it up and just chew gum or something. I think I am the only person who does not like tea. I'll drink black coffee by the pot with no sweetener whatsoever but tea of all kinds makes me gag.
Heather, I have a similar problem. I can go all day without eating or feeling hungry, but once I start eating it turns on the sensors or something and I want to keep eating from then on...so I try to carefully space out my allotted food a little at a time to make it till I go to bed, or get to the "hey no more feeling sorry for yourself pitch" late at night.
I wish I knew why I'm not hungry till I eat and then it's like I have a bottomless pit...but I guess it's just the way my mind works.
Jessica, I've never been fond of tea. Straight tea by itself makes me nauseous..even the smell of it does that. But adding a little lemon or sugar and lemon or milk and sugar and lemon makes it more palatable. And for some reason it does seem to calm my food cravings a bit. I'm not sure why.
I do like herbal Yogi Egyptian licorice mint tea too, but that does't satisfy as much as black or green tea, it just tastes yummy. If anyone here loves black licorice, you should try it. It's decadent. I've found some seeds for licorice mint and have started growing my own now, and am going to learn to make a tea concoction using dried peppermint and this licorice mint (which does not taste minty at all, just like licorice), and anise or fennel, and see if I can't make my own cheaper brew. The yogi teas are not cheap.
Last edited by recidivist; 01-11-2009 at 07:53 PM.
I have always preferred to eat more calories at night. I tried to fight it for awhile because everyone always says you should not eat at night if you want to lose weight. Now, I eat breakfast, lunch, and then half dinner at 4pm and half at 8pm. It seems to work well.
I wonder how many others have much smaller appetites when they are active for the day? I have days I cannot really move much (like yesterday) and I'm consumed with thoughts of food and feelings of frustration. Then I have days like today when I can move a little and get outside and do some physical work, and come in feeling like I don't care if I ever eat again. It's 5pm and all I've had today is a bowl of oatmeal. I am slightly hungry, but not feeling like eating. Endorphins are such a huge part of controlling my food cravings. I wonder for those late night cravings how many of them would go away with a good 15 minute or half hour dance workout (music and movement that lifts your spirits). I can't do that (yet) but am hoping to get there some day again.
Last edited by recidivist; 01-11-2009 at 08:09 PM.
Ugh, cravings are the worst. I get evening cravings, usually for sweets. I'm learning to keep healthy snacks in my dorm room (otherwise I end up at the dining hall eating junk food). I keep things like apple sauce (unsweetened) in my room because it's sweet enough to get me through the cravings most of the time, but way healthier than eating a chocolate bar, which is what I would really like to be doing.
I'm having bad cravings right now. The weird thing is I don't actually feel hungry. At all. It was just sort of a habit to eat at this hour before while watching TV and unwinding.
I've read all my usual websites, have checked my email a million times, am not tired yet, there is nothing on TV. They're like, boredom cravings!
But instead of going to the fridge and pigging out, I came here. Which is a step in the right direction
Ialways crave sweets after dinner and late in the evening. I read a trick on women's website and it works:
If you have a craving for something you don't need or should'nt have brush your teeth. 9 out of 10 times you won't mix the taste and who wants to mess up clean teeth.
This is definitely me too! I crave sweet and salty right before bed. Normally I leave about 200 calories or so to have chocolate! Reese's Cups are my favorite and a pack is 230. If I am running low on calories left for the day I have a 90 calorie granola bar by Quaker. They have an oatmeal raisin one that taste like a cookie! For salty I do a pickle. Then If I'm still not satisfied I make a cup of chammomile tea and add a little vanilla creamer and some splenda.
Everyone's got such good tips in here! I just drink room temperature water and tell myself my growling stomach will quiet down in 15 minutes, and it always does I also try to snuggle with my DH, it takes my mind off food in no time
