OMG, this is hilarious...sounds like something my husband would say!

Mine was always the wasteland between supper ending and bedtime... I'd graze constantly... even 'healthy snacks' when eaten by the truckload pack on pounds LOL

I had to go cold turkey on the eating after dinner, and haven't done it in a few years now, don't really miss it. My constant weakness however, is that my default "treat" is FOOD! If i'm happy - yay EAT cuz you're happy!!! If I accomplish something, yay EAT! you 'deserve' it! hahahah that thinking got me over 300 pounds thank you very much! I was always a happy, celebratory eater -- when i was sad or down, food held no interest. Or stressed - ack, if I'm stressed I still can't eat a morsel or i'll barf!

I think I do pretty much all of these! I am ravenous right before and for the first couple days of TOM, I completely lose my willpower in social situations (something I really need to work on!) and I absolutely CANNOT take naps. I just don't allow myself to, because I wake up ravenous every, single time and just start cramming anything and everything into my face. Also, I have to constantly think about not eating when I get bored or I will minddlessly munch, especially at work.

The couple of days before TOM are the worst for me. The rest of the month I make good food-related decisions. Even when I've let myself get too hungry I manage to keep it together and make good choices. But for that day or two I just have such bad cravings and have to talk myself down from binging on pizza and chocolate, and I'm not always successful if there's an easy source of either (e.g. early January when Christmas chocolate was still everywhere).

For some reason it took me a while to make the connection between the horrible cravings and TOM, but once I did I found it easier to resist them. It's easier to tell myself "no" when I know that it will pass before long, and I only have to fight it for a day or two.

If I have a cold or some other minor sickness, I am starved the whole time and totally binge.

I have my cravings pretty much under control until I walk into the break room at work and see someone with donuts or they are talking about my favorite junk food. I have to leave the room!

This thread has made me realize that I'm happy that my TOM this month is right when I get my wisdom teeth out! I won't be able to eat crap! Ice-cream and froyo makes my stomach hurt, so I wont be able to even cheat that way.

In the evenings, that is when we (my husband and I) have always snacked, usually on unhealthy foods.

Now I am trying to turn those into healthy snacks!!

Social situations and hangovers. I feel like I have to compensate for obsessing over diet and calories and food by "proving" that I do eat in front of other people, even though no one has accused me of not eating. Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Being bored at work is another thing. If there are treats/snacks out, I will just pick at them relentlessly (like getting up every 15 minutes to have some more) until they are gone.

*TOM. I crave it all.

*When I can smell my trigger foods at work or elsewhere. That's pure water torture.

*When someone eats it in front of me.

*Pizza. Anywhere. On a picture. In a sentence. Mmmm....pizza. I miss you pizza. I love you pizza. (Please find me, I am lost in NoPizzaLand, pizza.)

Now!!! The scale isn't moving and I'm frustrated!

Any time there is CAKE around!! Seriously, I LOVE cake. My mom lives with us and last night I came home to find an Alden Merrill lemon cake (and lemon cake is my ultimate favorite) in the refrigerator. Talk about willpower! Each time I opened the frig - there it was, starting me right in the face. I even contemplated having a *small* piece - just to taste it - but talked myself right out of it knowing if I had a *small* piece - it would soon turn into a large piece! So I resisted the temptation - but MAN it was HARD!!!

I'm weird, I have no appetite at all during TOM.

My weakness is night time, when my kids and husband go to bed. Then I just wanna eat eat eat!!

The few days before TOM are rough for me - I crave chocolate and fat like crazy. But once TOM begins I have such horrible cramps that I don't even want to eat. Over the past 8 months though my cycle has been super screwy, and so I often have my PMS symptoms for weeks at a time... and no period ever comes.

So far in my wimpy two weeks of calorie counting, I've just avoided the situations that make me want to eat all the stuff I shouldn't. I'm on cupcake duty for birthdays at work next week though, so that will be a challenge.