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Originally Posted by Ilene
What!!??
... Eating 1500 calories after 6:30pm may be why you are gaining weight. 1600 cals/day is a very good amount but in order to lose weight you must separate that into 5-6 meals to keep your insulin levels even and you won't be starving when your next meal comes around. Eating regularly keeps your metabolism burning calories and fat. Do you not eat breakfast, snacks, lunch?? When you are eating your calories in one meal you are ravenous and will eat everything in sight. PLUS your body will keep those calories to hoard because your body thinks you are going to starve it again for another 20 hours....
Ilene, trust me, I know that is part of the problem. Unfortunately, sometimes I get so busy at work (i.e., yesterday) that I literally do not have 5 minutes to eat something. Between phone calls and meetings yesterday, it took me almost 40 minutes to even be able to drink a can of v-8.
Today I was able to eat b'fast and lunch (total of about 600 calories) and i plan to eat no more than about 600 for dinner tonight. I should have gotten a snack in today as well, but i didn't eat lunch until 3 - so now i am not really hungry. I will probably get to have dinner around 8 if nothing comes up at work.