Duh-Didn't eat enough yesterday. Lovely! I should (and DO) know better, the day just got away. I have to break my mindset of starving or avoiding food=losing weight. I went to the grocery store @ lunch yesterday and picked up food to keep in the office since I'm bad to go all day without eating. I just get busy and don't break away. So I felt like I ate a lot yesterday (compared to others...) 2 servings of wheat thins and a lean cuisine. Usually I'm starved when I get home and I eat a huge dinner because I haven't eaten all day. So dinner for me on most occasions could be 900 calories (well, prior to this anyways) then I would likely also snack all night.
Last night I had 2 servings of life cereal w/ lowfat milk for dinner. Just didn't want anything else.
So I laid down to go to bed and now that I think on it and add it up-I'd had about 990 calories all day and I'd gone to the gym that morning and did about 45 mins of intense cardio and about 10 mins weights. Yeah-bad idea.
So between laying down and waking up, I ate a rice krispy treat, a small (150 cal) bag of doritos and another serving of cereal with milk! Helllloooo carb binge! Doh! So yeah, I ate another 400 cals last night then fell back asleep.
All in all, the 400 more still didn't break the bank, I just hate middle of the night binges because I feel so yucky the next morning! Gah!
I've tried to do better today. So far I've had 3 c coffee with a tiny bit of sugar and FF half and half a Superfruit fusion nutrigrain bar and a medium bananna. I have a lean cuisine for lunch in about an hour and will have some apple sauce as a snack before I go home.
Praying tonight that doesn't happen again and am being a lot more mindful of remembering and being OK with eating today!
I'm not sure what your plan is but when I am starving at night I try eating something with protein to stop the hungry. Like take a can of tuna (canned in water not oil), some chopped up pickle, onion, and mustard, and mash it up and eat it- maybe add some whole grain cracker or some cucumbers for crunch- that helped me each time and it was under 250 calories If you add crackers it's more obviously.
I know late night binges suck because they make you feel gross but don't beat yourself up about this. That 400 cals only brought your daily intake up to 1390. That is definitely a normal # for even extreme dieting. Your body probably did feel like it was starving with the 990 cals so it made you so hungry that you would bring your intake up to a healthy level. Doctors say you should never eat less than 1200 cals a day. I know I am definitely guilty of occasionally eating more like 1000 or so but I really try to stay at 1200 if I can. Try to get at least that amount down before it is too late at night. Maybe that will help the binge urges Good luck!
Had a night binge last night-but I know why...
If you add crackers it's more obviously.
