Vulnerable time of day?

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Registered: 07-25-2005
Vulnerable time of day?
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Wed, 07-27-2005 - 1:54pm

Does anyone else go through this?

My most vulnerable time of day is breakfast and dinner;

In the morning, I am tempted to just throw everything to the wind and eat whatever, but if I do, that sets the tone for the day and I feel like a failure.

At dinner, I am tired and my defenses are down and I just want to relax and eat, and often this involves just saying "the heck with it, I will start over again in the morning" and if I do that, I wake up the next morning feeling like I let myself down the night before.

During the day, at work, I am fine, but early in the morning I get tempted, and then again at night, either right at dinner time or right before bed.

What stinks is that at night, I am in the HOME STRETCH.. all I need to do is eat and go to bed, so why would I screw that up? but I do.. my resolve is sooo low at night.. what about you? how do you handle it?

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Wed, 07-27-2005 - 10:03pm
Late afternoon and after dinner are my worst times. I am trying out a new theory to see if I do better if I plan lots of healthy snacks throughout the day. That way I won't get overly hungry and go on a binge. sharla
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Registered: 05-25-2005
Thu, 07-28-2005 - 10:51am

Oh boy do I ever have a vulnerable time of day!

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Registered: 05-23-2003
Thu, 07-28-2005 - 1:57pm

My most vulnerable time is at night, when I'm sitting in front of the computer or TV...some nights, I tend to want to eat anything and everything. I haven't been doing this lately, which is a good thing :)

    
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Registered: 07-24-2005
Thu, 07-28-2005 - 9:30pm

I have never linked my over eating with any hunger. In fact I don't believe I have ever felt hunger in my life unless I was on the other end of compulsive eating and that is starving myself. So having many snacks during the day healthy or not would certainly purge me into a binge. I have found out the more I play with food and I do call snacking playing...the more out of control I become. If I can place my eating to three meals a day with possibly a fruit in the evening I can have better control. I know that if I eat enough calories during my meal I can go 4-5 hours without food. If I want to eat food before those 4-5 hours its not hunger but head hunger that I am feeling. Even after realizing these things about myself I continue to at this time in my life binge and am miserable because of it. I feel I am living in this anger place with food. I don't want to except that what I have is a chronic illness and must be attended to each day with the proper nutrition. I don't like taking care of myself so I am living in this deinal about it all. But on the positive side these posts that I have placed today are bringing me back to the realization that this matter needs attended to, or the alternative is an earily death for myself through obesity related illnesses. Thanks for allowing me to verbalize my thoughts on snacking tonight.

...Pama

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Registered: 08-01-2005
Mon, 08-01-2005 - 2:21pm

You betcha.

The minute I walk in the door after work, I want to dive into the refrigerator and just eat everything in sight. My defense is to do something else right away... think about it before I come through the door... yes, I'm dense enough that this actually is successful (for now)!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 12:18am

After 8 pm.


Dh goes to bed and I just have an awful time staying focused. I would go to bed with him, but then I would be tossing and turning half the night because he goes to bed early. He is a morning person and I am an evening person.


The only other time I have a hard time is if I am not able to get home to eat lunch. Either I pick up a burger (wrong choice) or I wait and then

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Registered: 07-01-2003
Tue, 08-02-2005 - 3:42am

My worse time is just after work. I drive for over an hour in heavy traffic and the minute i step in the house, all i can think of is food. The more i think about it duting my way back, the more i want to eat once i arrive.
How do i deal with it? First i realised the trend (believe it or not, took me a lot of time to realize i was eating 1000+ calories in a 15 minute daily binge session). Then i took it slowly 1 day after the other. I prepare a healthy satisfying snack that would wait for me after i return home. Satisfying is a key issue here. Plain yogurt and whole fruit won't "satisfy" me, so i realised if it is full fat yogurt with added fruit is about 250 calories, but it is satisfying and would save a lot of binging. I also try not to stay a lot at home. Just drop my bags and go get my son. If someone else is with me in the house, i am less likely to binge.
It was hard at first and i still get the urge to binge like crazy sometimes, but i am "clean" for about 2-3 months now (with only 1 binge session). And it is not that hard now. Most of the days, i don't even think about it.

Mary
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