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Struggling with the food...

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

...ahhhhhh!

I have been solid with the gym! I am doing strength training (heavy weights, actually shocked at what I am lifting) three times a week, cardio for 45 minutes on lifting days, 60 on non-lifting days. I have added some new, more challenging exercises to my routines to keep it interesting.

However, the food sucks. Well not toally, but enough to stall my weight loss so early in my adventure to locate my inner bad-ass.

I am tracking my calories using My Net Diary iPhone app. I have it set to lose 1.5 lbs a week, and I figured the other .5 lbs I hope to lose a week will be lost through the abovementioned exercise. I'm eating around 1650 calories a day, and trying not to eat back any of what I lost through exercise.

I am eating lots of protein, my goal is to surpass 120g/day. Lower on the carbs, most of that is coming from fruits and veggies and the 2-3 servings I am having of whole grains.

I am STARVING! But am I really hungry or wanting to binge eat (yeah, I have that problem too)?

Last night I ate two servings of trail mix and two bags of quakes, so about 520 calories I didn't need or plan for, just before bed, virtually undoing the hour of cardio I did that AM.

This is so frustrating. I gotta get it together. Any suggestions, as this eating/drive to eat usually happens at night? Any ideas would be appreciated.
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RHEYNKLAW 12/12/2012 10:41AM

    It is common knowledge among my in-person peers that I am a snacking fiend and general eating machine: I eat every 2-1/2 to 3 hours. I'm also never ravenous and feeling "desperate" to shotgun everything in sight unless I skip -- then all bets are off. If you don't already, try spacing your meals at regular intervals, even if a "meal" means a quick and simple granola bar and piece of fruit.

Also, it's almost impossible to calorically overeat vegetables, so clean and cut a ton of carrots, peppers, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, etc. to have on hand for when you just can't stand not to munch. 100 calories worth of veggies take up a lot more space in your tummy than normal packaged snack foods do, and you need the fiber and micronutrients anyway.

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GYMRAT_AT44 12/12/2012 10:03AM

    Good advice above, and here are a few more tricks.

Review your eating times, you truly may be hungry because of the last time you ate, etc. Adjust your eating times to accommodate.

Adjust your food intake to allow a late night snack of greek yogurt with granola or fruit or protein powder added - it will only be around 150-200 calories, so make small adjustments throughout the day to allow that later in the evening.

Do something with your hands that would prevent them from having food in them - reading, sewing, sparking, etc.

And of course, brush your teeth or chew on spearmint gum.

Good luck.

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ANDREAG89 12/12/2012 9:55AM

    I can lend some empathy - when I work out that hard, I tend to be a lot hungrier, too.

The eating/drive to eat at night might be staved by reaching for a hot drink - herbal tea, lowfat hot chocolate. The heat of the drink make you take it slow (unlike trail mix), and I find that putting something hot into my stomach sometimes fills me up. Maybe the preparation of the tea or hot chocolate will help sort of calm you, too, get you "wound down" so to speak, before bed time...??? If not a hot drink, nonfat Greek yogurt is filling and loaded with protein. Promise yourself that whatever you crave canNOT be from the pantry...??? It's too easy to reach for something pre-wrapped, I know that to be true.

Great job on the workouts and tracking your intake! I look forward to the days when I get motivated enough to work out like that!
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