Help!, i am getting to grips with things through the day on this diet infact i am very good, but it all goes wrong in the evening, what with all the junk about, tins of chocs, alchohol, it keeps going wrong in the evening, i know its early days but i need some tips to avoid or atleast be able to reduce. the temptations.
i saw pics of myself some years ago and i looked amazing, people didnt beleive it was me....i nearly cried. but this time of year is sooo tough when trying to embark on a serious weight loss and healthy plan.
I need your tips, how do you cope at this time of year....i need to stay away from junk and want some healthy nibble options that wont wreck my good work through the day.
__________________ Amelia -Wife to James = parents to Hamish and Finley id twin boys 15/02/2004 To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
I have a little stash of healthy things like raw cacao nibs (raw chocolate which doesn't have all the fats and is healthy for you!), coconut bars or - when I'm organised which I ain't right now - I'll make lots of little bars using low GI recipes, usually based on oats with fruit/nuts added.... and when I'm hungry at night I have the stash!
With Rosemary Conley you get 150 cals a day you can spend on anything - even something fatty or whatever. You can save up 2 days worth and splurge. Allow yourself limited treats in other words...
Another trick I do is to not eat pudding after tea, then have the equivalent in calories when I get the munchies at around 9pm. A banana and some homemade yogurt is nice. I recently got addicted to that Greek Total yogurt which is strained natural live yog - the only problem being the price. So now I strain my own homemade yog - much cheaper and there's always 1KG of yog in the fridge!
Years ago, on another of her diet plans Ropsemary Conley researched and discovered that those people who followed her diet strictly with the allowance of a glass of wine a day - actually lost more weight than those who followed it but without the booze. Probably because they became more relaxed, so less likely to binge. Again, a small controlled treat won;t do you harm - it's when you feel deprived, you're more likely to binge! I lost my 40lb drinking wine all the time - but only one glass a day or go without a few days then have several! The weight came off at the same rate with or without the alcohol, so long as I exercised and was strict the rest of the time.
That's another one I did - 'buy' my treats in exercise minutes. So if you go a bit over - cool. Just add in more exercise or more demanding exercise the next day to pay for it!
My final one is - take up a hobby. I find I nibble less at night (and I can be good all day but come 9pm I'm rampaging!) when I'm knitting or sewing or something. Takes your mind off it. If you feel an urge, just ignore it for 5 mins and carry on doing what you're doing. Then ask yourself 5 mins on if you really wanted that whatever it is. If the answer's yes - go ahead.
I made one rule up and that was never to go to bed hungry. All this don't eat so and so after 6pm is clearly nonsense. What matters is what you eat over a 24 hr period - or a week. So if you have 'saved' cals to eat at 9pm - enjoy them!
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tips for avoiding or reducing temptation???? 
