Care to join my no eating after 7 p.m. (EDIT) or 3 hours before bed thread?

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

Fleur De Guerre said:
I'll join your no eating after dinner thing, I am too prone to going back to the fridge. But the after 7, 8, or even 3 hours before bed rule might be unworkable for me since I sometimes get home from work so late I don't eat till 9!

Great, more support! You can eat dinner, of course, but no dessert!

TheKitschGoth · Aug 10, 2007

Count me in, though I think avoiding snacks is going to drive me mad..

Naama · Aug 10, 2007

My goal was not eating after 5pm! But actually, most often I don't have the time to eat before 5pm..... So, yes, I broke with that. Now I try not to eat just too late, but if I eat sauerkraut or such things, I try to eat them as late as possible lol

But you know, I think it's this inbetween eating. I lost lots of pounds just eating 3 meals a day and for snacks only vegetables or fruits (but be carefull with fruits either, they have lots of sugar!)

Naama

Archie Goodwin · Aug 10, 2007

After Katrina

Just about two years ago, Hurricane Katrina came through and wiped out the bridge I use to get to work every morning. For about 5 months after the storm, my two hour round trip to and from work turned into something more like 4 to 6 hours. Yeah, really, there is a point to this, and it even ties in to what ya'll are trying to do. I was getting home at 7 or 8 or sometimes 9. I was tired when I got home, and I had to be back up at 4 to get to work on time. So, I started skipping diner all together. I ate breakfast, I ate lunch, and that was all, and I started losing weight. I lost about 50 pounds in less than a year. I still try to skip dinner most nights, and I am keeping the weight off, and maybe still losing a little. Good luck to all of you who are trying.

CherryRed · Aug 10, 2007

For anyone interested in loosing weight the healthy way, read this thread.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=376786&posted=1#post376786

scotrace · Aug 10, 2007

Avoiding eating 3 hours or so before bedtime is the single most effective thing a person can do to begin losing some extra pounds. So says Oprah.

And it does work. Substitute water for snacking. One of those huge Bladder Buster plastic cups you get at the fast food joints (where you have a salad and giant iced tea, mind you) is ideal. Fill it with ice and water and sip it instead of reaching into a bag of pork rinds.
I've been observing this rule more or less successfully for more than a year. Sometimes I have a little low-carb ice cream - and so what? Absolute self denial breeds resentment of the regimen, which makes one more likely to grab the 1 pound bag of M&M's at the checkout line. It's easier to know you could cheat, but smile to yourself when you realize you don't have to.

Feraud: Yay us! Calories don't mean squat, so have your nightcapS.

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

CherryRed said:
For anyone interested in loosing weight the healthy way, read this thread.

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=376786&posted=1#post376786

Not snacking after dinner is very healthy.

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

scotrace said:
Avoiding eating 3 hours or so before bedtime is the single most effective thing a person can do to begin losing some extra pounds. So says Oprah.
And it does work. Substitute water for snacking. One of those huge Bladder Buster plastic cups you get at the fast food joints (where you have a salad and giant iced tea, mind you) is ideal. Fill it with ice and water and sip it instead of reaching into a bag of pork rinds.
I've been observing this rule more or less successfully for more than a year. Sometimes I have a little low-carb ice cream - and so what? Absolute self denial breeds resentment of the regimen, which makes one more likely to grab the 1 pound bag of M&M's at the checkout line. It's easier to know you could cheat, but smile to yourself when you realize you don't have to.

Feraud: Yay us! Calories don't mean squat, so have your nightcapS.

What do you mean calories don't mean squat??

I don't know that 100 calories eaten right before bed will be digested differently enough to make a difference in weight than 100 calories eaten at noon (I've found differing views on this), but I do know, and I think we all agree, if you eat a healthy balanced diet during the day, and then have a bunch of non-essential calories before bed, it can't be a good thing.

I agree about self-denial. I know for me right now, though, I'm better off not snacking at all. In no way am I on a starvation diet. Also, I don't want to do this forever. Just enough to break my bad habit.

scotrace · Aug 10, 2007

PrettySquareGal said:
What do you mean calories don't mean squat??

Feraud and I observe a diet that makes calories irrelevant, as long as they aren't coming from sugars or carbs. So in theory, we could have some cheese and a few olives with the nightcap. But better to just drink a lake of water.*

* Well, yeah - you'll have to pee like Secretariat when you wake up.

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

scotrace said:
Feraud and I observe a diet that makes calories irrelevant, as long as they aren't coming from sugars or carbs. So in theory, we could have some cheese and a few olives with the nightcap. But better to just drink a lake of water.*

* Well, yeah - you'll have to pee like Secretariat when you wake up.

Gotcha. I thought maybe Oprah had a new diet I missed.

Feraud · Aug 10, 2007

scotrace said:
* Well, yeah - you'll have to pee like Secretariat when you wake up.

Sometimes I dream about having to take care of business. lol

I have always been a nightbird and most hungry in the evening. 7 p.m. is way too early for me to stop eating. 11 or so is more reasonable. The low carb diet works well with my lifestyle and schedule. As long as I keep the carbs to a minimum I can maintain a decent weight.
Hurrah for low carb cocktails! :cheers1:

CherryRed · Aug 10, 2007

PrettySquareGal said:
Not snacking after dinner is very healthy.

I didn't mean to imply that it was...just wanted to let everyone know about the other thread in the event they were interested in doing more..

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

CherryRed said:
I didn't mean to imply that it was...just wanted to let everyone know about the other thread in the event they were interested in doing more..

Understood.

pretty faythe · Aug 10, 2007

Eecchh, I hate plain water! Much prefer something liky Wylers Light Lemonade, no calories! Yes, the desert rat hates water, bad desert rat, tsk, tsk, tsk! And I really should do the no munching too, I really don't do it too often, usually if I do, its popcorn, a healthy wholegrain in that I share with the offspring.

Laura said:
No eating after 8pm for me! I just have a big glass of water when I feel hungry after 8pm! Thrist can often be mistaken for hunger! Well so they say!

Good luck all! xxx

Leading Edge · Aug 10, 2007

Fleur De Guerre said:
. . . the after 7, 8, or even 3 hours before bed rule might be unworkable for me since I sometimes get home from work so late I don't eat till 9!

I share the same circumstance. I often get home around 10:00 - 11:00 pm. After taking care of greeting, feeding, and walking the kits and pup, I settle down to eat with the evening news or Jay Leno. To make it worse, since I am tired and it is late, I will order home delivery. Translation: way too much of something similar to meat that has been is so minimal that it has to be dredged and redredged with some type of nutritionally zero carbohydrate mix of seasonings and chemicals to compensate for there being no flavor left which is then fried.
*sigh* It sounds stupid now while I'm on vacation, but when I come home late like that after a day that began around 4:30 am and a job so fraught with frustration takes it takes 150% at least, it doesn't sound so brain dead stupid.

Archie Goodwin said:
. . . I was getting home at 7 or 8 or sometimes 9. I was tired when I got home, and I had to be back up at 4 to get to work on time. So, I started skipping diner all together. I ate breakfast, I ate lunch, and that was all, and I started losing weight. I lost about 50 pounds in less than a year . . .

I considered that, but never tried it. I eat so little at breakfast, drink too much coffee during the day, and often skip lunch all together. With that pattern of eating and working, I thought not eating something as a dinner meal would contribute to the growing burnout.

I remember experts advising three main meals and two snacks. Guess I thought two and a lot of coffee was equivalent. Hmmm, maybe not.
I can see myself skipping dinner, maybe replacing it with water and a soothing preparation-for-sleep ritual if the downside is acceptable.
Has anyone else tried skipping dinner after a long day at a draining job?

GoldLeaf · Aug 10, 2007

No snacking before bed is easy - I don't have unhealthy food in the house. There is nothing to tempt me. A year and a half ago when we decided to quit smoking, I told the hubby "no more junk food in the house," because he does the grocery shopping.

I still gained 10 pounds, but I was a little on the thin side anyway. I actually like having some curves! Totally flat bellies be darned, I have a tush! If I want something to eat after dinner, I have to work to find something readily edible to snack on, it just doesn't exist. Everything we have needs to be cooked, which is a deterrent to snacking.

But now with the baby, I eat frequently. I eat smart, though, which does help. Most nights I have been ok after dinner, but the past couple of days I have been STARVING about two hours after a meal. I think the baby is going through a growth spurt. I ate a bowl of cereal last night, and was still famished after! I didn't eat anymore, but I was so darn hungry!

I woke up very, very hungry. After two bowls of cereal, I had to quit eating and get ready for work! I ate a banana in the car and yogurt a little later.

So, after the baby is born, I pledge to join

I just can't right now, I think my stomach would digest itself, hehehe

carter · Aug 10, 2007

And where is my free coffee?!

It's in the pot in the kitchen. Which is the 2nd pot today,
Mine's strong, black, and unadulterated in a EurOair France mug.
Can we have PIE NOW?

PrettySquareGal · Aug 10, 2007

carter said:
It's in the pot in the kitchen. Which is the 2nd pot today,
Mine's strong, black, and unadulterated in a EurOair France mug.
Can we have PIE NOW?

:eusa_doh:

Miss Dottie · Aug 10, 2007

OK count me in for not eating after 7:00PM.

Also, I'm trying to stay away from sugar and most flour products to boot.

And exercising too. Bought some rollerskates to get around on my pancake flat island that I live on. Hurrah for Alameda!

PrettySquareGal · Aug 11, 2007

I'm on night two and behaving!

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