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I seem to be going backwards in the last couple of weeks and I am trying to work out what I am doing wrong. I never find the move into winter very easy to deal with, I definitely have less energy and enthusiasm and I also find that my appetite goes through the roof. It is so tempting to lie on the sofa watching a good dvd and craze at something tasty but I am getting really that all the hard work over the last few months will just slip away.
II constantly find myself craving bread – with a particular fantasy for cheese on toast coming into my mind at around 9 o’clock in the evening! In my more rational moments I know that even slim people have these longings and that the reason they are slim is that they don’t give in to them every time. However, in the heat of the moment all that goes out of the window and the whole success of my evening rests on me getting my fix of carbs.
I have worked out that one of the things that creates the 9pm craving worse is eating my evening meal around 6 o’clock. So, by the time it gets to 9 o’clock I am already feeling peckish and so finding the will power to say no seems so much harder.
So, from now on I am going to try and have my evening meal around 7pm and make sure I have lots of yummy winter veggies to fill me up. I am also going to keep a food diary to make m e more aware of what I am eating and why.
I also know that I need to get more comfortable with feeling hungry and to distract myself from those cravings by keeping busy and focussing my attention on things other than food. I know that it sounds corny to go and have a bath or cal a friend for a chat but it really works. It also helps me if I go upstairs so that the leer of the fridge is out of arms reach!
I have talked about porridge in a previous blog and I find it really helps to make me feel full for a few hours after breakfast. I am going to introduce a low fat yoghurt with a small amount of porridge and a few grapes at around 4 o’clock to help me reach my later evening meal time.
I am also going to make an effort to make homemade soups, adding extra pulses to make it more filling. I will try to have soup for lunch as this feels warm and comforting without eating too many calories. I have even brought a flask so that I can take it to work with me – how grown up is that!!
Does this seem like a plan? I really thing I owe it to myself to give it a dam good try.
