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Author: Lorrie
Date: 10-19-03 14:55
Hey gang,
I am a night owl and I find that the late evening hours are the most difficult time to ignore my desires to eat...got any suggestions? Right now I take a cup of tea and sit in the bath with a good book. The bathtub is the one place I have never been able to eat. I'm getting pretty wrinkled though, so I could use some new ideas.
Lorrie
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Author: miranda
Date: 10-19-03 15:54
I find that in the evenings, if I brush my teeth, it cuts my appetite, probably because not much tastes good when it's mixed with toothpaste taste.
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miranda
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"I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway."--Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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Author: Gary
Date: 10-19-03 15:58
No-sugar-added frozen fruit bars - 25 calories each
No-sugar-added popsicles - 15 calories each
Healthy choice popcorn - 100 calories per bowl (1/2 bag)
homemade salsa without sugar is low in calories,
have with BAKED Tostito tortilla chips, 110 calories for 20 chips
with only 5 calories from fat
That's a few ideas for now, don't have time to write much more for now,
but if I don't check back on the list later tonight, then I'll probally check back tomorrow and try to remember to write a few more low-calorie snack ideas.
Gary 360/175/175
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Author: Donna
Date: 10-19-03 16:12
I make sure I can have a bag of popcorn everynight for those cravings. I get Orville Reddenbachers Movie theatre butter it's 227 calories for the whole bag. I don't eat breakfast so it's easy to work the popcorn in for me.
When I get the cravings I can't eat one thing, I need alot of it! So it's either the popcorn or cheddar cheese pretzels, 110 calories for 20 of them.
~Donna~
146~146~135
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Author: Fabulous@50
Date: 10-19-03 20:43
Suggest you get some "practical" weight loss books to read, or plop down in front of the computer with a LARGE water bottle (and chewing gum) and search the web for some inspiring weight loss stories and tips...there are hundreds of websites out there written by people who are in the process of removing weight--many are very interesting and motivating. Just make sure you avoid the sites that are pushing drugs and whacko diets (and there are THOUSANDS of those).
Fabulous@50
225/156/150
Program Start: May 12, 2003
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.”
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Author: Jay
Date: 10-19-03 23:35
Water . . . and lots of it. Oh, and find something to do that keeps you busy. Evening eating is almost always out of boredom.
Jay
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Author: marvelous momma
Date: 10-20-03 00:14
working to resolve this challenge as I write. I had two months of snack free evenings, but chose to stay up one night and started the vicious cycle all over. What worked for me during those two months was getting up early to exercise so by evening I needed to get some sleep. Contrar my post is at 2:00 a.m. and I opted to log on instead of eat. Early rise for me today by evening sleep will be more appealing than snacks
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Author: Otta-no-better
Date: 10-20-03 05:48
It's a habit I was unable to break so I just saved calories for the evening. I also made sure I had low cal snacks in the house. Not like last nights bagel!!
Yogurt was a favourite and fruit with ultra low fat cool whip.
Susan lost 40 lbs in 17 months
At goal, under 124 lbs since Sept. 10/04
Eat your protein, muscle is key
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Author: Niki
Date: 10-20-03 07:27
I totally understand how you feel. I have a pretty early bedtime, but we also eat dinner early too which leaves several hours before bedtime to sneak into the kitchen.
I would prefer not to eat anything at all and I find if I am busy with some kind of simple project, I can't get up and snack. - I knit.
Last night, I knew there was one of those Hagan Daas raspberry sorbet-yogurt bars left in the freezer (only 98 calories) and I knew it was being saved for me. I put off eating it as long as I could, then sat down at the tv for my Rob Lowe fix (I'm a child of the 80s, what can I say?) and picked up my knitting.
I got so wrapped up in my knitting, so to speak, that bedtime came and I hadn't had the chance to go to the kitchen and eat my dessert!
Knitting is easy to pick up and the bigger the needles, the faster the projects go, which makes it that much more fun (I knitted one entire sleeve in two hours last night).
Good luck :-)
-Niki
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Author: Lorrie
Date: 10-20-03 08:10
Wow!, you have given me such great ideas and inspiration. I'm sure to find a way out of my evening eating routine...thank you.
Lorrie
began 9/01/03
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Author: efs
Date: 10-20-03 09:23
This used to be a SERIOUS problem for me. Two things have helped to "fix" it...
1. I go to the gym at night, no food there!
2. Started a 7pm cutoff time for eating, couldn't have a bite after that time!
-Emily
efs 202/163/160
program start: Jan. 2003
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