astillac's Journal, 15 March 2015

I understand what you are saying & can empathize. What has worked for me is making my food journal more like a food 'plan'. Sometimes I fill it out after each meal but often I update it at the beginning of the day. Regardless, I pretty much know what I am going to eat all day. I eat 3 meals a day and 2 snacks. My snacks are mid afternoon & after dinner. Night eating (sometimes binging) has been a problem for me, so I save my best snack for after dinner. It's usually Veggie Straws which a 130 calories, salty & crunchy. Why I think this curbs any temptation to binge is that throughout the day I know I have more food coming so I don't panic. If I get hungry or just feel like eating at 11AM, it's easy to resist because I know I can have lunch at noon. Also, I am eating a pretty good variety of low calorie food each day. My calories over the last two weeks are around 1100 to 1200 a day. Tomorrow is my first weigh-in after 2 weeks so I'll see what the scale reflects. While my weight has always been a challenge and creeps up, my problem is just overall large portions when I don't plan. I don't binge and no longer have the urge to binge. It's a relief. I also plan to start weighing only once a week to once every two weeks. If I obsess about the scale it leads to obsessing about food. That's when I get in trouble. Good luck.