Double personalilty when it comes to food - Diet & Nutrition Message Board

Hamer · 06-18-2004, 12:54 AM

When I wake up in the morning I always have an urge to eat healthy and nutritious. By lunch time I usually also want to eat healthy. But around 3:00 I want to eat lots of snacks and in the evening I eat like 3 dinners plus desert! What is wrong with me? I do so good in the morning, but at night time I'm eating everything in the house. Please give advice!

Laurie2 · 06-18-2004, 04:19 AM

Alot of people go through this. How long have you been on a diet?

Eating 5-6 smaller meals a day is the general course to take. This means eating about every three hours to keep your metabolism up and helping to keep the food cravings down. Eating more protein does help keep this down as the protein is a slower digesting food source and keeps that "full" feeling longer. Lowering your carbs and cutting the overly processed ones will help too. Eat more fiberous ones ("Veggies") and whole grains. Some fats are needed but not polyunsaturated ones. Cut any sugar and drink plenty of water.

If you have not been on a diet for long....it is a period of adjustment you are going through.

justme_ · 06-18-2004, 06:15 AM

You need mono-unsaturated fats? What's wrong with poly-unsaturated fats? I always knew you should try to get in unsaturated, and not saturated or transfats. But what's the difference between these two?

zip2play · 06-18-2004, 06:54 AM

Hamer,

I think you should go back to sleep at 3 PM and wake up to the healthy half part of the day again. (I'm sure your boss will understand

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I'm sort of the same way and really would benefit by a safe door on the kitchen with a timer lock to shut from 6PM til 6 AM! (or would I try buying nitroglycerine from ACE Hardware??

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auntjudyg · 06-18-2004, 07:43 AM

Hamer, I agree about looking into a lower carb plan. There are a bunch of plans that are structured slightly differently; it is interesting to read a number of them and see whether any of it rings a bell with you. Some do better on one plan than another. Even though you are eating "healthily", it could be something you are eating in the early part of the day is triggering eating later on.

justme, some believe that the poly fats are right up there close to the transfats in terms of the harm they can do to you. An interesting place to start learning about this view of fats is Weston A. Price Foundation literature.