Bad time of Day

[Guest guest]

Hi,

I am only a few chapters into IE but really getting a heck of an

education. I was initially concerned about breaking the " diet mentality "

after 61 years, but it definitely feels possible.

My MAIN eating " problem " is the clock. I get up each morning at 5:00am

work on the computer, walk the dog for one hour, have a piece of ww

toast then go about my day. The problem is that I am happily retired

and not matter what I had

done that day (golf/working out/shopping/writing)- at 2:30 or 3:00 I

start grazing. By 5:00 I want a glass

of wine and 'something' - which is usually nuts.

I have been attempting to force myself to stay away from the kitchen for

a couple of hours in an attempt to prolong the inevitable. So at least

I am now getting exercise walking the distance between the two :-)

I'm pretty sure this is not the correct attitude to be in when it

comes to IE.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Lois in Arizona

[Guest guest]

Hi Lois,

I'm a retired gal too and have had similar reactions. One of the

things I've discovered about myself is that I have gotten what I want

in my life mainly by sheer drive and determination. Yet when I

'retired' wanted to feel that I could relax and not have to be so

focused all the time. Added to that the fact that I had more time to

not only eat, but prepare my favorite goodies too, well weight gain

doesn't sound too unreasonable does it?

I too discovered that I was reacting to the clock more than what my

body hunger was. Interesting to me is readying how you start your

'grazing' at about 2 or 3 pm. I experienced that too! At first I

thought it was due to association - that was my childhood after-school

snack time which held me until dinner (5-6 pm). Later as I played

around with re-discovering how long different foods 'held' me, I found

that because I was eating 'light' in the morning, for sure I had real

hunger by afternoon. Hubby and I had tried to switch eating our

'dinner' to an early afternoon time so that we could better eat to

satisfy our hunger, but the results was we both got hungry in the

evenings! And then there was snacking anxiety.

Lately I've been eating something light and quick with my coffee (7

am) and then having a more 'solid' something about 11-ish (sandwich or

late breakfast) and that holds me until dinner time (4-6 pm depending

on what we are doing that day). Another reason that the early dinner

didn't work for us was that either one or both of us were usually in

the middle of something in the afternoon so stopping to eat just

didn't happen. Talk about OVER hungry come dinner time - yikes!!

I encourage you to keep reading and maybe try some experimentation

with foods for yourself. It can be fun too really.

Best to you, Katcha

IEing since March 2007

>

> Hi,

>

> I am only a few chapters into IE but really getting a heck of an

> education. I was initially concerned about breaking the " diet mentality "

> after 61 years, but it definitely feels possible.

>

> My MAIN eating " problem " is the clock. I get up each morning at 5:00am

> work on the computer, walk the dog for one hour, have a piece of ww

> toast then go about my day. The problem is that I am happily retired

> and not matter what I had

> done that day (golf/working out/shopping/writing)- at 2:30 or 3:00 I

> start grazing. By 5:00 I want a glass

> of wine and 'something' - which is usually nuts.

> I have been attempting to force myself to stay away from the kitchen for

> a couple of hours in an attempt to prolong the inevitable. So at least

> I am now getting exercise walking the distance between the two :-)

> I'm pretty sure this is not the correct attitude to be in when it

> comes to IE.

>

> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

>

> Lois in Arizona

>