Eating way too much bread

So every day I eat roughly 1600 calories (including fruits, veggies, bread/oats, and meat)...until nighttime hits. Then all of a sudden I consume like 7 slices of bread...how do I stop these daily cravings?

By the way, my stats are 5'3", now a 5-lb gain to 113 lbs, and I set my activity at sedentary and run a mile or two every day to every other day.

white_sakura, I don't know your whole situation, but I think I can identify with you a bit. I'm pretty close to maintenance weight now, but I am skinny fat as well. I quite dislike it when people say I am already thin, why try to lose?, as I can see my poochy belly, even if they can't ;)

Sounds like you're in an emotional eating pattern. As soon as the sun goes down, 9pm hits, or whatever the trigger is,  you start feeling like you need to eat even though you've eaten maintenance already throughout the day. So you overdo it with the bread.

I can relate because (as an emotional eater), as soon as my kids got in bed for the night, I *used to* start looking through the pantry to see what I could eat, just due to habit or boredom, I suppose. Chips were my vice.

If you're hitting calorie goal during the day (a healthy maintenance one, or whatever), try keeping yourself occupied in the evening. Do something that takes you outside of the house or uses your hands so that your mind and body are too busy to think about bread.

Speaking of the bread, what if you keep it in the freezer? That way if you want some for a sandwich at lunch, it is a planned and deliberate decision to eat it, not based on a spur of the moment craving. Same for the nighttime habit. If you have to take it out of the freezer one piece at a time, waiting for it to thaw on it's own, it might give you the chance to realize that hey! You're not really hungry for all of that bread after all, and you can work through the craving.