So i ate all my calories today and I just want to EAT EVERYTHING right now! stop me!!!!!
Reason: Moved thread to Health and Support
Stop!
Brush your teeth or chew some gum.
Take a sleeping pill, lay down and say good night, last 30 minutes and your home free!
Eat something.... So what if you ate all your calories? You're obviously still hungry. If you had a healthy but filling snack you could finish the day feeling happy & satisfied rather than in a state of hysteria. You don't have to 'binge'... a bowl of soup, a quick omelette, a slice of toast with some peanut butter, a banana. Eat it slowly. Savour the flavours. You don't need 'big food' to match a 'big hunger'.
Original Post by gi-jane:
Eat something.... So what if you ate all your calories? You're obviously still hungry. If you had a healthy but filling snack you could finish the day feeling happy & satisfied rather than in a state of hysteria. You don't have to 'binge'... a bowl of soup, a quick omelette, a slice of toast with some peanut butter, a banana. Eat it slowly. Savour the flavours. You don't need 'big food' to match a 'big hunger'.
Oh, my god. I wish I would have read that before I ate my weight in dry oatmeal
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Seriously? Dry? (Yuk)
BTW... I read your other post on the motivation board. Learning to eat healthily and control your weight is a just that, a learning process. A big mistake is to go all out ... slashing calories, radically changing your diet and expecting too much in a short space of time. I know you have a birthday coming up and feel under pressure to see some results. But, like putting a learner driver behind the wheel of an F1 Ferrari... it's too overwhelming all in one go and you only end up feeling like a total failure
Tomorrow, try to take things a little more gently. Maybe go with two simple challenges to kick off with... First... to eat 5-a-day fruit and vegetables. Second.... to have a portion of wholegrains at each meal (wholemeal bread, brown rice, wholewheat pasta etc.) Don't aim any higher for now. When you get to the end of the day and you've met your aim (regardless of anything else that happens) then you'll feel a sense of achievement that you can build on.
Next day you keep the first two challenges going and you work in another one ... eg. having just one sugary snack during the day, or drinking 1 - 2 litres of water. Aim not to go hungry at all and snack regularly. By gradually swapping bad habits for better habits and sustaining it you can make a massive difference.
Once you'd got that kind of thing going for a week or so then you add in some exercise or you can start addressing the portion-sizes. Gently, gently... and then you might not feel the need for the dry oatmeal.
