I have struggled with this for years.
I don’t necessarily sit and eat bars of chocolate or crisps- it can be normal food as it were (yoghurts, bread, cereal etc but would concede it’s much more carby than my normal intake so it’s not all hunger based) but it’s the volume that is the issue.
I’ve been trying to set a calorie target and I’ve sort of stuck to it (fading a bit after a few weeks) but in order to hit it I have to eat almost nothing in the day so I save it all for the evening.
I realise this is very unhealthy and unsustainable and it’s the evening I need to tackle.
If I eat less in an evening I often find I’m lying in bed with a very definite hungry feeling in the pit of my stomach although interestingly if I hold off I’m often not hungry again by morning.
I’ve got the point where I don’t feel hunger even eating almost nothing all day but then even after a healthy protein and fat packed high fibre evening meal I just can’t settle without constant grazing. I drink water or fruit tea and distract myself but feel what I recognise as hunger late into the evening even if it actually isn’t- thats how it feels.
It’s psychological but seems to have some physical side effects now (as above re being satiated at night).
Has anyone tackled this?
Eating more in the day makes no difference at all and just leaves my overall intake higher.
Hoping for some breakthrough!
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Shedpaint · 24/08/2020 14:43
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