Question about late day hunger

[BeckyinTexas 3]

I was wondering if anyone else faces this....I try to eat Breakfast and I can't get more than 2 bites to go down. lunch isn't much better, a two or three bites and I can't get any more down. But boy oh boy, when evening comes I feel like I could eat a horse! For some reason I can eat more in the evening and sadly I do sometimes. Does anyone else feel like this?

[HeatherGurl 0]

I do somewhat have this happen with me... I really have to have self control at night. Depending on what I eat for breakfast and lunch... it is usually 1/2 cup worth of food, but I am able to eat sometimes 2 cups of food at night. I have to make myself a small plate and stay out of the kitchen when I am finished with it.

[Marimaru 7]

I have this issue too, but sometimes I eat more for breakfast. I actually like it when I can't eat much breakfast and/or lunch because it leaves more calories for the evening, and I don't have to go so mad just trying to find things to keep me from eating. Hopefully that makes sense. In little steps my evening eating is less and less, but it's still there.

[NurseMichelle 0]

Night eating is so common for so many. The end of the day. The winding down time of all our stressors. I ran an overeaters Anonymous group for a while, this was everyones complaints. I think the allowing a snack and then staying out of kitchen is a good idea, and staying busy. I almost wonder if the reason the band seems tighter in the AM is because we are not as hydrated. As the day progresses and we drink drink drink our tissue stretches easier. Possible?? Thats my guess.

[Jachut 487]

I dont have a problem with night eating and never have. But late afternoon, look out.

The best way I find to control it is to eat proper meals for breakfast and for lunch - if I eat a proper breakie of say Cereal and yogurt I'll be stuffed all morning and wont really want lunch. But if I eat say a sandwich anyway, then I dont get the munchies in the late afternoon.

In short, proper eating. I'm really really really bad at not eating lunch but just grazing all day, its always been a problem of mine.

If I couldnt eat proper meals at breakfast and lunch and was consequently getting hungry later, i'd have fill removed, but that's just me. I'm fill phobic and think 90% of bandsters are too tight and can not be healthy long term on what they consume. Not that that's a judgement, everyone has to do it the way it suits them, just my opinion.

[BeckyinTexas 3]

I love this site simply because it helps you to know no matter what you might be going through...someone understands!

[NJChick 3]

Oh yes, thats me, although I can eat breakfast and lunch (just a little). When I told my doc about it, his reply was that it was mental and not physical... just goes to show you how misinformed they really are...goofball.

[urbrdfs 0]

Yep, that would be me. It would appear to me that obviously the band is simply "looser" in the evenings and very tight in the am. I was told it is best to wait until after noon to get a fill for that very reason.

[Iluvharleys 15]

I can eat more in the evening too! I eat breakfast, and lunch, but still can eat more in the evening.

[chabutter 0]

My jaw just dropped when I saw your weight-loss ticker ::wipes eyes:: can it be true?! Congrats

[waterlily1072 5]

I don't have restriction yet but in the evenings I can totally scarf on popcorn. I am trying to break that habit.

[BeckyinTexas 3]

Chabutter....I so needed to read that right now! I've had an awful week at home and work and when I went to weigh just a while ago the scale hadn't dropped in a week. But you just made me feel so much better!

I'm glad to know that others experience the same thing I do about night eating. I'm trying really hard to control it. But have to admit that's it's easier now than it used to be. Anyone that says we took the easy way to lose weight by getting the band doesn't know beans!

[sheryl 3]

Yup... That has been my life for the last 3 years... It took a while to get use to it. When I have a good restriction, I still can't eat a ton in the evenings.

This is why I still drink my Protein shake in the morning. The only other thing that I can get down is thinned-out oatmeal and I really want to stay away from the carbs. But in the evenings, I will have a nice dinner, but I try to finish at least 2 hours before bedtime. And if I need to snack in the late afternoon or after dinner, I have gotten into eating a small Fuji apple (they help with my sweet-tooth)...

[Marimaru 7]

Honestly, my only answer to this is to either be out doing something, be in the bathtub, or be prepared with lots of low calorie food. My freezer is full of frozen veggies, I have Jello cups in the fridge, I have lots of makin's for egg drop Soup (chicken broth, 25 cals per can, egg 75 cals, maybe a little corn starch), etc. That way, if I end up going nuts in the evening, it was lots of low cal stuff, instead of lots of low cal stuff on top of a high calorie meal. (Or lots of high cal stuff). I totally "went nuts" the other day, but still only hit 2000... and while I wanted to smack myself upside the head for it, it's really not THAT bad.