Just practicing a little yelling. I've stumbled upon "Yell at Your Fat"
-- a weight loss podcast from someone who lost 139 pounds and started a
podcast to help others. They're very good and I've already listened to
3 episodes since finding her yesterday. She set out to make 139
episodes, but unfortunately there are only 14. I wish she'd continued.
In any case, one of the things she reminds people of is WE are not
fat. Fat is a substance that's attached to our body, but it's not who
we are. You can hate the fat, you can want to get rid of the fat, but
you can't hate yourself or feel badly about yourself for simply having
this tissue attached to your body.
Most of the podcast is actually her just talking to us, pouring out
things she's learned and offering tips and suggestions along the way.
But she does intersperse funny bits of actually yelling at her fat and a
segment from the motivational monster and even a segment that her dad
does to introduce cool products and other things to help you along the
way.
What I found really encouraging is that she is vegan, and she offers her
opinions on how it will be easier to lose weight if you cut out animal
products, but she's not the least bit preachy about it and you certainly
don't have to be vegan or even vegetarian to enjoy her podcast.
Anyway, I have been working out at least 3 x a week with the trainers,
and during the day when I'm at work my eating has been really good and
healthy -- but evenings are still a problem for me. Work is so crazy
busy that I don't have time to even think about food -- it can be 3:00
before I even remember to eat lunch. But the time between dinner and
bedtime is a real problem for me. I'm not sure what I should do, but
I'm thinking I'll go back to having the same thing for two meals a day
(breakfast and lunch) which is my blueberry banana oatmeal breakfast and
a big bowl of home made veggie soup (very low calorie) for lunch. I
can easily toss together a huge pot of it Sunday afternoon and freeze
half so I've got it available for lunches. For dinner, I'll toss
together a big pan of vegan lasagna or something that I can get a good 5
or 6 serves out of and just freeze portions again. I don't mind eating
the same thing every day if it's something I like, and this way it will
be portion controlled and easy to heat up after my workouts. If I can
do this, then I won't always be planning and thinking about what I'm
going to eat, so that helps. And if I enlist hubby's help to ensure
there aren't snackable items available in the house then even if I do
get a craving in the evening, I won't have anything but low-cal veggie
soup available to me.
Wish me luck.
Posted By: Anna down under
Comments to this post:
06/04/2011 04:27
Night Eating
I have the same issue. So, I work with it. I eat really healthily during the day and basically save up about 900 calories for dinner and snacking at night. I eat a good dinner and then I let myself have about 2 big bowls of popcorn with a tbs. of parmesan cheese on it. If I can't stop eating at night, I get out of my apartment and take a walk. Removing myself from the source of food normally helps a little. Good luck!
Since I've already worked out before dinner, and it's winter here (too cold and dark to go out and walk in the evening) I'm thinking I might hang on to this idea for summer months. For now I think I'll just try really hard not to have temptations in the house.. If I want to eat badly enough, then I'll have to be willing to choose something healthy anyway.
I don't know if you've looked at my blog or downloaded the 117 page PDF of meal, dessert, and snack ideas with recipes. If you haven't please see the PDF file at www.TheEzekielDiet.com
A couple suggestions from the information I read in your last post.
First would be a pure brand of Hoodia for evenings and while you're trying to transition to healthy eating. It works great, completely kills the appetite. It works on the part of the brain that controlls appetite, not your nervous system like phen phen or ephedra. See information at my blog at: http://www.extrapounds.com/blog/LAPD/comments/510763/hoodia-gordonii-hype-or-help
Next, for that period of time after dinner and before bed, try a soy nutrtion bar. They're mostly protein, the one I recommend are only 140 calories and seem to fill the need with hot tea and stevia.
And, the most important key point...it's not the meat that makes you fat, as stated by the vegan. It's the polluted processed food supply. Please take a minute and see the 3 posts I made about "Why You Have Trouble Losing Weight" at:
Then scan through my whole blog. It's absolutely full of information designed to expose numerous lies, conspiracies, and myths about weight loss.
I lost 100 pounds in 150 days without exercise. I also work in an office behind a desk all day. I didn't even believe what I did was even possible. The weight loss defied everything I thought I knew about weight loss.
I did have a quick look at the PDF document and I didn't see any vegetarian options. I am a strict vegetarian (what I refer to as almost vegan because I will make occasional exceptions, e.g. if something has a small amount of dairy or egg in it and I'm somewhere there are no other good options) so I couldn't eat the meat called for on this plan. Do you have a vegetarian option available? I'd be interested in reading about it if you do.
I appreciate your information, but I'm still not going to eat meat. I could show you research and videos from Drs McDougall, Esselstyn and Fuhrman (among others) showing a definitive link between eating animal products and all the diseases of the western world, but I'm betting it wouldn't convince you to go vegetarian any more than you'll convince me to start eating meat.
