Comfort eating

[tinyjo]

I'm going have a week of trying really hard to apply the Weightwatchers programme this week - I need to remind myself that when I do it properly I can actually lose weight. One of the things I've been having problems with in the last couple of weeks particuarly but also generally is comfort eating. Or not exactly comfort eating but I've been finding that I get home and have dinner and a glass of wine and then what seems to happen is that I feel tired and perhaps a little bored and just want to sit in front of the TV with another glass of wine and perhaps a toasted pitta or bakewell tart. And then repeat for the next 3 hours or so.

So my question is have you got any suggestions for things I could try instead. I need something with fairly low barrier to entry (as it were) as it's difficult to get myself started but once I'm going I can get re-energised fairly quickly. Ideally it should also be something that I don't do just sitting down in the living room, at least for the moment as I currently associate that with relaxing with wine, pittas, etc. Any ideas?

Also, as support is so important ( :) ) I thought I'd organise a pub meet tonight. Far from the Madding Crowd? (Or Copa, but they have more tempting food) from around 5:45? Comment now and I'll txt white_hart after lunch with the conclusions.

Comments

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Eating later might work, although I'd have to try to move my lunch as well I think - I tend to eat that comparitively early so get hungry correspondingly early. What I tend to find is that after I finish dinner I'll think "oh, I'll just have a bakewell for dessert" and that's where it starts.

Actually, something that I hadn't thought about until I said that was that Alex and I eat our dinner on the sofa in the living room. I wonder if moving that to the dining room would help me to have a clearer distinction between eating time and the rest of the evening.

I see Bethan can't come this evening. Do you want to meet up for a quick one anyway?

[white_hart]

Yes, if the problem is less snacking-after-dinner and more dinner-morphing-into-all-evening-grazing, I would think that giving dinner more definition would help. We normally eat at the kitchen table anyway, because I don't really like eating off my lap (too easy to end up covered in sauce, I find!), but it does mean that sofa=somewhere you go after dinner is finished.

Happy to meet up if you are - FFtMC, then?

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yup, sounds good to me.