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

[t--m--i.livejournal.com]

You could take up the dancing again that you said you were going to do when you stopped going running with us [VBEG].
The brutal fact is that a Forties-style figure goes with a Forties-style diet (alcohol on special occasions only, meat & 2 veg for lunch and dinner, no snacks) and Forties-level of activity (lots of walking to & from the shops because you ain't got a fridge, daily carpet sweeping, digging the allotment u.s.w). Yer pays yer money, yer takes yer choice. If you want the TV, the wine, the snacks, you have to take the figure that comes with it. Modern life sucks sometimes huh.