Well thank you for your help, I appreciate it. Also, there has been a change in my schedule. I now work from 6 am. Now I'm hungry AND tired.
Sorry it's taking me a while to get back to you regarding your last message. I've been pretty busy with a number of things lately, but I'm going to try and sit down tomorrow and come up with some ideas for you to help you work eating a bit better into your schedule.
Eating in the morning has just always made me feel queazy no matter what it is. This is a typical day: 5:30 : wake up, 5: 35(ish) : shower 5: 50 : get dressed, pack school bag 6:00 : leave for work 7:00 : work Then it can go to ways 11:00 : finish work 11: 45: driving lesson until 1:45 OR 1:00 : finish work 1:45 : make salad, scarf down 2:00 : go to bus stop 2:10 : get on bus 2:45: get off bus, walk to school 3:00: catch up on homework, read, go online, snack at some point 5:45 : head to class 6:00 : class starts 9:00 : class ends, (sometimes earlier) go to bus stop 9:30: get on bus 9:45: get off bus, get ride home (because my town bus doesn't run at that time) 10:00 : get home, make dinner, eat 10:45 - 11pm: go to bed EXCEPT mondays, I start class at 4pm and finish at 10pm, so I don't get home until around 11
Ok, sounds to me like not being able to eat enough/often enough might be a factor here. Could you give me a sense of how your day is usually spread out: what time you typically get up, eat, go to school and all of that stuff. I just want to be able to track it in my head so I can get an idea of how often you're eating throughout the day. As for the fruit, I'm not surprised that fruit alone won't fill you. If you can manage some meat for snacks, some chicken or ground beef or something, they'll actually leave you feeling full longer. Basically anything with some good fat in it. It'd probably be a bit easier if you liked some kind of nuts or seeds though since they're easy to transport and don't take much space, but I'll try and think of some other alternatives. As for breakfast, is it just some things that make you feel queasy, or eating anything at all? Maybe you could make some bacon to take with you and eat a little later after you've had time to wake up fully?
Yes it's mostly just meat with dinner. I don't eat breakfast because it makes my stomache queazy. I have to wake up early and leave and I don't get a break at work unless I work an 8 hour shift (which I don't) then I barely have any time to make lunch so I just make a salad or whatnot. Because of my bus schedule I have to leave at 2pm so I snack alot and I usually don't get to dinner until about 9:30-10pm. I'm usually extremely hungry between lunch and dinner and it's getting really annoying. Fruit don't seem to fill me up and I have limited lunch box space and I'm not to sure what to pack. There's a cafeteria here with restaurants but it's mostly foods like pizza.
You should find you not only feel full longer between meals, but that you'll lose weight more quickly. You can even try weighing yerself before during and after. Don't worry about portion sizes or calories too much right away either. Just focus on only eating those foods and see how it goes. For the sake of yer sanity though, feel free to pick at least one meal during the week to treat yerself to whatever, even if it's spaghetti with ice cream for dessert. Also keep in mind that when you cut out grains, you'll probably go through a period of withdrawal where you really start to crave them, but try and stick with it and see how you do without them. The cravings will pass, and if all goes well you'll lose some weight in the process. A lot of people just can't handle eating grains at all without gaining weight. I seem to be one of them for the last few years so I know how you feel.
Some pieces of chicken breast would probably be easiest. The upside to eating more meat as well is that the extra fat from the meat will actually help fill you, and keep you feeling full longer. I actually ate some ground beef, and some carrots with Caesar dressing for lunch about 3 hours ago and I still feel full. And it was not what most would consider a big meal by any stretch. I'd also like you to try an experiment if you can. Try cutting out any sort of grain product for a week, in addition to the usual cutting out junk food filled with sugar. So for a week go without any sort of bread, crackers, granola, oatmeal, or any of those sorts of foods if you can. If you can make it two weeks that'd be even better. Just stick to the basics of meat & eggs, some fruit and vegetables, and things like olive oil or some salad dressing on yer salads.
The crackers and granola bars may actually be part of the problem, and bread or pasta if yer eating any of those. Are you eating meat with every meal and snack, or mostly just with dinner and the like? And are you eating breakfast as well? Sorry if it seems like I'm asking a lot of questions but I'm just trying to narrow down things that might be preventing you from losing much or any weight. I'd say yer doing pretty well on the exercise front. Far better than most people for sure, so it's probably diet related. I'd say try to make sure you get some meat (or eggs) in with every meal and snack. What I would usually do is either toss a small glass of milk (just not chocolate milk) in with my snacks, or heat up a small container of ground beef. It doesn't take much to fill you with a small snack between meals so a package of it goes quite far. Also make sure to add some sort of protein to the salad. I'll post the rest in two more posts. Stupid 1,000 character limit.
Well it's a 40 minute walk to work and another 40 back. Not to mention another 20 going to and from school. I'm mostly eating fruits for snacks or crackers or granola bars. Dinner mostly consists of something with ground beef because it's fast and I'm short on time lately. Salad for lunch usually.
What sort of things are you eating, and what are you doing for exercise? How often do you exercise as well?
