Nighttime eating?  I still have this problem.  I am working on it but it is a real challenge.  Some nights I do great.  Tonight is not one of them.  I pretty much have resolve myself to I can not stop eating at night.  I just make sure I don't exceed calories and that is where exercise calories help a lot.  It it had not been for them, I would not be losing as much weight now.  I try not to eat more than half of my exercise calories but my nite time eating is making this impossible.  

I keep jello cups and pickles and this helps too when I get the munchies.  I like pickles but jello is just OK but it does the trick sometimes and it is only 5 calories. 

I am really not asking for suggestions, I know them all.  I just want to know if any one understands this issue. And have any of you given up on not eating at night and just choose wiser choices at night.  I know when I weighed in 500's I would eat fast foods late at night and then go to bed.  So I have come a long way, but sometimes I feel I should be able to stop eating after a certain time period.  Oh well and life goes on.  Thanks for letting me vent. 

I don't want to give up the fight but as long as eating very low calorie stuff is working for me, I just don't feel like I should continue to fret.  Your thoughts?  Please.  

Most recently being able to buy a bra/pantie set at Victoria Secret. I didn't think I'd ever be able to wear something from V.S.  I also love, love, love being able to cross my legs without pain. My favorite one is having people tell me that I've changed not just my appearance but how I interact and present myself to people. I hope I never get tired of having WOW moments.

Lose Twice the Weight by Tracking Your Food

Weight Loss News Flash

-- By Nicole Nichols, Health Educator

  You hear all the time that to lose weight, you should track what you eat. Well, a recent study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that keeping a "food diary" may double your weight loss efforts.

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research kept tabs on 1,685 overweight and obese adults (men and women), whose average weight was 212 pounds. The researchers encouraged participants to adhere to a reduced-calorie, DASH eating plan and asked them record their daily food intake and exercise minutes.

After 20 weeks, the average weight loss was 13 pounds per person. But researchers discovered something else; the more participants recorded what they ate, the more weight they lost in the end. Participants who did not keep a food diary lost about 9 pounds over the course of the study, while those *****corded their food intake six or more days per week lost 18 pounds—twice as much as those who didn't track any food!

Action Sparked: If you've ever doubted that using SparkPeople's personalized Nutrition Tracker would help you lose weight, think again! At SparkPeople, we've always encouraged daily food and fitness tracking for people who want to lose weight, and this new study supports what we've been encouraging for years. By tracking your food, you become more accountable: If you know you're going to have to record that candy bar on your food tracker, you might think twice before eating it. Plus, SparkPeople's detailed food tracker shows you exactly what you're putting into your mouth so you can make better, more informed choices.

This isn't news to the millions of people who have lost weight by tracking their food and fitness minutes on SparkPeople.com. Each month, over two million people utilize SparkPeople's free tools, Community, and resources to get healthier. And every day, our members track more than one million foods on their free Nutrition Trackers, making SparkPeople.com's food tracker the most popular in the world! It works away from home, too: SparkPeople's Nutrition Trackers is available on web-enabled cell phones.

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For me , I always ask for the dressing on the side . I never pour it on my salad . I stick my fork in the dressing , then grab the salad , Talk about cutting the calories .

I say no to desert ... almost always .
I say no to Milk ... Lactose intolerent .
I say No to soda's ... I tried them for a while and wondered why my stomach hurt all lthe time ,, "guess what ,.., SODA ..

I say no to most dry chicken . I need some sort of sauce to go with my chicken , or I am pukesville .


So what foods do you say no to ...
What good habits have you learned that you would like to share  ?


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