Waking in the nite
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Carol122201
Cathlete
If you're waking up hungry, I would try eating a light protein snack a couple of hours before you go to bed at night. Protein takes longer to digest, and will help you feel more full. This is one of tricks they teach us in WW. Hope this helps! By the way, don't eat in the middle of the night! You're right - it won't help your weight loss efforts. And, eating carbs like that defeats the whole purpose. If you eat carbs and then go right back to sleep, your body has next to nothing to use all that instant fuel on. They'll get stored, not used. You know where all that storage eventually ends up. In the fat cells!
Carol
Carol
Carol122201
Cathlete
Well, I don't honestly know. Maybe you aren't eating enough? I ate less than that every day while in the active phase of WW, but I never woke up in the middle of the night hungry. You workout out a lot. Maybe you just need to eat more during the day? I'll be interested to see what advice others on here have.
Carol
Carol
mogambo
Cathlete
Why don't you try calorie staggering? It helps me a lot. This way, some days I'm hungry, some days not. It's easier psychologically, keeps your metabolism from going into starvation mode and allows you some days of normal eating. I've lost 9 lbs doing this and was already an acceptable weight.
Your calories average out to 1500, say, but they vary. For example, what I do in a week is:
1200,1500,1800,1200,1500,1000, 2200. This allows me to lose a about 5 lbs a month. It averages to about 1500 a day, but is a lot easier for me. The website I used for the information is:
www.allyourstrength.com/nutrition_1202_cs.html
Your calories average out to 1500, say, but they vary. For example, what I do in a week is:
1200,1500,1800,1200,1500,1000, 2200. This allows me to lose a about 5 lbs a month. It averages to about 1500 a day, but is a lot easier for me. The website I used for the information is:
www.allyourstrength.com/nutrition_1202_cs.html
mogambo
Cathlete
Well, as for the numbers, the ones on the website were for a 200 lb man who wanted to lose 20 lbs. His numbers were 1200, 1500, 2000, 1200, 1500, 1000, 3500. No way I'm eating 3500 and blow the whole wad.
I did the math for mine, but the numbers were so low I knew I would really have to suffer a lot and I didn't need to lose much weight so all I did was lower the amount on the guy's high days. Now my average calories for each day are around 1475 instead of the 1100 their math suggested. And I've been losing a pound a week anyway, which is fine by me. I work out 6 days a week with Cathe mostly, a little running, a little random other stuff. I am 5'7 or 8, don't know how much I've shrunk at 46. I weigh 131/132 and am aiming for 125, which may realistically not be attainable, but I'm very happy with this method.
I think you'd be very safe to just use my numbers. It was all an experiment for me too!
I eat low carb. On the two higher days I eat a lot more carbs. Actual sandwiches! Cream of rice cereal!! Sweet potatoes!
I am mostly vegan, but do occasionally eat meat (once a week or less, usually in a restaurant), and often eat eggs (free-range and organic). I use a lot of tempeh, tofu (now they have a low-fat tofu), soy protein powder, soy yogurt, brewer's yeast, beans and hard-boiled eggs. One thing I eat on low calorie days is home made black bean burrito filling using lettuce leaves instead of tortillas. So, although I am not following a diet in particular, I am getting a lot of success, like everyone else in America apparently, with cutting out most of my starchy foods and loading up on non-starchy vegetables and hi-protein foods. I eat piles of vegetables.
Good luck, and ask any more questions if you have them. I'm really excited about this surprise weight loss for me and I hope it can help you too.
Liane
I did the math for mine, but the numbers were so low I knew I would really have to suffer a lot and I didn't need to lose much weight so all I did was lower the amount on the guy's high days. Now my average calories for each day are around 1475 instead of the 1100 their math suggested. And I've been losing a pound a week anyway, which is fine by me. I work out 6 days a week with Cathe mostly, a little running, a little random other stuff. I am 5'7 or 8, don't know how much I've shrunk at 46. I weigh 131/132 and am aiming for 125, which may realistically not be attainable, but I'm very happy with this method.
I think you'd be very safe to just use my numbers. It was all an experiment for me too!
I eat low carb. On the two higher days I eat a lot more carbs. Actual sandwiches! Cream of rice cereal!! Sweet potatoes!
I am mostly vegan, but do occasionally eat meat (once a week or less, usually in a restaurant), and often eat eggs (free-range and organic). I use a lot of tempeh, tofu (now they have a low-fat tofu), soy protein powder, soy yogurt, brewer's yeast, beans and hard-boiled eggs. One thing I eat on low calorie days is home made black bean burrito filling using lettuce leaves instead of tortillas. So, although I am not following a diet in particular, I am getting a lot of success, like everyone else in America apparently, with cutting out most of my starchy foods and loading up on non-starchy vegetables and hi-protein foods. I eat piles of vegetables.
Good luck, and ask any more questions if you have them. I'm really excited about this surprise weight loss for me and I hope it can help you too.
Liane
I used to do this. It started when I was pregnant, continued through nursing and then just plain continued. You guessed it...habit. Honestly, if you're getting enough calories during the day and doing the high protein snack before bed then I'd seriously consider it a habit issue that needs to be broken. My biggie was a granola bar with some milk (I LOVE milk!).
JMHO from one that's been there.
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JMHO from one that's been there.
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Well, it just might be habit although it doesnt happen all the time, I'll go awhile with it not happening and hten Boom! for a week I'm up every nite. Anyway, this staggering is very interesting to me so I'm gonna give it a whirl along with the lower protein. As you said, everyone else in America is doing it so I might as well join the bandwagon. Thanks!