I know that I eat mostly out of habit. I can certainly cut down. I do not exercise enough to warrant the amount of calories I consume.
Breakfast, I will cut down on how much I put in the bowl. I usually have frozen berries with oatmeal, wheat germ and some soymilk. I will stay with this, just eat less of it.
Lunch, I’m usually okay with.
3:00 snacks get out of control: peanut butter (though the natural kind) is thickly smeared onto 4 pieces of high fibre crispbread. Overall, not a bad snack… but more than I need. I can scale back to 1 piece of bread with a little pb, which I know will satify me.
Dinner is a big problem though. I serve myself the same proportions as my boyfriend gets (who has a crazy fast metabolism). I need to take less, and eat slower… this will prevent me from eating beyond satiety. And I have found myself using more oil and cooking richer foods when cooking for him. Bad. Bad. For both of us. I do most of the cooking, so I have the control… just gotta take it.
I will also limit myself to having chocolate chips as a snack only when I am craving them.
Beer and wine are also high in empty calories. Just because they are in the kitchen does not mean that I have to drink them.
ugh.
((at least by writing this, I was able to avoid hunger-less snacking on some veg pate and crackers before bed!))
