I don’t know what it is but I rarely overeat during the day. I might occasionally have a big lunch, but I don’t really feel the need to hold myself back. Anytime after 4pm though, and I find myself easily swayed towards junk food of all kinds, sweet, salty and savoury. Either I’m not getting enough calories earlier in the day, or I have a tendency to fight exhaustion and stress with food.
Last night I got home after 7:30pm and my husband decided what he really felt like was a pizza. So he ordered his and I picked up my gluten free pizza on the way home. We ate at more or less the same time and I was careful to only serve myself half of my pizza, intending to have the rest today. However, I got to the end of my serving and I couldn’t help thinking “Is that it?” I knew I’d just had over 400 calories, but I was still craving more. So at first I tried distraction, watching TV while playing Sudoku, while next to me on the sofa my husband continued ploughing through his entire pizza. Then I thought putting all the figures into my food diary might help, so I did. Even though my calorie balance for the day was already over 1800, even though I had waited 20 minutes to let my brain register I was full, I still wanted more. So I served myself half of what was left, then thought “what am I going to do with one slice of pizza?” and took the last bit as well.
I was really tired as I’d had a workout earlier in the day, it was very cold out (cold weather makes you crave stodgy carbohydrates), and was feeling a bit stressed. So clearly there were a few emotional eating issues. At the same time, I’m not convinced that eating too much pizza was necessarily a bad thing in this instance as it did make me feel better, it’s a very occasional treat, and maybe my body really needed the carbohydrates. It’s all about balance.
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 2375.06 | 106.48g | 327.11g | 63.88g | 8.26g | 29.86g |
| 18% | 55% | 24% | 3% | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | 406 | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 07:15 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Mattesson's Turkey rashers | 3 rashers | |
| Mesa Sunrise cereal | 60g | |
| Alpro Soy milk | 120mL | |
| Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
| 08:15 | Black Tea | 500mL |
| 09:30 | Tempo run - 28 min | |
| 10:15 | Lemon lime Nuun electrolyte tablet in water | 750mL |
| 10:45 | Total Greek yoghurt | 125g |
| Sainsbury's frozen mixed blueberries and strawberries | 100g | |
| Sponser vanilla Recovery Shake | 20g (1 scoop) | |
| mixed with skim milk | 150mL | |
| 12:00 | Raspberry and Echinacea tea | 250mL |
| 13:00 | Heinz Beanz, reduced sugar and salt | 200g |
| Genius brown bread toast | 1 Slice | |
| Brussels Mini Paté Packs | 22g | |
| Raw tomato | 120g | |
| Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate | 20g | |
| 14:00 | Green Tea | 250mL |
| 16:45 | Brazil nuts | 6g |
| Cashews | 17g | |
| Pecans | 10g | |
| Black tea with milk and sugar | 300mL | |
| 20:00 | DS Mozzarella and tomato deep pan pizza | whole thing |
| Sainsbury's cooked ham slices | 60g | |
| Dole Pineapple slices in juice | 2 slices | |
| 21:00 | Cockburn's Special Reserve Port | 52g |
| Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew | 1 chew | |
| 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 pill |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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