Of all the Reasons to Overeat . . .

Well my calorie intake certainly didn’t improve yesterday. I was fine for most of the day, eating decent sized healthy meals and snacks as usual and not having too much trouble keeping the calories down. In fact I got to the end of dinner and found I’d had less than 1800 calories with over 26% from protein. So I decided to treat myself to one of the small packets of minstrels that came with the giant chocolate Easter Egg my husband got me on Saturday. At about 200 calories there was no problem there, but then I found once I opened up the chocolate taps I just couldn’t stop. Less than 45 minutes later I found myself breaking into the chocolate again, and this time I ate half of a large egg without hardly pausing for breath.

I do ascribe to the theory that we do not do things without a reason. If I felt the urge to massively overeat chocolate then something must be going on. I wasn’t hungry, and in fact I found the chilli I had for dinner quite filling. I wasn’t overly tired or recovering from a big workout as it was a rest day and I’d had a decent night’s sleep the night before. I was reasonably content, I’d had a good day, got some work done, did well on the rest of my food diary, so it wasn’t a bad mood thing. No, I think it was simply boredom. After dinner my husband started watching a sports program on TV I wasn’t interested in and I found myself a bit at loose ends. I didn’t feel like surfing the internet or playing on the computer, and I didn’t have a book on the go I could read. After sitting on the sofa and eating chocolate for a while, I finally had the idea to do my nails. Clearly boredom was the problem because as soon as I started doing something else with my hands, the craving stopped.

I think it’s time I had another look at potential hobbies and evening activities!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
2521.34	124.23g	298.13g	93.88g	0	27.96g
	20%	47%	33%
Calories burned through exercise:		Rest Day

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:30	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 Orange juice with juicy bits	200mL
09:30	Black Tea	350mL
10:45	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
	Brazil nuts	6g
	Cashews	17g
	Fresh pineapple	137g
12:15	Green Tea	250mL
13:15	Princes tuna chunks in water	63g
	with Hellman's Light mayonnaise	12g
	and Branston gherkin relish	10g
	on Genius brown bread toast	2 slices
	Waitrose Babyleaf salad	35g
	with Kraft Light Honey Mustard dressing	10g
	Irish Yoghurts Diet Strawberry	125g
	Strawberry lemonade Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	500mL
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
14:00	Black Tea	300mL
16:00	Sponser Protein Snack bar	1 bar
20:00	Homemade chilli	400g
	Sharwood’s plain poppadoms	2 poppadoms
	Skim milk	200mL
	Galaxy Minstrels	42g
21:00	Galaxy Minstrel milk chocolate Easter egg	100g
22:30	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.