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‘Stop Eating After 7pm’ Challenge

Beelady said:
I can totally understand where you're coming from. As a youngster I lived with a bully of a father who, if you didn't empty your plate, would scream at you inches from your face threatening to thrash you. And he frequently did thrash me. He would cut thick very thick slices of white bread spread liberally with butter and covered with sugar. Hot milk poured over this and he would then insist that I had to eat a large bowlful before bed so that I didn't wake up hungry during the night. 70 years later, and old enough to know better, I actually go hunting through the cupboards for something to eat starting around eight o' clock.
I've been watching YouTube videos about TRE and I have very recently, less than a week, started to try to cut the habit and try to not eat after eight for at least 14 hours. Eating, for me, certainly is just a very bad habit. It's comforting and, having lost my husband of 37 years and my twin brother in nine months, and subsequently having to move out and sell my home, I am living with enormous stress having now been diagnosed with breast cancer last month.
In truth I am not really hungry. I think I feel happier when I'm eating. I do enjoy food but I'm at a loss on how to control this. Maybe an honest record of how we've manage to stop eating in the evening could benefit me? Count me in, please! I've always said that it's up to me to fix me and I think this might be helpful.
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You're all ready using some strategies. First is recognising its not real hunger but some emotional or habitual eating instead .
Second would be to post your eating times in here, and know that others see them. We're not judgemental, we've all been there too but somehow that 'accountability ' is enough, or at least a part of the strategy.
Another is to make sure you have a satiating enough meal. I like to finish with cheese, the fats are very filling. If my conscious brain knows I've been fed enough then it's less likely to try to tempt me with snacks.
Also believe that low carb works and appetite reduces so nothing more is needed.
Initially I liked the slightly hungry feeling I went to bed with. It showed me I'd successfully had an evening without snacks. It became even more rewarding as I saw the weight drop off. And, funnilly enough although I was a little hungry at bed time I was never hungry first thing the next morning... so I was never really hungry the night before, it was just habit?

I don't post on this thread often because it's such an ingrained habit now that I no longer even think about it.
Sometimes the next morning I don't need to eat for some hours so my fast has gradually increased over time.

Tonight I won't eat as I'm simply not hungry and it's 8pm already. I'll survive fine until tomorrow
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Beelady said:
I can totally understand where you're coming from. As a youngster I lived with a bully of a father who, if you didn't empty your plate, would scream at you inches from your face threatening to thrash you. And he frequently did thrash me. He would cut thick very thick slices of white bread spread liberally with butter and covered with sugar. Hot milk poured over this and he would then insist that I had to eat a large bowlful before bed so that I didn't wake up hungry during the night. 70 years later, and old enough to know better, I actually go hunting through the cupboards for something to eat starting around eight o' clock.
I've been watching YouTube videos about TRE and I have very recently, less than a week, started to try to cut the habit and try to not eat after eight for at least 14 hours. Eating, for me, certainly is just a very bad habit. It's comforting and, having lost my husband of 37 years and my twin brother in nine months, and subsequently having to move out and sell my home, I am living with enormous stress having now been diagnosed with breast cancer last month.
In truth I am not really hungry. I think I feel happier when I'm eating. I do enjoy food but I'm at a loss on how to control this. Maybe an honest record of how we've manage to stop eating in the evening could benefit me? Count me in, please! I've always said that it's up to me to fix me and I think this might be helpful.
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Welcome to this Stop eating after 7.00 pm challenge @Beelady. We're pleased you could join us.
 
And social life intervenes again.
Pub event so ate at about 19:45. Was still hungry when home again so cheese and seed crackers at 22:00.
At least its only every so often.
 
MrsA2 said:
And social life intervenes again.
Pub event so ate at about 19:45. Was still hungry when home again so cheese and seed crackers at 22:00.
At least its only every so often.
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That's the idea @MrsA2. Why not focus on all the evenings when you did indeed stop eating at 7.00 pm.
 
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